Posted on 03/27/2009 6:51:59 AM PDT by La Lydia
Hezbollah is using the same southern narcotics routes that Mexican drug kingpins do to smuggle drugs and people into the United States, reaping money to finance its operations and threatening U.S. national security, current and former U.S. law enforcement, defense and counterterrorism officials say. The Iran-backed Lebanese group has long been involved in narcotics and human trafficking in South America's tri-border region of Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil. Increasingly, however, it is relying on Mexican narcotics syndicates that control access to transit routes into the U.S.
Hezbollah relies on "the same criminal weapons smugglers, document traffickers and transportation experts as the drug cartels," said Michael Braun, who just retired as assistant administrator and chief of operations at the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)...His comments were confirmed by six U.S. officials, including law enforcement, defense and counterterrorism specialists. They spoke on the condition that they not be named because of the sensitivity of the topic.....
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
But didn’t Jimmy Carter decide that Hezbollah are our friends?
Why would they need to sneak into the country?
They will be granted a fast track to citizenship and join Dear Leaders civilian national security force where they can enforce laws to prevent dissent against Dear Leader.
In the tri-border area of the Southern Cone the late 19th and early 20th century Christian “Turko” migrants from the Ottoman Empire, found a home and became very successful in business. Then, in the late nineteen eighties a new strain of Turkos began to arrive. They were the Muslim Arabs from Syria, Lebanon and Palestine. They went into major commerce and gem smuggling and were backed by Arabs with big bucks. The old Turkos understood what the new guys were up to, and have worked with the governments of Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil to keep a close eye on their operations.
Why can’t we do the same in the USA? Ask Helen Thomas and other offspring of Turco migrants to the USA.
In the tri-border area of the Southern Cone the late 19th and early 20th century Christian “Turko” migrants from the Ottoman Empire, found a home and became very successful in business. Then, in the late nineteen eighties a new strain of Turkos began to arrive. They were the Muslim Arabs from Syria, Lebanon and Palestine. They went into major commerce and gem smuggling and were backed by Arabs with big bucks. The old Turkos understood what the new guys were up to, and have worked with the governments of Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil to keep a close eye on their operations.
Why can’t we do the same in the USA? Ask Helen Thomas and other offspring of Turco migrants to the USA.
If they can smuggle in drugs, they can smuggle in the components for a nuclear bomb or a dirty bomb - EASILY.
Muchas gracias Senior Bush y Senior Obama HUSSEIN!!
The failed drug war aids terrorism.
I thought Helen was offspring from Transylvanians?
seal the border!
Death to Nasrallah and all his friends. The sooner, the better. Hell is waiting for them.
If I was a bad guy, I'd be doing the same thing because the BORDERS ARE OPEN.
Dopus plans on amnesty for illegals and making the borders MORE open. We are so screwed ... .
Thanks for protecting us, politicians! Your damn heads will be sticks if and when another domestic terrorist event occurs!
Ping!))
If you want on, or off this S. Texas/Mexico ping list, please FReepMail me.
....this is bad on so many levels!
AND EVERYONE SAID AMEN!
The Protean Enemy
Foreign Affairs ^ | July 2003!!
Hezbollah, considered to be the most sophisticated terrorist group in the world. Hezbollah, which enjoys backing from Syria and Iran, is based in southern Lebanon and in the lawless “triborder” region of South America, where Paraguay, Brazil, and Argentina meet. The group has also maintained a fundraising presence in the United States since the 1980s.
The triborder region of South America has become the world’s new Libya, a place where terrorists with widely disparate ideologies — Marxist Colombian rebels, American white supremacists, Hamas, Hezbollah, and others — meet to swap tradecraft. Moneys raised for terrorist organizations in the United States are often funneled through Latin America, which has also become an important stopover point for operatives entering the United States. Reports that Venezuela’s President Hugo Ch_z is allowing Colombian rebels and militant Islamist groups to operate in his country are meanwhile becoming more credible, as are claims that Venezuela’s Margarita Island has become a terrorist haven.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/977550/posts
Let whoever set off some kind of massive terrorist attack so the gun grabbers and the Socialist One Worlders can proceed with their takeover.
Surprise, surprise. Dirty scumbags doing business with other dirty scumbags. Whoda' thunk?
But please remember that no terrorist was ever in Iraq during Saddam's reign of terror.
Nope, never...
6 Chinese immigrants picked up by Arizona border patrol
China, Iranians, Hezbollah, Hamas....ain’t diversity grand???? Thank you Mexico!
Here’s an article that agrees with you from a former border agent.
Legalize drugs, take smugglers off Forbes list
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/politics/6345180.html
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