Posted on 10/12/2004 9:35:55 PM PDT by RightOnTheLeftCoast
Edited on 10/12/2004 10:17:32 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Chechen terrorists probed
By Bill Gertz
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
U.S. security officials are investigating a recent intelligence report that a group of 25 Chechen terrorists illegally entered the United States from Mexico in July.
The Chechen group is suspected of having links to Islamist terrorists seeking to separate the southern enclave of Chechnya from Russia, according to officials familiar with intelligence reports.
Members of the group, said to be wearing backpacks, secretly traveled to northern Mexico and crossed into a mountainous part of Arizona that is difficult for U.S. border security agents to monitor, said officials speaking on the condition of anonymity.
The intelligence report was supplied to the U.S. government in late August or early September and was based on information from an intelligence source that has been proved reliable in other instances, one official said.
A second U.S. official said the report is being investigated, but said it could not be determined whether the group of Chechens actually entered the country, as the intelligence source reported.
"We don't know whether or not that report is true," this official said. A spokesman for U.S. Customs and Border Protection confirmed ...
Great - white looking Muslim terrorists......
Well, muslims come in all colors.
But it could be guessed at. They are gunning for our softest targets.
Chechens are Caucasians. They don't look like the Ay-Rabs the "good ole boys" will be looking for.
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They try it and not one of them will leave this country alive. No joke.
Question...when they don't know whether or not a report is true...is it still called it intelligence?
You don't get it - THEY DON'T WANT TO LEAVE AMERICA ALIVE. They came here to die and take as many of your children to their graves along with them.
I get it. The ones in Breslan had no intention of dying there. They backshot children with their escape already half-arranged. Keep up.
nice description.
Why is this a surprise?
We all know that Bush won't do anything about the Mexican border, and now what everyone thought would happen has come to pass - terrorists got through.
After 9/11, America had its best opportunity in history to justify closing our borders, with the incredibly positive by-product of eliminating illegal immigration in the process. But genius Rove sold out the rule of law, sold out common sense, sold out national security and may have screwed up this election by missing the opportunity. The Republicans would have had 1/2 the Democrats in this country supporting them on this and would be running away with this election as a result. But in an attempt to garner a minuscule number of hispanic votes (against the millions Bush would have gotten by closing the borders), we allowed these terrorists in the country, and undermined our position in the War on Terror.
In time it won't matter. Everyone who kneels on a prayer rug will be shot on sight. That's what's coming, thanks to the evil spawn. After they detonate a nuke in a US city, it will be open season on the bastards, guaranteed.
How do you "close" 22,000 miles of border?
And the other 1/2 would have never made it across the border. Brilliant!:)
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