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DAILY THREAT, MARCH 13, 2007 Venezuela invites Hamas to Caracas The Hamas Movement on Wednesday received an official invitation to visit Caracas during a meeting in Tehran between visiting Venezuelan foreign minister Nicolas Maduro and a Hamas delegation. He said that the delegates also reviewed the American policy in the Middle East and Latin America. Maduro also expressed the support of the Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez and his people for the Palestinian people and the Makkah agreement. He stressed his country’s rejection of the American imperialist policy in the Middle East, according to Abu Mazrouk. Meanwhile, a source close to the Hamas Movement said that Caracas might well be one of the countries that Hamas leadership would visit within its current tour of a number of countries a bid to rally support for the Palestinian unity government. FULL ARTICLE CAN BE READ HERE. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad`s Latino bedfellow, Venezuelan dictactor Hugo Chavez, officially invited through his FM the Palestinian Islamist deathcult`s leadership to visit Caracas. Source: Hamas Politburo Website