Murder Suspect Detained at Border (From Kosovo)

Houston Chronicle ^ | Aug. 12, 2009

[nickcarraway]

A man from Kosovo wanted in a New York City slaying awaits extradition from South Texas.

The Border Patrol said Wednesday that Arber Mustafaj, 35, was detained with two other men from the former Yugoslavia, including his brother, just before midnight Monday.

The three were stopped on a rural road northwest of the Border Patrol’s inland Falfurrias checkpoint.

The Border Patrol says Mustafaj became a legal permanent resident after coming to the U.S. as a refugee.

His brother, whose name was not released, was found to be under a deportation order and was held for deportation proceedings, said Border Patrol spokesman John Lopez. The third man was in the U.S. legally and was released.

Details on the New York City killing were not immediately available from the Border Patrol.

[AuntB]

The NAFBPO sent out this article today, you might find of interest.

http://www.hstoday.us/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=9598&Itemid=345

The Rise of Islamist Extremism in Latin America
By Anthony Kimery
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“This network … did not spring up overnight,” states the report of Operation Cazando Anguilas, a study commissioned by the US Office of Secretary of Defense to explore the nexus of terrorists, transnational criminal organizations and Mexican narco-cartels in Latin America. “Rather, it arose as a byproduct of a long history of Muslim involvement in the region.

Despite the paucity of reporting on the problem, the fundamentalist Muslim threat south of the border has been explored and documented.

These are the very same Latino gangs that the August Homeland Security Today reportrevealed not only serve as henchmen for Mexico’s narco-cartels—including running cartel operations in the US—but who also have been recruited to provide security for suspected terrorists being smuggled into the United States. What’s more disconcerting, though, is that gang members are being converted to fundamentalist Islam, according to Operation Cazando Anguilas.

As Max Manwaring, a Latin American specialist who holds the General Douglas MacArthur Chair and is Professor of Military Strategy at the US Army War College, told Homeland Security Today, “the nexus between gangs, other transnational criminal organizations and Islamic fundamentalists is what gangs do and have done for centuries,” and that “gangs acting as carriers, security escorts, moving currency, and acting as ‘enforcers’ is also what gangs do and have done for centuries (in the case of the Maras, it’s only been since the 1990s).” Gangs have always reached agreements, made treaties and pacts and negotiated with potential partners, he added.

[org.whodat]

The Border Patrol says Mustafaj became a legal permanent resident after coming to the U.S. as a refugee.

Thank you Jorge!!