Geez, I nearly skipped over this one today from the Washington Time’s Martin Arostegui;

Members of the Basque terrorist group ETA have been conducting financial and propaganda activities in Bolivia with the knowledge of President Evo Morales, according to Spanish intelligence reports cited by the Madrid newspaper El Pais and the local press.

Officials in Bolivia have confirmed that six members of the Basque separatist organization traveled to Bolivia and met with high-level officials of the Morales government during the past year.

According to these officials, Mr. Morales and his vice president, Alvaro Garcia Linera, have had relations with ETA members since 2005, predating Mr. Morales’ 2006 inauguration.
“Members of ETA have been purchasing homes and creating a new refuge for the organization in Cochabamba, where they move like fish in water,” according to El Pais.

Cochabamba, which is Bolivia’s narcotrafficking center and contains the country’s main legal coca plantations, is a stronghold of the ruling Movement Toward Socialism (MAS).

Mr. Morales denied in a Feb. 22 press conference any links with the Basque separatist group, which has been responsible for a number of fatal bombings in Spain. “I personally don’t know anybody in ETA,” he told Bolivian reporters.

Morales is Hugo Chavez’ man, bought and paid for with Venezuelan petro-dollars. And it seems they’re in the terrorist business now bringing in Basque evil-doers from Spain for a little rest, relaxation and giving them room to train. I guess Zapatero’s capitulation to the Islamists hasn’t insulated him from his own domestic terrorists – as recently as December 30th Basques have detonated a bomb in Madrid in spite of peace talks.

I’ll bet cash money that the ETA will also operate anti-democracy terrorist training camps in Bolivia to destabilize Latin America at the behest of Chavez and his puppets. Just as the IRA operated training camps in Columbia (in the late 90s) and the Palestinians operated camps in Libya (in the 80s). That’s why, from the beginning of this war against terrorists, I’ve been in favor of wiping out all terrorists from ETA to Shining Path to the Moros. Screw focusing on al Qaida – kill ‘em all.

Captain’s Quarters has a report on our own hunt for bin Laden in Pakistan.

Things have started going our way, apparently. First a short blurb from UPI announcing that a Guardia Nacional officer (not the same as our National Guard, by the way) has been arrested for plotting the overthrow of Ooooo-go Chavez;

A Venezuelan National Guard general was arrested on charges that he planned the overthrow of President Hugo Chavez, Globovision TV reported Wednesday.
Gen. Ramon Guillen Davila was arrested Tuesday, according to Venezuelan officials, on charges he had plotted to overthrow and kill Chavez.

Good news because, generally speaking, in Latin America, if the Army doesn’t approve of what a political leader is doing, that leader either reforms his ways or there’s a new leader. If this General Davilla was popular among the troops, it could stir up some trouble for Oooogo.

And from the Washington Post, by way of Captain’s Quarters, I read that the missing Iranian general Ali Rez Asgari is in the company of US intelligence agents and singing like a Spring robin;

 Asgari served in the Iranian government until early 2005 under then-President Mohammad Khatami. Asgari’s background suggests that he would have deep knowledge of Iran’s national security infrastructure, conventional weapons arsenal and ties to Hezbollah in south Lebanon. Iranian officials said he was not involved in the country’s nuclear program, and the senior U.S. official said Asgari is not being questioned about it. Former officers with Israel’s Mossad spy agency said yesterday that Asgari had been instrumental in the founding of Hezbollah in the 1980s, around the time of the bombing of the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut.

These are important events that may trigger a more successful near-term future in our war against tyrannts and terrorists.