"A top al Qaeda lieutenant has met with leaders of a violent Salvadoran criminal gang with roots in Mexico and the United States — including a stronghold in the Washington area — in an effort by the terrorist network to seek help infiltrating the U.S.-Mexico border, law enforcement authorities said.
Adnan G. El Shukrijumah, a key al Qaeda cell leader for whom the U.S. government has offered a $5 million reward, was spotted in July in Honduras meeting with leaders of El Salvador's notorious Mara Salvatrucha gang, which immigration officials said has smuggled hundreds of Central and South Americans — mostly gang members — into the United States.
Mr. Ashcroft confirmed that U.S. border agents and inspectors had ramped up efforts to find El Shukrijumah amid reports that the al Qaeda leader was thought to be seeking entry routes into the United States along the U.S.-Mexico border. Mr. Ashcroft noted that increased enforcement efforts were under way in the wake of a rise of arrests of border jumpers from Afghanistan, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Pakistan, the Philippines, Saudi Arabia and Syria. Authorities said Mara Salvatrucha gang members moved into the Los Angeles area in the 1980s and developed a reputation for being organized and extremely violent. The gang since has expanded into the Washington area, including Virginia and Maryland, and into Oregon, Alaska, Texas, Nevada, Utah, Oklahoma, Illinois, Michigan, New York, Georgia and Florida. More than 3,000 Mara Salvatrucha gang members are thought to be in the Washington area, with a major operation in Northern Virginia. Other gang centers, authorities said, include Montgomery and Prince George's counties and the Hispanic neighborhoods of Washington. Mr. McNulty, whose office has prosecuted Mara Salvatrucha gang members, has described the organization as the "gang of greatest interest" to law enforcement authorities. He said gang members are recruited predominantly from Hispanic communities and typically among juveniles, some as young as 13."
CUT
Time to utterly exterminate MS-13, as well as the evil immigration shysters who keep them infesting our country.
Arent these the people who thought they could threaten us in the border states if we dared to stand up to the lunacy down there?
Transport them back home in a C130, When the Herc gets over LA MESA open the back door and have the pilot nose up over one of the runways...problem solved...
I hope we're not fooling around and this doesn't turn out to be yet another "catch and release" program.
Maybe I should send a copy of this to the HPD. They obviously aren't interested in rounding up the illegals. At christmas time, there were gangs roaming Houston from Mexico. They would go into a store and pull out hidden bags, fill them up and then race out of the store to a waiting car. When are they going to lock down the Mexican border. If you think about the number of troops we have in Iraq, and the number of these terrorists known to be in the U.S., is there any doubt we have been invaded.
It's all Bush's fault ...
We have Mexican criminal family cartels operating in my county in northern California. Last year, they busted six gardens of 3,000-6,000 plants with armed attendants. Most were growing on the National Forest. A notebook was found linking them to M13. I was told the armed attendants around harvest time are thought to be AWOL Mexican army.
Indeed. But I guess they've been doing the terrorism that Americans just don't want to do.