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In Age of Terror, U.S. Fears Tunnels Pose Bigger Threat
http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/ ^ | 3 2 06 | William M. Welch

Posted on 03/02/2006 9:18:01 AM PST by freepatriot32

(March 2) -- Special Agent Frank Marwood was showing a visitor the half-mile long, 80-foot deep smuggler's tunnel his agents discovered beneath the U.S.-Mexican border at Otay Mesa when his cellphone interrupted.

An agent was reporting in with a startling new find: another tunnel, this one shorter and more crudely built, but big enough to provide yet another subterranean port of entry into the USA.

These are busy days for the men and women who guard the nation's border - particularly for the team of federal agents charged with rooting out border tunnels.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Arizona; US: California
KEYWORDS: age; bigger; fears; in; of; pose; terror; threat; tunnels; us

1 posted on 03/02/2006 9:18:05 AM PST by freepatriot32
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3 posted on 03/02/2006 9:28:44 AM PST by the gillman@blacklagoon.com ("If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on Earth!")
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I think as these tunnels are located they should be used to store toxic waste.


4 posted on 03/02/2006 9:29:14 AM PST by VRWCmember (You are STILL safer hunting with Dick Cheney than riding in a car with Ted Kennedy!)
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The chicom's tried it once before!
http://www.ufoseries.com/films/battle.html


5 posted on 03/02/2006 9:55:45 AM PST by Waverunner
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