Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez Wednesday accused the United States of causing the destruction in Haiti by testing a 'tectonic weapon' to induce the catastrophic earthquake that hit the country last week.
President Chavez said the US was "playing God" by testing devices capable of creating eco-type catastrophes, the Spanish newspaper ABC quoted him as saying. ...
Chavez said the killer earthquake followed a test of "weapon of earthquakes" just offshore from Haiti. He did not elaborate on the source of his claim.
I'm not familiar with that news service, nor its standards for attribution.
>Just following this up, and the Fox News report says: ", the
>Venezuelan strongman's state mouthpiece ViVe TV shot out a press
>release saying ..." so, unless I am missing something, it was not
>Chavez himself who made the claim, but a spokesman for ViVe TV. Not
>that I am a big fan of Chavez, but if it was an official of the BBC
>who said it, we would not normally attribute it to Prime Minister
>Gordon Brown.
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