Posted on 02/02/2006 9:48:25 AM PST by 1curiousmind
February 1, 2006 -- U.S.-Mexican tunnel worries senior U.S. intelligence officials. The recent tunnel discovered between Tijuana and Otay Mesa, California has some U.S. intelligence officials extremely concerned, according to informed U.S. intelligence sources.
Senior U.S. intelligence officers are concerned that the sophisticated 1.4 mile tunnel, complete with ventilation, electrical, and water systems, as well as cement flooring, that connects two warehouses on each side of the border, could have been used to secretly transport nuclear devices or material into the United States. Argentine intelligence sources have previously reported that Al Qaeda smuggled nuclear devices into the United States using a drug route into the United States "rented" from the Juarez, Mexico-based drug cartel. The information was gleaned from agents that penetrated terrorist cells operating in the Puerto Igauzu, Argentina; Foz do Iguazu Brazil; and Ciudad del Este, Paraguay "Tri-Border" region, which is home to a number of Muslims. The DEA reported that the Mexico-U.S. tunnel may have been the work of one of Mexico's drug cartels. Previously, DEA has uncovered links between Al Qaeda and Latin American drug cartels, especially in Colombia and Venezuela. One of the Mexican Tijuana tunnel diggers has informed authorities that a similar tunnel exists between Mexico and Presidio, Texas.
Intelligence insiders believe that the arrest in Los Angeles three weeks ago of a key member of the Russian mafia, an individual who was identified as a mover of money to the hijackers prior to 9-11, may have had something to do with the discovery of the tunnel. It is believed the Russian may have tipped off law enforcement about the tunnel as part of a deal. Argentine intelligence sources also reported that Al Qaeda rented from the Russian mafia a cargo ship smuggling route into the New York-New Jersey region. Argentine intelligence discovered that Al Qaeda had obtained at least one tactical nuclear device from Uzbekistan and enough radioactive material to manufacture "dirty" radiological bombs.
Senior intelligence sources are concerned that the Department of Homeland Security and the Energy Department's Nuclear Emergency Search Teams (NESTs) have failed to conduct tests for radioactivity in the Mexico-California tunnel. Their fears have been heightened with the Super Bowl in Detroit on Sunday.
I had to laugh at your description of "dribble-cup reporters".
It's a good thing for you to have some passion about what you do. That will make you very good at it.
One thing that sets me off is the state of education I see in this country now. As a retired school teacher, I am so often appalled to see the many examples of educational failure among both high school and college graduates.
We have hired several recent college graduates, all with good grades and resumes, for our business. We learn too late that most of them cannot write a simple declarative sentence. I spend many evenings proof reading and editing their correspondence, reports, projects, etc. It saddens me.
Again, thanks for taking the time to answer my question about NEST.
And I wish you well on those college grads of today, who possess less actual edjumicashun that high-schoolers of the 80's!
And yet they pay $100,000 for that edjumicashun, and probably will make more than they will ever deserve.
Hope your OTJ training doesn't give them the skills they can market elsewhere for more $$$, if so, maybe you ought to charge for it instead of paying them to leard skills they should already have!
Tell me what kind of nuke you think they have and I'll explain it to you. I don't think it's likely they have a US field artillery tactical weapon or warhead from a MIRV. I guess you're left with the mythical loose Russian nuke.
This nuke has now been purchased, stored, maintained, driven through Mexico, hoisted down a tunnel, hoisted out of the tunnel, and is now on the way to the Super Bowl in a panel truck. Why use a tunnel? Why not a boat or a small plane? Why wait until now? Was it stolen recently? Purchased from whom? Note that noone bothered to check the tunnel for residual radiation, since the idea of dragging it through of a tunnel is ludicrous.
Mark Edwards and guests were talking about some of the found tunnels being large enough to drive vehicles in.
Marks radio programs can be heard on the computer, both old and new at:
http://www.thewakeupamericafoundation.com
There have been about 30 tunnels found, they were also checked with bomb sniffing dogs.
Filled with alligaors and piranahs.
Why would they have to smuggle it through a tunnel? With our border security, it would have been easier to simple walk it across.
Why use a tunnel? Because it was there, and maybe had been there for a couple of years, and was reliable and had less risk of random exposure to border agents driving or boating or flying by.
"Why would they have to smuggle it through a tunnel? With our border security, it would have been easier to simple walk it across."
Maybe I'm wrong, but when these illegals "walk" across the border isn't it in remote areas which require long distances through the desert? Are they just waltzing across the border in downtown Tijuana? I don't believe so.
The tunnel, on the other hand provided a quick and secure way directly into a warehouse where a truck could be backed up to the loading dock and voila...hello Manhattan!
I sure hope that this is NOT the case.
"Why would they have to smuggle it through a tunnel? With our border security, it would have been easier to simple walk it across."
Maybe I'm wrong, but when these illegals "walk" across the border isn't it in remote areas which require long distances through the desert? Are they just waltzing across the border in downtown Tijuana? I don't believe so.
The tunnel, on the other hand provided a quick and secure way directly into a warehouse where a truck could be backed up to the loading dock and voila...hello Manhattan!
I sure hope that this is NOT the case.
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