An Ethiopian terrorist captured in Ecuador was engaged in the traffic of undocumented migrants. The character, named Yaee Dawit Tadese, was deported in March to the United States. He is said to have links to Al Qaeda (something that hasn't been independently confirmed) and reportedly committed one attack in Pakistan in which 38 people were killed.

The illegal migrants came from Somalia, Bangladesh, Eritrea and Kenya. They used to arrive in Ecuador via Cuba or Venezuela, after a long journey that passed through Iran.

Presumably, the man had two motivations for engaging in the commerce of illegal migrants: to collect large sums of money for his organization and build networks of possible collaborators for the plans of that sinister terrorist group.

It is known that trafficking in undocumented migrants is as profitable a business as prostitution or drug trafficking, activities to which it is usually linked, of course. On the other hand, Al Qaeda does not much trust its few Muslim-American contacts or affiliates because it cannot be sure whether they are moles placed by the FBI or the CIA, or if, quite simply, those sympathizers are infiltrated and surveilled by U.S. counterintelligence.

That it why it prefers to create its nuclei of collaborators with some of those foreigners whom it “plants” in various parts of the world and provides with forged identities and documentation.

It has been said that Al Qaeda collects funds and recruits symps on the Triple Frontier separating Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay, a no-man's-land that justice cannot reach. It has been said that it “launders” money in Panama and Ecuador, two countries whose currency is the dollar.

It is known that the government of Venezuela, whose president, Hugo Chávez, is the top admirer of Carlos Ilich Ramírez, “the Jackal,” is an accomplice in all the extremist and fanatical Muslim causes, Al Qaeda among them, and that its disciple Daniel Ortega is Qaddafi's revolutionary executor in the region. What is not at all clear is the reason for that behavior.

What's the connection between a Marxistoid Latin American collectivist with the perturbed confusion of Bin Laden and his mad friends and ideological cronies? Al Qaeda is built on an absurd political nightmare: the conviction that a secret conspiracy exists between Jews and Christians, headed by Israel and the United States, to destroy the Muslim world.

Starting from that harebrained belief, Bin Laden and his henchmen drew up four objectives: to expel the Westerners from the Middle East, destroy the State of Israel, restore the Caliphate that in Medieval times united the Arab people around Islam, and recover Al Andalus (Andalucia) in southern Spain, where in 1492 the Moors lost the Kingdom of Granada, the last Islamic state in Europe.

Chávez, Castro, Ortega, Correa and Morales hallucinate in a different range. Their madness is different. They believe they have been called to build 21st-Century socialism, to triumph where the Soviet Union and the European communists failed. Their war is not exactly Al Qaeda's or Hamas' or Hezbollah's, but they somehow feel an affinity for those terrorists or agree with them. They perceive them as allies, because they think they have a common enemy: U.S. imperialism.

If fact, the leaders with that political tendency have only one point of contact with Al Qaeda: anti-Americanism. But even on that point the Muslim fanatics differ from the Chávez-minded Latin Americans.

Bin Laden and his tribe really desire and seek the disappearance of the State of Israel, but if the Americans leave the Middle East, the likelihood is that the Islamists will gradually renounce anti-Americanism. From Chávez's viewpoint, however, triumph will not be definitive until the United States is sunk.

Bin Laden struggled against the new Crusades. Chávez and his combo do so to defeat Yankee imperialism. They are odd bedfellows.

Source: www.firmaspress.com