Financing ISIS Below the Rio Grande

August 3, 2016 ...   RED FLAG [WARNING]

"Worse Than Ransom: $400 Million in Cash from U.S. to top state TERROR sponsor"

• Cash makes tracing proceeds to end receivers extremely difficult.  

• "What will IRAN do with $400 Millions in euros, Swiss francs and other currencies flown to Tehran on a cargo plane?"  ANS: Whatever Iran wishes.
  

• P.O.T.U.S. and his State Department will have plausible deniability if some portion of it is sent to Venezuela under the guise of sorely needed "food assistance", then funneled off to support Latin American versions of ISIS.

 December 28, 2016 ... 

"Spanish Military Report: Islamic Terrorists Operate, Raise Cash in Latin America to Attack U.S."

• "Venezuela, Mexico, Peru and Chile also have large and rapidly growing Muslim populations. Trinidad and Tobago, Caribbean islands on the northern edge of Latin America, are identified as “especially worrisome” because local authorities reported that 70 of their citizens traveled to Syria and Iraq to join ISIS."

• The report cites a 2012 article in a military publication from Trinidad that compares the growth of radical Islam in the country to a group of violent Muslims that tried to overthrow the government in 1990. 
  

•  "The top Al Qaeda leader in Mexico was identified in the State Department records, via a September 2004 cable from the American consulate in Ciudad Juárez, as Adnan G. El Shurkrjumah. ...  [B]efore he died Shukrijumah helped plan several U.S. attacks, including plots to bomb Oprah Winfrey’s studio and detonate nuclear devices in multiple American cities."

Submarines are always silent and strange. 

Dismiss China Strategy No Longer

Background (Timeline)

Beset by internal strife, China abandoned its naval efforts, and by 1500, it was a capital offense to build a seagoing junk with more than two masts.

March 1997 -  The People's Liberation Army Navy (PLA) Navy's makes its first voyage with port visits including Mexico, Peru, Chile.

May 15, – September 23, 2002 - PLA Navy's first circumnavigation of the globe.

May 10, 2007 - Now, you are starting to see what has really been behind the U.S. policy on Mexican immigration. Were China to garner a foothold in Mexico, Canada, or South America, the current Taiwan standoff could become weakened in China's favor. Vigilis

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M.E.:  When will a Chinese aircraft carrier first dock in Mexico?

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Updates (Current Facts, Events and Quotes)

December 10, 2012 -  According to a Congressional Research Service report on Chinese naval modernization, the PLA Navy comprises 275 vessels: 75 warships, 60 submarines, 55 amphibious ships and 85 small missile boats. The U.S. Navy has 285 ships and submarines.

September 2012 - The PLAN commissioned its first aircraft carrier, the 74,406-ton Liaoning.

June 25, 2013 - American strategic influence would be confined "east of the Pacific midline" as it is displaced by Chinese power throughout East Asia, including Australia. China’s goal is to force the U.S. out of the Western Pacific. - Col. Lui Mingfu, PLA’s National Defense University.

June 25, 2013 - "For years the Chinese have condemned countries having overseas bases. ..We have seen ship visits but we haven’t seen efforts to build and sustain a base overseas. Someday that may come. ... I think we could do with fewer carrier battle groups and putting that money towards attack submarines fleet, which is of primary importance, he said. That is America’s sharpest weapon.” - Lyle Goldstein, Associate Prof., China Maritime Studies Institute, U.S. Naval War College. 

September 3, 2013 - In the first visit of the Chinese navy to Argentina, a Chinese navy fleet set off for Chile, Brazil and Argentina.  - The Global Times

 

September 5, 2013 - "The quest for global naval power runs parallel to competition for control of markets in Latin America.. The two largest world economies, the United States, and China are vying for control of these markets.  ...China has sought to be the prime lender in Latin America, loaning $110 billion dollars thus exceeding the World Bank’s contribution for the past two years."  - Terence Rosenthal, China’s Pivot to Latin America, Center for Security Policy, September 5, 2013

Submarines are always silent and strange.