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<DIV><B>Subject:</B> US and Colombia plan to attack Venezuela </DIV></DIV>
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<DIV class=articleTitle><STRONG>US and Colombia plan to attack
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<DIV class=articleAuthorName>by Eva Golinger</DIV><BR></TD></TR>
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<DIV align=justify>Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez denounced this
Saturday US plans to attack his country and overthrow his government.
During a ceremony celebrating the 227th birthday of Independence hero
Simon Bolivar, Chavez read from a secret memo he had been sent from an
unnamed source inside the United States. </DIV>
<DIV align=justify>“Old friend, I haven’t seen you in years. As I said to
you in my three prior letters, the idea remains the generation of a
conflict on your western border”, read Chavez from the secret missive.
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<DIV align=justify>“The latest events confirm all, or almost all, of what
those here discussed as well as other information that I have obtained
from above”, the letter continued. </DIV>
<DIV align=justify>“The preparation phase in the international community,
with the help of Colombia, is in plain execution”, manifested the text,
referring to last Thursday’s session in the Organization of American
States (OAS), during which the Colombia government accused Venezuela of
harboring “terrorists” and “terrorist training camps” and gave the Chavez
government a “30-day ultimatum” to allow for international intervention.
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<DIV align=justify>The letter continued with more details, “I told you
before that the events wouldn’t begin before the 26th, but for some reason
they have moved forward several actions that were supposed to be executed
afterward”. </DIV>
<DIV align=justify>“In the United States, the execution phase is
accelerating, together with a contention force, as they call it, towards
Costa Rica with the pretext of fighting drug trafficking”. </DIV>
<DIV align=justify>On July 1, the Costan Rican government authorized 46 US
war ships and 7,000 marines into their maritime and land territory. </DIV>
<DIV align=justify>The true objective of this military mobilization, said
the letter, is to “support military operations” against Venezuela. </DIV>
<DIV align=justify><STRONG>ASSASSINATION AND OVERTHROW</STRONG> </DIV>
<DIV align=justify>“There is an agreement between Colombia and the US with
two objectives: one is Mauricio and the other is the overthrow of the
government”, revealed the document. President Chavez explained that
“Mauricio” is a pseudynom used in these communications. </DIV>
<DIV align=justify>“The military operation is going to happen”, warned the
text, “and those from the north will do it, but not directly in Caracas”.
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<DIV align=justify>“They will hunt ‘Mauricio’ down outside Caracas, this
is very important, I repeat, this is very important”. </DIV>
<DIV align=justify>President Chavez revealed that he had received similar
letters from the same source alerting him to dangerous threats. He
received one right before the capture of more than 100 Colombian
paramilitaries in the outskirts of Caracas that were part of an
assassination plan against the Venezuelan head of state, and another in
2002, just days before the coup d’etat that briefly outsted him from
power. “The letter warned of snipers and the coup”, explained Chavez, “and
it was right, the information was true, but we were unable to act to
prevent it”. </DIV>
<DIV align=justify><STRONG>US MILITARY EXPANSION</STRONG> </DIV>
<DIV align=justify>This information comes on the heels of the decision
last Thursday to break relations between Colombia and Venezuela, made by
President Chavez after Colombia’s “show” in the OAS. </DIV>
<DIV align=justify>“Uribe is capable of anything”, warned Chavez,
announcing that the country was on maximum altert and the borders were
being reinforced. </DIV>
<DIV align=justify>Last October, Colombia and the US signed a military
agreement permitting the US to occupy seven Colombian bases and to use all
Colombian territory as needed to complete missions. One of the bases in
the agreement, Palanquero, was cited in May 2009 US Air Force documents as
necessary to “conduct full spectrum military operations” in South America
and combat the threat of “anti-US governments” in the region. </DIV>
<DIV align=justify>Palanquero was also signaled as critical to the
Pentagon’s Global Mobility Strategy, as outlined in the February 2009
White Paper: Air Mobility Command Global En Route Strategy, “USSOUTHCOM
has identified Palanquero, Colombia (German Olano Airfield SKPQ), as a
cooperative security location (CSL). From this location nearly half of the
continent can be covered by a C-17 without refueling”. </DIV>
<DIV align=justify>The 2010 Pentagon budget included a $46 million USD
request to improve the installations at Palanquero, in order to support
the Command Combatant’s “Theater Posture Strategy” and “provide for a
unique opportunity for full spectrum operations in a critical sub region
of our hemisphere where security and stability is under constant threat
from narcotics funded terrorist insurgencies, anti-US governments, endemic
poverty and recurring natural disasters”. </DIV>
<DIV align=justify>The May 2009 Air Force document further added that
Palanquero would be used to “increase our capacity to conduct
Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR), improve global
reach…and expand expeditionary warfare capability”. </DIV>
<DIV align=justify>In February 2010, the US National Directorate of
Intelligence (NDI) classified Venezuela as “Anti-US Leader” in the region
in its annual threat assessment. </DIV>
<DIV align=justify>The US also maintains forward operation locations
(small military bases) in Aruba and Curazao, just miles off the Venezuelan
coast. In recent months, the Venezuelan government has denounced
unauthorized incursions of drone planes and other military aircraft into
Venezuelan territory, originating from the US bases. </DIV>
<DIV align=justify>These latest revelations evidence that a serious, and
unjustified conflict is brewing fast against Venezuela, a country with a
vibrant democracy and the largest oil reserves in the
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