For the benefit of our newer readers, Uranium mined in Venezuela is exported, in Panamanian-flag vessels purporting to deliver legitimate goods, in covert support of Iran's growing nuclear weapons programme. Some of the operation is hidden within Venezuela's Aluminium mining industry, which purportedly exports its products to Iran, but former Venezuelan mining executives have long claimed that Iran has no need to import Aluminium, and is, in truth and in fact, moving Uranium to its ally, the Republic of Iran. It would appear that Venezuela's darker secrets also include nuclear terrorism.

If you remember the news about information extracted by the Colombian authorities from Raul Reyes' computer, there was a reference to a purchase of 30 kilograms of Uranium by the FARC.

Will the United States now move forward, and immediately implement its planned designation of Venezuela as a State Sponsor of Terrorism? We cannot say, but our readers are advised to expect a powerful American reaction to this news. Terrorist activity in the Western Hemisphere has just taken a quantum leap towards pure evil.