Posted on 04/01/2009 9:48:28 AM PDT by Shellybenoit
Last week the Washington Times reported that Hezbollah is using the same southern narcotics routes that Mexican drug kingpins do to smuggle drugs and people into the United States, reaping money to finance its operations and threatening U.S. national security.
The Iran-backed Lebanese group has long been involved in narcotics and human trafficking in South America's tri-border region of Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil. Increasingly, however, it is relying on Mexican narcotics syndicates that control access to transit routes into the U.S.
Hezbollah relies on "the same criminal weapons smugglers, document traffickers and transportation experts as the drug cartels," said Michael Braun, who just retired as assistant administrator and chief of operations at the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). "They'll leverage those relationships to their benefit, to smuggle contraband and humans into the U.S.; in fact, they already are [smuggling]."
More recent reports indicate that the Washington Post may have underestimated the threat:
(Excerpt) Read more at yidwithlid.blogspot.com ...
Let’s just give them blanket amnesty, and build more midnight basketball courts for them.
Yup. Problem solved.
Don’t forget for a second that Hugo Chavez’s Venezuela is very much involved with the Muzzies!
The BP has been reporting for years that Islamics have been crossing into the US. Bush turned a blind eye. Hussein will issue invitations.
We’ve known about this for a while and have been basing units in the Tri-Border region to counteract.
Sadly though, it will probably be gutted by ObamaHill.
Been going on for years. Substantial Syrian and Lebanese muzzie presence in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, and especially infesting this remote jungle corner where Argentina, Paraguay, and Brazil come together. Dirty business capital of the hemisphere.
Argentines could clean it up, but the Argie Army Officer Corps has been substantially infiltrated by Syrians.
Ping!
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