Military build up in the Caribbean Sea and Netherlands Antilles -
a hint of imminent action against Venezuela by US 'friends', mercenaries (or black ops)? (7-30-07)
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The view from St. Maarten - For months now there has been a parade of military ships and helicopters and soldiers
doing 'joint exercises' here and nearby. The big hardware is from the Netherlands. The reasons given are general preparedness, hurricane relief drills and common defence against 'drug lords'. As many as 900 area volunteers and European professional soldiers participate in these exercises. On St. Maarten they practice road blocks, sleeping in schools and buzzing the coast with a large helicopter. Is the activity driven by the United States and Exxon-Mobile-Shell's displeasure with oil liberator, Hugo Chavez in nearby Venezuela?
Consider this recent article in the World Socialist Website that nicely emphasizes the role of the press in explaining why the 'renegade' Hugo Chavez is a regional 'threat'. Not that the United States or European allies, especially Dutch allies, would want a piece of the giant bonanza in oil resources Venezuela has.
In the local press these recent headlines from St. Maarten's Daily Herald seem to state that Chavez is a threat to a free press by his crackdown on (CIA friend) RCTV.
But no local media mentions it was RCTV and a minority of wealthy Veneluelans who used RCTV to declare an impostor to be president when Chavez was elected by an overwhelming majority (80%). The dirty story of RCTV is seen worldwide in the documentary "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" (available now on Google Video -
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5832390545689805144&q=revolution+will+not+be+televised&total=121&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0 ).
Demonizing Chavez in the local media as well as the corporate media in the States is fully under way. The revelations made by the World Socialist Website that the US will try to create a terror "threat" with Caribbean
origins strikes a chord. That will be shown to be true when the 'other show' drops and any other Federal-informant-originated plot is exposed with Caribbean born 'participants' (entrapped, targeted victims). Here is some more about the so-called JFK plot:
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"There are lots of threats to you in the world. There's the threat of a heart attack for genetic reasons. You can't sit there and worry about everything. Get a life,"
- New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg
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Here are some recent military movements in the Caribbean Sea, Netherlands Antilles area that seem like a war game against Chavez. St. Martin
(the French side of a dual nation island near Puerto Rico) played host to Bush Sr. and Mitterrand in 1989 when the Panama war was being planned.
http://bushlibrary.tamu.edu/research/papers/1989/89121600.html
Curacao - Biggest (Dutch) naval ship visiting
http://www.liveincuracao.com/index.php?p=202
Dutch activity in the Caribbean Sea with Military Report with regional goals Netherlands Indy Media -
http://indymedia.nl/nl/2007/05/44800.shtml
HR MS Zuiderkruis joins support
SIMPSON BAY--The Dutch Marines, Netherlands Antilles and Aruba Coast Guard and local officials are working out the logistics of their emergency plan this week in case a hurricane should affect St. Maarten, Saba or St. Eustatius.
http://www.thedailyherald.com/news/daily/k007/hurri007.html
Aboard NATO Ships in the Caribbean
http://www.allatsea.net/specificissueeditorial.php?featureid=1394
Amphibian exercise on June 10 in St. Maarten
http://www.thedailyherald.com/news/daily/j006/Navy006.html
Questions about the Caribbean mission of submarine
http://www.scaredmonkeys.net/viewtopic.php?p=186412&sid=e3b2940d96bad87b2fca159da7aee75c#186412
United States Southern Command , Exercises/Operations
http://www.southcom.mil/AppsSC/pages/exOps.php
Dates: May 2007
Participating countries: Antigua-Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Haiti, Montserrat, St Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Turks and Caicos, and Trinidad & Tobago.
Tradewinds 2007 (completed, see link) – hosted by Belize - 16 countries enhanced their collective abilities of maritime and ground security forces to prepare for and respond to security threats.
Tradewinds 2007
http://www.southcom.mil/AppsSC/news.php?storyId=406
Forward Operating Area defined in thus US submarine tactics paper, LITTORAL ANTI-SUBMARINE WARFARE CONCEPT
http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ship/docs/aswcncpt.htm
Oddity - The Dutch military 'helped' in search for tabloid murder star
http://www.thedailyherald.com/news/daily/i49/girl49.html
"In the meantime, this tanker plane is assisting a Belgian F-16 mission to Afghanistan and will not be able to accompany the three F-16s back to the Netherlands. On request of the navy commander, the F-16s are being used to update the topographical maps of the ABC Islands, while waiting for the tanker plane to return. " -- so under pretext of helping in a homicide case the entire military apparatus of the Netherlands kicks in to map the whole Southern Caribbean. That seems far fetched.
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