Jungle Hut points out a detail in a Fox News piece that slipped by a lot of us:

Kadir’s wife, Isha, said that her husband was nabbed while boarding a flight to Venezuela, where he planned to pick up a travel visa to attend an Islamic religious conference in Iran. He had flown from Guyana to Trinidad on Thursday.

So this guy was plotting against the U.S. and coincidentally was planning to travel through Venezuela and Iran. Hmmm.

Chavez is finally being recognized by other South American countries as a threat to the entire region, as Brazil’s congress declares that Chavez is a “cheap Hitler” and throws their moral support behind the student protests. Chavez’s dreams of Latin American domination would benefit from America being distracted by a violent Jihad at home. Are Venezuelan officials allowing Jihadists to set up staging grounds in the Bolivarian republic? It isn’t the first time Venezuela has been linked to radical Islamists. The JFK bombers were supporters of Hezbollah, Hezbollah is active in Latin America, this seems like more than a coincidence to me.

Leftists here are supporting the bombers, so they’ll no doubt deny that Chavez has any connection as will the Democrats who are beholden to the nutroots. But America ignores this at its peril.

UPDATE: This one’s for my buddy over at This Barren Land who thinks there isn’t much substance to charges of Venezuela having a Hezbollah presence. Here’re a couple of links for you to peruse:

Douglas Farrah explains the connection here

Here’s Clint Taylor’s report from Hot Air

Hezbollah is an Iranian proxy organization and given the close relationship between Chavez and Ahmadinejad is it far fetched to assume that tolerating Hezbollah is part of 21st Century Socialism?

That probably won’t convince This Barren land, but there’s always a chance.