Posted on 08/30/2010 10:22:06 AM PDT by pabianice
Just shown on Fox. Obama is sending 35 additional border guards a week to the US-Mexican border.
Comment in The Boston Globe here.
OH.............OK..........Great. Problem over. No worries, Obama has spoken!
“There are no illegal Mexicans at the border”.
He will provoke us with outrageous statements and outrageous behavior until we rise up. It's what he wants.
WoW!!! Thirty five guards? Wow!
US-Mexican border most secure since 1990? Really?
Yeh, that’s like saying the Recovery is the best economic stimulus since the Great Depression. And that he’s only going to cut middle class taxes because that’ll really give American’s a break....oh wait....
anything other than totally ignoring those pigs simply prolongs their existence.
every hit on their site is a travesty to journalism.
I suppose the cartels are feeling pretty secure, but I don’t know about border residents...
Is this real? Where is it? Was it reported in any media?
Where do I send my thank you note?
Which say's nothing!!!
http://www.investigativeproject.org/2068/new-terror-threat-on-mexico-border
New Terror Threat On Mexico Border
Investor’s Business Daily
July 20, 2010
Border: A Hezbollah-like car bomb explodes in a border town as a congresswoman asks Homeland Security about links between the terrorist group and Mexican drug cartels. This is more than an immigration problem.
Car bombs are a terrorist specialty and not a drug cartel modus operandi. The heavily armed cartels are more into shootings and kidnappings. So the car bomb that exploded Thursday in Ciudad Juarez, near a federal police headquarters, killing four, was either a change in tactics for the cartels or a sign of teaming up with a terrorist group, one of which could be Iran-linked Hezbollah.
Officials called it a well-planned trap using what may have been the first time that traffickers have used a car bomb since the start of a military-led offensive against drug cartels. It also may be the first indication of Hezbollah’s growing influence south of the border.
Erick Stakelbeck of the Investigative Project, a counterterrorism research group, says Hezbollah has established a base in the Americas in what is known as the Tri-Border area, where Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay meet. As he reports, “the area is home to roughly 20,000 Middle Eastern immigrants — mostly from Lebanon and Syria — and has long been a hotbed for terrorist fundraising, arms and drug trafficking, counterfeiting and money laundering.”
Rep. Sue Myrick, R-N.C., recently sent a letter to the Department of Homeland Security asking it to form a task force to investigate growing ties between Hezbollah and the drug cartels as well as growing evidence of a Hezbollah presence in Mexico.
“We have seen their cooperation in countries across South America, particularly the tri-border area of South America (bounded by Puerto Iguazu, Argentina; Ciudad del Este, Paraguay; and Foz do Iguanzo, Brazil). Hezbollah operates almost like a Mafia family in the region, often demanding protection money and ‘taxes’ from local inhabitants,” Myrick said in the letter.
Last year we reported that Colombian officials were investigating the Medellin-based Office of Envigado cartel as a Hezbollah front organization. This came after the arrest in Bogota of Chekri Mahmoud Harb, a suspected go-between for Hezbollah and the Taliban in Colombia.
According to an April 30 report compiled by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, “International terrorist groups, including Hamas and Hezbollah, have also reportedly raised funding for these terrorist activities through linkages formed with (drug-trafficking organizations) in South America, particularly those operating in the tri-border area of Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina.”
Myrick says Farsi tattoos have been found on members of drug gangs in U.S. prisons. Farsi is the native language of Iran. She also raised concerns over Hezbollah’s training of Mexican cartels in making car bombs and in sophisticated tunneling techniques used in its war against Israel.
If the cartels are able to smuggle drugs and people into the U.S., it has not escaped the attention of groups like Hezbollah and al-Qaida that they are also capable of smuggling other things into the U.S. — like trained terrorists or the makings of a dirty bomb.
State Department documents obtained by Human Events show that more than 180,000 illegal aliens from countries other than Mexico were apprehended from 2008 through mid-March 2010, including those from state sponsors of terror.
Steve Emerson, author of “American Jihad: The Terrorists Living Among Us,” said on Fox News recently that compared with al-Qaida, “Hezbollah has got a greater network, much, much more developed around the world,” including throughout the U.S., and that “potentially Hezbollah can wreak a lot more damage if they chose to attack the United States within the continental borders.”
Border security is national security. The 9/11 Commission said the worst attack on American soil happened in part because of our lack of imagination. We couldn’t conceive of young Islamic men flying passenger jets into building.
Early this year, the Los Zetas paramilitary drug cartel tried to blow up the Falcon Dam near Zapata, Texas, to destroy a rival cartel’s smuggling route. Imagine if it was Hezbollah and the target was America. We’d better start imagining what Hezbollah could do in and from Mexico. Our worst nightmare may be yet to come.
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Seems more like 1984 than 2010—government keeps telling us how great they are, how good things are. Getting very old.
Illegal aliens living in the United States are also more secure than they have ever been since 1990.
Friday, July 16, 2010
An explosion that killed at least three people in Ciudad Juarez was a car bomb set off by a cell phone, a Mexican military spokesman said on Friday. The blast tore through an intersection in Ciudad Juarez across the border from El Paso, Texas, late on Thursday in what the security ministry said was retaliation for the arrest of a drug cartel boss. "There were 10 kilos (22-pounds) of explosives, activated from a distance by a cell phone," Enrique Torres, spokesman for the army in Ciudad Juarez, told Reuters.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2553972/posts
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Friday, August 06, 2010
MEXICO CITY – Investigators said Friday there was an explosive device aboard a car that blew up outside police headquarters in the border state of Tamaulipas, the second car-bomb attack against law enforcement in less than a month.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2566059/posts
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Car bomb explodes outside Mexico TV station, broadcaster says
Friday, August 27, 2010
(CNN) -- A car bomb exploded Friday outside the television studios of CNN affiliate Televisa in Ciudad Victoria, the capital of Tamaulipas state in northeastern Mexico, the station said in a broadcast.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2578585/posts
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Narco Insurgents Assassinate Mexican Detective
Saturday, August 28
Meanwhile, in the Tamaulipas state's capital city of Victoria, two car bombs were detonated outside the Televisa office as reported by Ken Ellingwood for The Los Angeles Times. The drug cartels increasingly have been seeking to intimidate the media from reporting on their violence by threatening, kidnapping and murdering print journalists and television reporters.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2579153/posts
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