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[Rio Grande]Valley target for illegal Chinese
immigration[South Texas]
The Brownsville Herald ^ | August 29,2005 | Sergio Chapa and Sara Inés Calderón
Posted on 08/30/2005 1:57:48 PM PDT by SwinneySwitch
Local sector sees major bump in Asian apprehensions
August 29, 2005 — Rio Grande Valley Border Patrol agents have seen
a 3,000 percent increase in the number of Chinese nationals detained
here in the past few years.
Although officials declined to provide statistics for undocumented
Chinese nationals, figures show that agents operating in the Valley
and South Texas detained 49 Chinese nationals in fiscal year 2003.
That number increased in fiscal year 2004 with agents detaining more
than 1,483 Chinese nationals since October.
“The Rio Grande Valley area is an established corridor that smugglers
use largely due to the geography, population, and an expanded
smuggling network on both sides of the border,” said Valley Border
Patrol spokesman Roy Cervantes.
Of the five Border Patrol sectors in Texas, the Valley has seen the
highest number of Chinese immigrants, with officials in Laredo, Del
Rio, El Paso and Marfa reporting rare or small numbers of arrests.
Chinese are No. 5 out of the top five “other than Mexican,” or OTM
immigrant apprehensions in the Valley.
Kathleen Walker with the American Immigration Lawyers Association
said heightened border security since Sept. 11, 2001, not economics,
could be the principal reason for the increase in Chinese immigrants
who have been detained here.
“It points to better interior enforcement and better work at the
border,” Walker said. “Because of different developments (in national
security) it makes smuggling, for some people, the only way they feel
they can get into the country.”
Walker said it is harder for Chinese nationals to find work and blend in
than for Mexicans or other Spanish speakers who enter in large,
established immigrant communities.
Chinese immigrants could be funneled through the Valley due to the
work of established smuggling rings who assist them, she added.
“It’s a horrible thing, human smuggling and trafficking, and you see
that a lot coming out of countries like China,” Walker said. “When you
see a heightened increase (in immigration of a particular group), word
gets out that there has been success in particular paths, and that is
utilized until that path is used up and then they try another one.”
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman Nina
Pruneda said her agency is conducting a media campaign with the
cooperation of several Asian nations aimed at creating awareness
about the dangers of human smuggling and the exploitation that
immigrants could face through prostitution, human trafficking and
forced labor rings.
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS) spokesman Chris
Bentley said foreign nationals can ask for asylum whether they enter
the country legally or illegally.
Federal figures show that the American government has consistently
granted asylum to between 600 and 900 Chinese nationals each year
for the past five years.
Bentley said most Chinese asylum seekers in recent years reported
escaping religious or political persecution.
Some women, he said, claimed they wanted to escape China’s
sterilization policy for mothers who already had one child.
A Chinese man named Mei Zhou Zheng traveled more than 6,000
miles from China to Mexico City and headed north to Reynosa this
month in hopes of crossing the border into the United States.
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August 30, 2005 Anti-Terrorism News Headlines:
At least 56 killed in US air strikes in Iraq
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/focusoniraq/2005/August/focusoniraq_August203.xml§ion=focusoniraq
At least 56 people were killed in multiple US air strikes in Iraq
against suspected Al Qaeda hideouts near the Syrian border at dawn on
Tuesday, an Iraqi security source said.
Lebanese hold pro-Syria officials
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4196396.stm
Police in Lebanon have arrested three former pro-Syrian security
chiefs, security sources said. The arrests come at the request of the UN
investigation team looking into the assassination of former Prime Minister
Rafik Hariri.
(UK) Militants go into hiding as expulsion orders are signed
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,22989-1756091,00.html
Sources: Syria backed suicide bombing
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46032
WND Report: The Islamic Jihad suicide bombing in Israel that wounded
almost 50 yesterday was backed by Syria in conjunction with Hezbollah
militants.
Terrorists disguised as fishermen bomb ferry
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46026
Abu Sayyaf said responsible for blast injuring 30 in Philippines
Study: Terrorists Exploit Immigration Laws
http://ap.washingtontimes.com/dynamic/stories/T/TERRORIST_TRAVEL?SITE=DCTMS&SECTION=HOME
Egyptians press hunt for Sinai terrorists
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/08/29/news/egypt.php
(UK) Bomb suspect will 'help police'
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,22989-1756447,00.html
Indonesian terror group hobbled
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0830/p06s01-woap.html
(UK) Radical websites defy deportation threat by urging Islamic war on
West
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/08/29/nterr129.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/08/29/ixhome.html
http://allafrica.com/stories/200508291231.html
The Sahel is Osama's New Playground
The Nation (Nairobi)
OPINION
August 30, 2005
Posted to the web August 29, 2005
By Jackson Mbuvi
Nairobi
According to recent media and intelligence reports, terrorists are on
the march in the Sahel region.
That is certainly bad news for Kenya. Sahel is our second door
neighbour. Where terrorism is concerned, we already have enough
troubles with our first-door neighbour, Somalia.
So what is up in the Sahel? In June, terrorists ambushed an army
patrol in Mauritania and massacred 15 soldiers. The culprits readily
identified themselves with Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda group.
Indeed, they received immediate congratulatory messages on the
Internet from far-flung affiliates of the al-Qaeda.
Among the most noticeable of the messages was one from the
Iraq-based al-Zarqawi Jihad organisation whose leader is Osama's
right-hand man.
It will also be recalled that when London was attacked by terrorists
early last month, media houses in both US and the UK reported that
four months to the attack, a key Western intelligence agency had
alerted authorities in London that terrorists in a Morocco hide-out
were planning an attack on London.
Ideal terrorist hiding place
Following the attack on the Mauritania army, the July 6 issue of
Morocco's leading tabloid, The Liberation, reported that the al Qaeda
had a grand objective to establish terrorist bases in the Sahel similar
to those existing in Afghanistan before the Taliban regime was
dismantled two years ago.
The Sahel terrain is as torturous as the Afghan caves and mountains
when it comes to policing, making it an ideal hiding place for
terrorists.
Quoting intelligence sources in Casablanca, The Liberation newspaper
reported that Mauritanian security had seized documents from a local
Islamic fundamentalist group that contained detailed instructions for
staging attacks on targets within Sahel and beyond.
It contained a list of key leaders targeted for assassination, starting
with Mauritanian prime minister Sghair Ould M'bareck.
The most lethal fundamentalist group in the Sahel, and which
networks well with Osama, is the Algeria-based Salafist Group for
Preaching and Combat (SGPC).
The group, with estimated 300 active combatants is on hot-line
communication with Osama. SGPC has also owned up to over a dozen
terrorist attacks in the Sahel and beyond.
In June, Mauritania Defence minister Baba Ould Sidi said at a press
conference that SGSP had planned the ambush on the army patrol that
killed 15 soldiers.
And in March, Chadian troops had a showdown with the group's militia
near the Algerian border, in which five people were killed.
According to another Morocco tabloid, L'Opinion, recent events in the
region are enough prove that "the SGPS and al Qaeda are set to turn
Sahel desert to an oasis for international terrorism."
Some good news, however, is that countries in Sahel are not sitting
and watching the merchants of death take over the Sahara.
Early last year, they came up with a joint programme aimed at
equipping their military with new techniques to combat infiltration by
al-Qaeda cells.
And this year, they have unveiled a much broader programme dubbed
the Trans-Sahara Combat Initiative.
The new programme has a two-phase military training operation
code-named "Operation Flintlock". The first phase began in early June
with the arrival of special trainers from the US anti-terrorism force.
It involved training in infantry combat tactics. The beneficiaries in that
category were Mauritania, Mali and Niger.
The second phase focused on border patrol exercises and involved
military personnel from Tunisia, Morocco, Nigeria and Senegal.
Through annual training exercise, "Operation Flintlock" will equip
participants with the expertise to limit hostile penetration of porous
borders in remote terrains. In addition, it will help sabotage militants'
recruiting campaigns. Intelligent reports say the SGPC and the
al-Qaeda are busy interesting youths in the Sahel to join their
"cause".
Closer home, our immediate neighbours, Uganda and the Sudan, are
not taking the terrorist threat in the Sahel lightly.
According to the pan-Arab daily, AI-Sharq al Awsat, Sudan, situated
on the eastern edge of the Sahel, and formerly branded a pro-terrorist
state is now showing increasing willingness to participate in the global
fight against terrorism.
In June, authorities in Khartoum gave investigators "crucial dossier"
on al-Qaeda activists, including that of their "high priest", Osama,
who lived in the Sudan in the better part of 1990s.
Uganda not sleeping on the job
The change of heart by Sudanese authorities has not been taken
kindly all round. In a scathing attack broadcast on the al-Jazeera
satellite television on June I7, a spokesman for Osama, one Ayman
al-Zawahiri, denounced Khartoum for assisting "our arch-enemies"
and threatened that "somebody will have to pay a very high price for
it".
Nor is Uganda sleeping on the job. Recently the country made a major
score in fighting terrorists when it installed a sophisticated border
security control system. The high-tech equipment is meant to detect,
track down and apprehend potential terrorist attackers.
With the installation of the facility, Uganda becomes part of the global
Terrorist Interdiction Programme (TIP) aimed at containing the ability
of terrorists to move freely across territorial borders.
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Teleprotation- the weapon of the Future!
(this is the end of the article)........
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/08/29/MNGA0EENPC1.DTL
Victor J. Stenger, a professor emeritus of physics and
astronomy at the University of Hawaii, said: "I didn't
realize that President Bush's faith- based initiatives have
reached so far as Air Force research projects ... . None of
the three forms of teleportation of large objects discussed
in this (Davis) report are anywhere near being practical in
the foreseeable future and (are) probably ultimately
impractical, as a trained physicist can see by just plugging
in a few numbers."
As for the Chinese psychic research, Stenger said the
articles on the "Chinese experiments ... . have not been
translated into English and so (have) not yet (been)
subjected to critical reviews by the scientific community at
large."
Likewise, Michio Kaku, a noted physicist and author at City
University of New York, said "the only way to use
(teleportation) as a secret weapon is to allow our enemies
to bankrupt themselves thinking they can produce a
teleportation machine."
"The Air Force is to be applauded for investigating
technologies that may have value for national security,"
Kaku added. "But wormholes, negative energies, warped
space-time, etc., require futuristic technologies centuries
to millions of years ahead of ours. The only thing going
down the wormhole is taxpayers' money."
E-mail Keay Davidson at kdavidson@sfchronicle.com.
http://www.forbes.com/business/feeds/afx/2005/08/29/afx2194362.html
AFX News Limited
Reports bin Laden wounded untrue; 'no
proof' - US military, NATO
08.29.2005, 06:08 AM
KABUL (AFX) - The US military and NATO peacekeeping forces have
dismissed reports carried on Islamic websites that Osama bin
Laden had been injured in western Afghanistan.
US spokesman Colonel James Yonts said that his military has
checked claims that the Al-Qaeda leader had been wounded by
Spanish troops based in the western province of Herat.
'When we looked into that report -- you know any allegation such
as this, we take it very seriously -- we found no proof,' US
spokesman Colonel James Yonts told reporters in Kabul.
The claim first surfaced on Aug 24 in a story on Italian news
website Adnkronos International.
It quoted two messages carried by 'various Islamic websites,' the
first of which said bin Laden had been wounded in a clash with the
Spaniards, while the second gave details including that the injury
was to his left leg.
In May, Islamic websites stated that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi,
Al-Qaeda's pointman in Iraq, had been wounded. An audio
message confirming the injury was later attributed to Zarqawi
himself.
The NATO-led peacekeeping forces in Afghanistan, which have
hundreds of Spanish troops based in Herat, also ruled out that any
of its troops had injured bin Laden, who has a 50 mln usd US
bounty on his head.
'I'm afraid that was just a rumor. No truth in it,' NATO spokesman in
Kabul Major Andy Elmes said.
A Spanish helicopter crashed near Herat on Aug 16, killing all 17
Spanish peacekeepers aboard. Madrid has said there were no
signs of an attack.
Bin Laden, the alleged mastermind of the Sept 11 attacks on the
United States, has evaded capture for almost four years since
US-led forces invaded Afghanistan to hunt him down and topple his
backers, the Taliban regime.
However, Yonts said that the 19,000-strong US-led coalition will
continue to hunt for the Saudi-born Al-Qaeda leader, who is widely
believed to be hiding along the rugged Afghanistan-Pakistan
border.
'We want nothing more than to bring that man to justice, there is
no doubt about that, and we're doing everything inside
Afghanistan, and through the help of the border central Asian
states as well, looking for that individual,' Yonts said.
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