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Is a Terrorist Army Massing in the U.S.?
MichNews ^ | 08-28-2004 | Alan Caruba

Posted on 08/28/2004 6:49:37 PM PDT by NewRomeTacitus

Is there is an invisible army of terrorists gathering in America today? The mainstream media and the Bush administration do not want to talk about it.

In July, Defense Watch reported that, in Arizona, an area called the Naco Strip has become a primary route of illegal entry by “significant numbers of Arab-speaking males.” It took a small town weekly newspaper, the Tombstone Tumbleweed, to reveal that, “males of possible Syrian and Iranian descent have been detained in the past few weeks.” Since October 1, 2003, 5,510 illegal aliens designated “Other Than Mexican” (OTM) have been apprehended while crossing the Arizona terrain. These OTM’s are not here to pick vegetables, mow lawns, pluck chickens, or wash cars.

Just do the math. If only five Muslim terrorists crossed the border every day for a year that would add up to 1,825 people ready to do the bidding of Osama bin Laden. If this has been going on for just the years since 9-11, that’s an army of 5,475. Then, too, there are an estimated 2.9 million Muslims in America. Extremists, worldwide, are estimated to be about ten percent of the overall population. Applied to the U.S., that represents a potential 290,000 American Muslims sympathetic to the Islamist cause. No matter how you slice and dice the numbers, it suggests that a substantial threat exists and is exacerbated by the failure to stop terrorists at our borders.

They constitute a virtual army of terrorists who, if not apprehended, could create a day of havoc from coast to coast when al Qaeda gives the signal. When that day comes, remember that you read about it here first.

Or, as some argue, there’s no proof that any al Qaeda operatives have crossed the border. If, however, any were captured, normal counter-terrorism procedures would be to deny this and seek to extract information from those in custody.The 9-11 operatives were here thanks to sloppy immigration procedures and, in the case of illegal aliens, the estimates are that eight to twelve million live among us. That is a huge margin for error.

The topic the Bush administration wants to stay away from until after November 2, Election Day is immigration. Some have called the Bush administration immigration policies “schizophrenic”, but they are not. They are globalist, i.e., the views of someone for whom national borders should be regarded as outmoded while we all join hands in one big, global neighborhood.

One can understand the “schizophrenic” label, given the hue and cry about Bush’s so-called unilateralism and willingness “to go it alone”, but this is the same administration that supports a variety of policies that are globalist, most of which come straight out of the United Nations. The way civics is taught in our schools today is designed to create generations of globalists for whom our national sovereignty and the Bill of Rights are just a bunch of 18th century “ideas.”

There are a number of problems with this see-no-evil immigration policy. On August 10, Jerry Seper of the Washington Times, reported that, under President Bush’s guest-worker program, “Millions of illegal aliens in the United States would be free from arrest and deportation, have access to tax-deferred savings accounts and Social Security credits, and get unrestricted travel to and from their home countries.” This constitutes a massive dollar transfer to Mexico.

Homeland Security Undersecretary, Asa Hutchinson, responsible for the nation’s borders and transportation security, has apparently lost his senses. In a recently reported response to questions from the Senate Judiciary Committee, Hutchinson supported the Bush immigration policies while acknowledging that the “incentives” being offered illegal aliens are generous to a fault. The National Border Patrol Council that represents 10,000 of the non-supervisory agents called the guest-worker plan a “slap in the face to anyone who has ever tried to enforce the immigration laws of the United States."

In January 2004, the Mexican government acknowledged that the number of their people entering the US illegally had increased 66% from 1990 to 2002. Naturally, Mexico’s president, Vicente Fox, wants Bush to grant de facto amnesty to an estimated eight to eleven million illegal aliens already working in the United States, the majority of whom are Mexican. Amnesty and any other program of this nature is simply a reward for breaking the laws of the United States of America. There are even some voices suggesting they should be given the right to vote!

One little discussed cost of the open door policy being pursued by the Bush administration is the increase in the cost of law enforcement where illegal aliens gather in numbers. Right now, according to Seper, “About 80,000 illegal criminal aliens, including convicted murders, rapists, drug dealers, and child molesters who served prison time and were releases, are loose on the streets of America, hiding from federal immigration authorities.”

They don’t have to hide that hard. According the figures for 2002 from the former Immigration and Naturalization Service and from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, more than 375,000 known illegal aliens have been ordered deported, but have disappeared pending immigration hearings. Lee Boyd Malvo, the sniper who terrorized the Washington area, was one of them.

Recently, Brazil agreed to step up the policing of the Triple Border Area with Paraguay and Argentina. According to a Washington Times editorial, “It has long been identified as a fund-raising, training and procurement haven for diverse terrorist groups, including al Qaeda and Hezbollah.” The ease with which terrorists could be infiltrated into the US from these South American strongholds cannot be underestimated.

When the facts are examined, there are few good reasons to permit the massive daily influx of Mexicans and other illegal aliens, but there is one very good reason to shut it down completely.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; Mexico; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: aliens; alqaeda; asahutchinson; border; bushamnesty; caruba; homelandsecurity; illegalaliens; illegalimmigration; islam; jihadinamerica; muslims; terrorists; wot
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To: Jim Robinson
Congress should pass a law outlawing Islam as a valid religion in the U.S. That ought to solve everything. Ooops. Guess they'll have to repeal the first amendment first.

Interesting take on the concept of "religion". Both Germany and Japan obviously neglected the perfect vehicle for their world adventures in the thirties and forties.

Just think how differently things might have played out if they had simply referred to their aggression, what they did, as their religion. Then dressed their million man (religious) armies in civilian clothes and sent them overseas as "students" and "tourists".

141 posted on 08/28/2004 9:48:27 PM PDT by Publius6961 (I don't do diplomacy either)
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To: Joe Hadenuf
As I stated, they are now affecting every single American in this country

In other words, joe hadenuf's problems are the only problems out there.

Pretty narrow and arrogant view, IMO.

142 posted on 08/28/2004 9:49:39 PM PDT by Dane (Trial lawyers are the tapeworms to wealth creating society)
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To: gubamyster; HiJinx; 1_Inch_Group; 2sheep; 2Trievers; 3AngelaD; 4.1O dana super trac pak; ...

Here's a good one.

I've got a link list of recent articles on post #137.


143 posted on 08/28/2004 9:52:25 PM PDT by NewRomeTacitus
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To: All
Popcorn, anyone?


144 posted on 08/28/2004 9:55:05 PM PDT by asgardshill (The Republican's best weapon lies midway between John Kerry's nose and lower chin.)
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To: Jim Robinson
I gotta solution. Nuke the border! That ought to solve the problem.

I like it. I like it a lot. Robinson in '08!

145 posted on 08/28/2004 9:55:46 PM PDT by Prime Choice (Democrats. They want to have their cake and eat yours too.)
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To: Dane
Pretty narrow and arrogant view, IMO.

Dane disagree's with my post? Now I know I'm on the right side.

I let #118 speak for itself.

146 posted on 08/28/2004 9:56:17 PM PDT by Joe Hadenuf (I failed anger management class, they decided to give me a passing grade anyway)
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To: asgardshill
Popcorn, anyone?

Yes, please. And thanks!   munch munch munch

147 posted on 08/28/2004 9:58:15 PM PDT by Prime Choice (Democrats. They want to have their cake and eat yours too.)
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To: NewRomeTacitus

Whoa, looks like I missed a good one. Just came back for more battery packs off the recharger. By the end of the night Arizona's illegal alien apprehensions total for the year will probably reach 543,000.

Full moon, a near cloudless sky, and mild temperatures tonight. Infrared and night vision scopes are working just grand. It don't get any better than this.


148 posted on 08/28/2004 10:04:30 PM PDT by JackelopeBreeder (Proud to be a mean-spirited and divisive loco gringo armed vigilante terrorist cucaracha!)
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To: NewRomeTacitus

<< Is a Terrorist Army Massing in the U.S.? >>

No.

Wrong tense.

Fifteen to thity-five million strong -- and already massed.


149 posted on 08/28/2004 10:08:30 PM PDT by Brian Allen (President George W Bush by 10 percentage points and 44 EC States -- the other bozo 6 States and DC)
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To: NewRomeTacitus
"...but there is one very good reason to shut it down completely."
150 posted on 08/28/2004 10:10:11 PM PDT by sweetliberty ("A wise man's heart inclines him to the right, but a fool's heart to the left." (Eccl. 10:2))
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To: JackelopeBreeder

Over half a million through one state alone...truly mind boggling. Have they found where the drones are collecting dust and "tagged" them yet?


151 posted on 08/28/2004 10:11:01 PM PDT by NewRomeTacitus
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To: tpaine

Tpaine you are so cute when you miss the point. LOL


152 posted on 08/28/2004 10:15:00 PM PDT by Texasforever (God can send you to hell but he can't sue you. He can't find a lawyer.)
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To: Publius6961; Jim Robinson
As long as the cult of Islam is regarded as a religion precious little can be done about it under the law.
NewRomeTacitus

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Congress should pass a law outlawing Islam as a valid religion in the U.S. That ought to solve everything.

Ooops. Guess they'll have to repeal the first amendment first.
133 JR

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Publius6961 wrote:

Interesting take on the concept of "religion".
Both Germany and Japan obviously neglected the perfect vehicle for their world adventures in the thirties and forties.

Just think how differently things might have played out if they had simply referred to their aggression, what they did, as their religion.
Then dressed their million man (religious) armies in civilian clothes and sent them overseas as "students" and "tourists".

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Germany & Japan didn't want to destroy our Western 'culture', they wanted to control it, and us.

-- Like it or not, we are in a 'holy war', -- a religious war against fanatics.

We cannot win if we fight it by being fanatical in return.
153 posted on 08/28/2004 10:15:02 PM PDT by tpaine (No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another. - T. Jefferson)
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To: Texasforever

Cute is your middle name tex.

You missed MY point, as usual.


154 posted on 08/28/2004 10:17:41 PM PDT by tpaine (No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another. - T. Jefferson)
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To: hispanarepublicana

That's one heck of a Wandering Wermacht story. I knew they were kept in internment camps around Texas and Oklahoma but that guy, with his radio and cash bundle, was no escaped prisoner.


155 posted on 08/28/2004 10:18:01 PM PDT by NewRomeTacitus
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To: NewRomeTacitus
Too many variables; apparently terrorist brag~ especially when they are getting drunk and chasing strippers~ That was only 19 of them. Thousands? These losers would crack or slip at some point; the cards would collapse.
156 posted on 08/28/2004 10:19:06 PM PDT by Porterville (How can the median price of a home in CA be 450,000 dollars? How? Where is the money?)
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To: Prime Choice

Meeee tooo!

Ceptin' little less salt and A LOT more pepper. :)


157 posted on 08/28/2004 10:20:37 PM PDT by LNewman
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To: tpaine
You missed MY point, as usual.

LOL I see you have had time to read more of the thread.

158 posted on 08/28/2004 10:20:48 PM PDT by Texasforever (God can send you to hell but he can't sue you. He can't find a lawyer.)
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To: NewRomeTacitus

159 posted on 08/28/2004 10:21:37 PM PDT by montag813
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To: LNewman
I went easy on the salt, so enjoy it guilt-free.

(My BP hit quadruple digits last week so I have to be good this week)

160 posted on 08/28/2004 10:23:07 PM PDT by asgardshill (The Republican's best weapon lies midway between John Kerry's nose and lower chin.)
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