January 26th 2010 - In the story below, lawyer and chief-editor Eva Golinger - who's very well informed concerning Latin America, and especially her native Venezuela - describes clearly how the US/UK cartel's armed forces keep attacking Venezuela too. And as usual with Dutch 'help' - from the nearby colonized islands Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao, where the US has bases too. And of course also Belgian and other of the usurped NATO's criminal assistence again by the umpteenth illegal invasion of another sovereign country. All for power, profit and hegemony...
US military aggression escalates against Venezuela in 2010
"Correo del Orinoco International" - 22 Jan. 2010 - Recent violations of Venezuelan airspace by US military combat planes and drones (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) evidence the escalation in provocations against Venezuela and the danger US military presence in the region represents
During a live television broadcast on the evening of January 8, President Hugo Chávez revealed that at approximately 12:55pm earlier that day, a US P3 combat plane took off from the air base in neighboring Curaçao and entered Venezuelan airspace during a 15-minute period. Two Venezuelan F-16 planes intercepted the foreign military aircraft, prepared to escort it outside Venezuelan territory.
“When the F-16 planes attempted communication with the US aircraft, it immediately took off towards the north, but later it returned”, announced President Chávez. He said that at 1:37pm Venezuelan time, the combat plane returned and flew for about 19 minutes inside Venezuelan territory. “It was escorted out and pressured by our F-16s, we didn’t have to bring in the Sukhois”, added Chávez.
The Pentagon has denied violation of Venezuelan airspace, yet the Venezuelan military has video and photographic images of the US combat plane incursion yesterday. Venezuela’s Foreign Minister, Nicolas Maduro, met with the Charge D’Affairs at the US Embassy in Caracas, John Caulfield, to discuss the matter. But Washington maintained its lack of knowledge of the incident.
Just days earlier, Venezuela’s Vice-President Ramón Carrizalez had publicly denounced the intromission of a US military plane also originating from the air base in Curaçao during 2009.
The governments of Washington and Holland denied the violation, only recognizing one incursion of a US plane in Venezuelan airspace during 2008.
Carrizalez revealed an audio recording between the Venezuelan airport control tower and the US pilot while inside Venezuelan air-space. The pilot stated clearly that he was flying a US Navy military plane stationed at the base in Curaçao. He claimed ignorance as to the violation of Venezuelan territory, stating he was “unaware” he had entered an unauthorized zone. But the US military plane hadn’t just merely crossed a border that some might argue is difficult to visualize.
The pilot had flown over a strategic Venezuelan military base on La Orchila, a small island off Venezuela’s northern coast, well inside Venezuelan territory.
THIS WAS NOT AN ISOLATED INCIDENT
Since 2008, Washington has been increasing its military and intelligence presence on the small Dutch island of Curaçao, where it maintains a Forward Operating Location (FOL) since 1999.
The original contract between Holland and Washington stipulated use of Curaçao for counter-narcotics operations. But since September 11, 2001, Washington began using its military installations around the world to combat “terrorist threats” and threats against US interests, and in some cases, such as in Curaçao and Aruba, violating the terms of previous military agreements that only authorized counter-narcotics or humanitarian missions.
By 2006, US operations from Curaçao were not just US Air Force counter-narcotics missions, but a clear presence of US Navy, Marines, Army, Special Forces and CIA had taken over the tiny Caribbean island.
Together, the US military and intelligence com- munity components were conducting joint exercises and operations to combat a “potencial threat in the region”. At the same time, the Bush Administration was trying to brand Venezuela as a state sponsor of terrorism, despite the lack of any evidence to back such a dangerous accusation.
The arrival of US aircraft carriers, war ships, combat planes, Black Hawk helicopters, nuclear submarines, and thousands of troops to the waters of Curaçao to participate in “joint exercises” caused alarm in the region. Commander Thomas K. Kiss of the U.S.S. Stout, one of the war ships that docked in Willemstad during Spring 2006, declared to the Curaçao press on April 11, 2006, “...we are the most powerful Naval force in the world and the US will defend its friends in the region under all circumstances.”
MILITARY PRESENCE INCREASES
In 2008, the stakes intensified. Washington formally attempted to place Venezuela on the terrorism list, though Congress didn’t approve the request because of oil dependence. But in July 2008, the US Naval Fourth Fleet was reactivated after almost 60 years, to “demonstrate US power and force in the region”. In 2009, a military agreement between Colombia and Washington was sealed, allowing the Pentagon to occupy and use seven military bases in Colombian territory and any civilian installation necessary.
US Air Force documents justifying the agreement and budget requests to improve Colombian military installations underlined the necessity to combat “…the constant threat of …anti-US governments in the region” and to engage in Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaisance missions, as well as to improve the US armed forces’ capacity to execute “Expeditionary Warfare” in the region.
In December 2009, President Chávez denounced the detection of a US drone plane that had violated Venezuelan territory from Colombia. “A few days ago, one of these military planes penetrated Venezuela as far as Fort Mara,” he stated, referring to a Venezuelan military fort in the State of Zulia, bordering Colombia. The drone was seen by several Venezuelan soldiers who immediately reported the aerial violation to their superiors.
President Chávez gave the order to shoot down any drones detected in Venezuelan territory.
The use of drones in US military operations is highly controversial. The MQ-1 Predator UAV, a type of combat drone, has been used over the past year in Afghanistan and Pakistan to assassinate suspect terrorists. The drones are equipped with Hell-fire missiles and are capable of hitting ground targets in sensitive areas.
Other UAV models are used for espionage and surveillance missions, fully stocked with high-tech camera and video equipment.
Text Eva Golinger & P/ Agencies
Venezuela - Caracas
Picture in original story, via the link: An S-3B Viking taking off from the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt
HR: And this is for the criminal usury cartel - which controls the monetary flow globally - the worst possible nightmare: Latin American ALBA countries which started to make their own money, and that way stay far away from the global usury by the Rothschild empire and its Bank for International Settlements* - the BIS in Basel, Switzerland, which has been enslaving and killing people by the millions at present and through the ages. - ALBA-Currency Sucre valued $1.25 USD - also PDF!
All the same Url.: http://centrodealerta.org/documentos_desclasificados/correo_del_orinoco_internat.pdf
Or here: Google search "Correo del Orinoco International" - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/yd92zf7
RELATED:
Henk Ruyssenaars & the BIS, Rotschild's 'global usury empire' concentrated in the 'Bank for International Settlements' - Google search - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/y8atjpw
Eva Golinger's blog - Postcards from the Revolution - Url.: http://www.chavezcode.com/
Saturday, January 9, 2010 - "US combat plane stationed at the military base in Curaçao violated Venezuelan airspace yesterday." - Url.: http://www.chavezcode.com/2010/01/us-combat-plane-stationed-at-military.html
War warning Chavez: Holland plotting with US again, plus Google search - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/y9nrk59
* The armed gofers of the CIA and the fake NGO's are still doing the same in Latin America - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/nb8wul
* Belgian and Dutch marines were at least partly involved in the coup d'état that took place in Venezuela. - Url.: http://archive.indymedia.be/news/2002/04/21970.html
* A very good and informative site concerning Venezuela and the US is lawyer Eva Golinger's - Url.: http://www.chavezcode.com/
* General Melvin Lopez Hidalgo - NATO assassinating Chavez. - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/kw4e6n
* The next illegal invasion of Venezuela - Brainwashed Dutch armed forces totally at the disposal of USA warmongers - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/kmgdc
* THE SORRY STATE OF WORLD AFFAIRS - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/5tz8uz
* THE LATEST ARTICLES PUBLISHED ON THE APFN WEB SITE: JUST TYPE MY NAME INTO THE 'SEARCH' FIELD ON THE SITE, CLICK, AND THERE YOU ARE. - URL.: http://disc.yourwebapps.com/indices/234999.html
* IT'S DANGEROUS TO BE RIGHT, WHEN YOUR GOVERNMENT IS WRONG - VOLTAIRE
HR
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