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CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuela's vice president accused religious broadcaster
Pat Robertson on Tuesday of making "terrorist
statements" by suggesting that American agents assassinate President
Hugo Chavez.
Vice President Jose Vicente Rangel said Venezuela was studying its legal options,
adding that how Washington responds to Robertson's comments would put its anti-terrorism
policy to the test.
"The ball is in the U.S. court, after this criminal statement by a citizen
of that country," Rangel told reporters. "It's huge hypocrisy to maintain
this discourse against terrorism and at the same time, in the heart of that
country, there are entirely terrorist statements like those."
Robertson suggested on-air Monday, Aug. 22, 2005, that American operatives
assassinate Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to stop his country from becoming
"a launching pad for communist infiltration and Muslim extremism."
