More on the alleged assassination plot

Yesterday, there were press reports about a foiled plot to shoot down the presidential helicopter of Tony Saca. The Reuters report which I quoted listed the suspect as George Nayes, a Cuban-American who had reportedly been involved in recruiting Salvadorans to work in Iraq.

The Salvadoran press, names the suspect as George Nayor and/or George Nayes. He is described as a businessman who ran restaurants, including one known as "Karaoke George" and a gymnasium in San Salvador. The Salvadoran government is tying him to the Medellin drug cartel. Although some press reports describe Nayor/Nayes as a Cuban-American, others describe him as being an American of Lebanese descent. La Prensa describes him as the designer of two plazas in San Salvador, the plaza Palestina and the plaza Arafat which show solidarity with the Palestinian cause.

Does it seem odd that a promoter of Palestinian causes who also provides recruits for the US war effort in Iraq? Perhaps not, since Tony Saca, a descendant of Palestinians does the same thing.

Never ones to miss a chance to smear the FMLN, El Diario de Hoy, asserts that Nayor was seen at the funeral of Schafik Handal. Although they acknowledge he has been seen at bars with people of the right and the left. The same report asserts that Nayor was a member of a Harley-Davidson motorcycle club known as the Renegades of El Salvador.

Saca portrays the plot as a conspiracy of all the evil in the world against him. He claims to not be surprised that narco-traffickers and international terrorists and Salvadoran gangs would be motivated to try and destabilize El Salvador. We can expect to see a greater militarization of the country to be justified by such perceived (or invented) threats.