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Memo list possible border terror plot (TEXAS)
The Dallas Morning News ^
| 7-16-05
| Alfredo Corchado and Jason Trahan
Posted on 07/17/2005 9:27:42 AM PDT by pwatson
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posted on
07/17/2005 9:27:42 AM PDT
by
pwatson
To: pwatson
Another must-read for those in denial on FR. The threat of terrorist actions/materials, etc. coming across our unprotected borders is beyond real.
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posted on
07/17/2005 9:34:11 AM PDT
by
EagleUSA
To: EagleUSA
But the intelligence bulletin noted that the alleged terrorist plot, as relayed by the informant, was still a work in progress, leaving open the possibility that less conspicuous vehicles might be employed. And the FBI memo said that "one possible smuggling route Traca wanted to use was through Big Bend National Park."
The border patrol's Marfa sector is its largest, covering 510 miles of border with Mexico, including part of Big Bend National Park, and bordering the Mexican states of Chihuahua and Coahuila. With some 200 agents, it has the smallest force of any sector along the Mexican border, according to Bill Brooks, the sector spokesman.
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posted on
07/17/2005 9:37:18 AM PDT
by
pwatson
To: EagleUSA
There will be an attack towards the end of the Bush term, thus destroying his legacy.
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posted on
07/17/2005 9:39:54 AM PDT
by
zarf
To: pwatson
>> The plot, according to uncorroborated information provided by an FBI informant, involves a man, described as an Arab who goes by the nickname "El Español," and Ernesto Zatarín Beliz, also known as El Traca, suspected of being a Mexican drug trafficker and member of the Zetas, the feared enforcers of the notorious Gulf cartel. "El Español is gathering truck drivers with knowledge of truck routes in the United States and explosive experts" in the state of Coahuila, according to the March 11
Islamists must infiltrate and gain trust with the Mexican and Columbian traffickers while still maintaining security. They must have the proficiency to pass off as native drug runners or slave couriers.
Drug/slave traffickers may not be our friends, but they are not willing to knowingly move nuclears into the US for the islamists. It will really screw up their "good thing" that has been going on for decades.
This is how it will all likely shake out, once the coyotes help deliver the goods, and then realize they were conned.
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posted on
07/17/2005 9:43:35 AM PDT
by
mmercier
(evils still worse we have known)
To: zarf
That will be his legacy. And justly so. 5 years in office
(almost 4 of them post 9-11) so far and not a damn thing done to secure our borders.
His legacy will be: that a million Americans died because a million others wanted their lawn mowed on the cheap.
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posted on
07/17/2005 9:50:12 AM PDT
by
yooling
(A Møøse once bit my sister...)
To: pwatson
Many say the likely route(s) into the US for the next strike will come from the north.
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posted on
07/17/2005 9:50:22 AM PDT
by
1066AD
To: 1066AD
Does Gov. Perry have the authority to put the National Guard on the border? If so, this would be the perfect opportunity to try it.
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posted on
07/17/2005 9:59:21 AM PDT
by
SC33
To: SC33
Does Gov. Perry have the authority to put the National Guard on the border?Which one? The one currently deployed overseas or the one about to be?
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posted on
07/17/2005 10:05:17 AM PDT
by
TADSLOS
(Right Wing Infidel since 1954)
To: pwatson; Travis McGee; Squantos; Coop; Dog
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posted on
07/17/2005 10:35:21 AM PDT
by
TADSLOS
(Right Wing Infidel since 1954)
To: zarf
There will be an attack towards the end of the Bush term, thus destroying his legacy. Which is exactly what you and your ilk are praying will happen.
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posted on
07/17/2005 10:37:01 AM PDT
by
COEXERJ145
(Just Blame President Bush For Everything, It Is Easier Than Using Your Brain)
To: zarf
There will be an attack towards the end of the Bush term, thus destroying his legacy. Or it might send his approval ratings skyrocketing again, which will rip your little heart out. :-D
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posted on
07/17/2005 10:47:21 AM PDT
by
Coop
(www.heroesandtraitors.org)
To: pwatson
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posted on
07/17/2005 11:35:28 AM PDT
by
Travis McGee
(----- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com -----)
To: Coop
If a major terrorist attack leads back to the open border, the Bush legacy will be one of abject failure and dereliction of duty.
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posted on
07/17/2005 11:36:40 AM PDT
by
Travis McGee
(----- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com -----)
To: COEXERJ145
No, we are wishing the president would do his duty to protect the nation during wartime.
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posted on
07/17/2005 11:37:53 AM PDT
by
Travis McGee
(----- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com -----)
To: Travis McGee
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posted on
07/17/2005 11:51:31 AM PDT
by
Coop
(www.heroesandtraitors.org)
To: Coop; Travis McGee
"No, it won't."
Oh, really?
How can one fight a so called war on terror while leaving the border wide open? Are you saying that no terrorists have exploited our open borders and joined their respective cells in large cities and are planning the next attacks?
Just because something hasnt happened doesn't mean it wont in the future.
Our enemy is patient, and takes years to plan attacks....especially high visibility ones like 9/11. Do you honestly think that they are going to do what they did in london or spain over here? To follow up 9/11 with an attack like that would make them look weakened to the core.
You'd think a president that had the best interests of America at heart would do something about the border, especially post 9/11. Reagan would have.
To: Coop; Travis McGee
Clarification on: "to follow up 9/11 w/ an attack like that would make them look weakened to the core"
What I mean by that is that they likely wont pull a spain or london for their next attack, they will do something on equal footing or worse than 9/11.
Also, the president is not completely to blame on this issue. The senate has failed us as well on the border:
"Vote To Increase Border Agents fails (But Senator George Allen Voted for More Agents)"
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1443753/posts
To: Stellar Dendrite; Coop
The President is responsible, because he is commander in chief, and head of the executive branch. Directly through presidential orders, he could take our 90% open southern border and make it 90% closed in a month, simply by changing the rules of engagement the USBP operate under to wartime ROE.
If and when a major attack is traced back to our wide open southern border, the blame will be 100% his.
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posted on
07/17/2005 1:27:03 PM PDT
by
Travis McGee
(----- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com -----)
To: pwatson
At a hearing Tuesday of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the chairman, Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., said: "Given the threat of international terrorism, there is great concern that our land borders could also serve as a channel for international terrorists and weapons of mass destruction. The threat of terrorist penetration is particularly acute along our southern border." This brain stem must have forgotten his own words when he voted the other day to NOT INCREASE the number of Border Patrol officers in the budget!
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