November 2, 2008    ECrisis points our an analysis of Iraq's recent self defense activities with a series of raids across its border with Syria to end cross-border death raids and coordination by the deadly Al QAEDA and Hezbollah-backed anti-freedom militants. Read the whole article here and consider the parallel situation on March 1, 2008 when the FARC's multi-year, multi hectare, multi-million dollar intelligence plantation, bought and paid for, inside Ecuador to protect the FARC intelligence center, ended....for now.
 
But Ecuador's Rafael Correa remains angry that Colombia exercised its legal option to take out these narcoterrorists who consistently attack Colombia and Correa is angry that his little protection racket, one of many many such efforts for profiteering from crime, was exposed. And Correa wants to tell you that the US CIA was -shock!- involved. To be clear, the US CIA is part and parcel of anti-freedom surveillance and intelligence gathering, when it works. Mostly the US CIA's actors across the Andes are some of the agency's worst- fools who actually spend most of their time doing nothing but supporting the anti-USA regimes and creating more havoc while pretending to be honorable. The U.S. military is a different organization and while linked through the U.S. Department of State correctly does not trust nor appreciate the dishonest US CIA which has been infiltrated by global leftists under the John Deutsch-Clinton-Soros plan of 1996 to 1999, notably last seen giving one half of Colombia away to the FARC to make George Soros and his drug running support political project feel happy.
 
But instead of appreciating his Russo-Iranian-Chavista US CIA strategic narco-state building support comrades, also called fellow travelers and more correctly called traitors to the USA, Correa now attacks the US CIA as somehow complicit in the dazzling light show that triggered Raul Reyes to blow himself up on his own land mines on March 1, 2008, leaving no bomb crater and no proof that any bombs were detonated. Correa dishonestly claims that Colombia and the US CIA bombed the FARC intelligence operations inside Ecuador.
 
Iran and Syria, and their Lebanese soul mates- also called Hezbollah's minions of deceit, many of whom are winging their way across the Andes as we write this, were not happy that the Iraq-U.S.  forces, after much time expended by Iraq-USA on "diplomatically" requesting of the dishonest Iranian-Syrian-Lebanese militaries, also called narcoterrorists and terrorists for dictatorial Iranian-Marxists, saw a technically and legally correct raid inside Syria's "sovereign" lands to take out the Syrian base camps currently running death raids in and out of Iraq from inside Syria and Iran.
 
This story got almost no media attention across the USA because both Iraq and the USA acted legally, just as Colombia, teamed with the USA on 3-1-08 acted legally. But Rafael Correa cares nothing about the facts or legalities in his unending dishonest effort to manipulate reality. Rafael Correa today simply cannot control himself because he has spent years manipulating, controlling and lying when in fact he needed psychotherapy. Today Correa is run amuck and has no hold on reality.
 
Regarding the recent cross border raid, "On October 26, American special operations forces conducted a cross-border raid into Syria to kill an al Qaeda leader.  That raid sent at least two messages: the U.S. will pursue its enemies no matter where, and Baghdad should embrace the U.S.-Iraq security agreement.

The raid sent a direct message that the U.S. or other affected nations have the right to pursue terrorists inside sovereign countries when hosts like Syria provide the killers sanctuary....The target of the American raid was Abu Ghadiyah, an Iraqi leader of a cell of foreign fighters in Iraq who has been living in Syria.  He served as al Qaeda’s head of logistics in Syria since 2004, where he has provided foreign fighters entering Iraq with passports, money, weapons, guides and safe houses. 

Sunday’s operation in Sukkariyeh, a Syrian village six miles inside the border, came in the wake of recent statements by U.S. Maj. Gen. John Kelley, the American commander in western Iraq, that the Syrian border was an “uncontrolled” gateway for fighters entering Iraq.  Kelley indicated that U.S. intelligence believes al Qaeda operatives and others `… live pretty openly on the Syrian side.' Sukkariyeh “… was a staging ground for activities by terrorist organizations hostile to Iraq,' said Ali al-Dabbagh, the Iraqi government spokesman.  He said Iraq has repeatedly requested that Syrian officials hand over insurgents who used that area as their base.  But Damascus has done little to plug its porous border with Iraq or turn over terrorist killers to Baghdad. Predictably, Syria condemned the raid without admitting responsibility for hosting the terrorists.  On Monday, Syria’s foreign minister, Walid al-Moallem, accused the U.S. of “terrorist aggression” in the raid.  `This is an outrageous raid which is against international law,' said Sami al-Khiyami, the Syrian ambassador to London. But cross border raids are justified by international law -- despite Syrian protests -- because Damascus continues to harbor terrorists.  Much as the Bush administration has authorized military operations inside Pakistan’s Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) in order to kill and capture terrorists, American commanders in Iraq are now using the same authority to pursue terrorists inside Syria. Both the Syrian and Pakistani governments are either unable or unwilling to root out terrorists, and their inaction has prompted the U.S. to act.  A 1999 U.S. Defense Department’s General Counsel assessment of legal issues has interpreted international law to authorize unilateral action under these circumstances.  That view was outlined by the Bush administration after the September 11 attacks and again last month by President Bush at the United Nations General Assembly.  `As sovereign states, we have an obligation to govern responsibly, and solve problems before they spill over borders,' Mr. Bush said.  `We have an obligation to prevent our territory from being used as a sanctuary for terrorism and proliferation and human trafficking and organized crime.' This interpretation is consistent with Article 51 of the United Nations Charter, which permits self-defense.  It has been used by Israel to legally conduct a hostage-rescue mission at Entebbe airport in Uganda in 1976 and by Turkish troops pursuing Kurdish terrorists operating in northern Iraq. Such operations as the one into Syria, argue U.S. officials, are intended to protect Iraqi and American lives from infiltrating terrorists.  But instead of doing the responsible thing and shuttering its terrorist sanctuary, Damascus has used the raid as an opportunity to politically attack America. That country’s foreign minister denounced the raid as “cowboy politics,” and Syria’s ambassador to the U.S., Imad Moustapha, alleged the raid was a political move by Washington to help Republicans in domestic elections."
 
If you are getting the creepy feeling that Rafael Correa is taking his Talking Points directly from Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's chock full of nuts script writers you would be correct. That eerie feeling that Correa and Syria-Iran are saying the same things that Correa is saying is real because....those are the facts.

Syria, Lebanon and Iran are proxies for Russia. Russia has just signed on new proxies, thanks to Fidel Castro's team of losers in Cuba, to include Venezuela, Nicaragua, Bolivia and Ecuador.

Ignoring UN Charter Article 51, ignoring the Vienna and Geneva Conventions and ignoring the facts of his own state-backed criminality is what the manipulative, dishonest Rafael Correa does. In this case, Correa sounds exactly like the Russo-Iranian liars angered that Syria saw a few global terrorists taken out. This is what manipulative addicts do: they justify their own failures by blaming all others, still not delivering anything honest with their own days.
 
We will say it again: Alvaro Uribe did nothing wrong to help disable by personnel removal, also called FARC terrorist death on their own land mines, of the FARC intelligence center inside Ecuador. What we do not know is WHY the US CIA and the US Department of State are still so in love with the narcoterror bloc of nations to legalize and ship drugs to make the do drugs George Soros-US Democratic Party happy, chock full of money laundering speculators- also called Russian spot oil traders in London, and off-the-books-wealthy, sometimes called "Sovereign Investment Funds" also called national budget open wallet graft. We would like to know why these rogue U.S. actors are so determined to assist these Andean cartels to destabilize and criminalize the Andes through active, dishonest and manipulative lobbying, propaganda and paid infiltration.
 
Ecuadoreans should demand that Correa enroll in Alvaro Uribe's psych wards for dishonest, manipulative Andean souls who think that narcoterror and living la vida manipulativa is a good idea. Otherwise, Correa should resign....or do the perp walk for his role as global criminal cartel leader.
 
Here is Correa, looking again and again like a drug cartel used car dealer at a Mexican casino for resort vacationing mafia capos, stealing from the always incompetent, incredibly stupid Spanish-Argentinean state-backed REPSOL. We say that REPSOL is incredably stupid, and deserves a shareholder law suit, because REPSOL refused any due diligence and believed that Correa, like Chavez, would exempt them if they kept their mouth shut and paid bribes- lots of bribes to Quito just as PetroBras and Trafigura always always do. REPSOL: is so stupid they did not know they were being kicked out and whined that the last time they saw Correa's team, they were soothed in to believing, also called manipulation by Ecuadorean liars- a now standard application of Ecuadorean non ethics as taught inside each and every household, tricking REPSOL's agents to believe that their "deals" were being worked out:
 
               
Correa insiste: “Repsol se va del Ecuador”
 
Correa durante su Programa “Dialogo con el Presidente” de hoy celebrado en la provincia de Esmeraldas - Foto: Prensa Presidencial   - NOTICIAS 24

 
Correa has performed this identical kick-out of anything legitimate or even remotely resembling on the books business with Ecuador, also called global standards for rule of law. This includes a growing list such as the Pinto businesses, Catholic church holdings, newspapers previously independently owned, Chevron-Texaco, Occidental, Banco de Pichincha, the Isaias family holdings, and scores of others, leaving a small but dirty deal with Petrobras and the overwhelming fact that only Trafigura-PdVSA, Russo-Iranian cartels and Petroecuador [ itself a criminal joke] are left. Correa has assiduously raided Ecuadorean private businesses in order to prop up his own money making monopolies and business interests with Chavez's criminal cartels. Why the United States thinks this is a great thing remains a mystery to us all.
 
Today, Ecuador has pronounced all terror groups have safety and standing inside Ecuador. Like the Drug Kingpin that he is, Correa takes his Talking points against Uribe, Colombia and the USA from the identical Russo-Iranean-Andean propaganda mill.

-Pedro Camargo for ECrisis