Posted on 02/21/2002 10:54:49 AM PST by week 71
As part of my travels around the US, Canada and Mexico, I have encountered numerous testimonies regarding cases of Islamic infiltration in the US. After many lectures I have given in churches, people would come up to me and would share with me their personal experiences.
My first experience was right after Desert Storm in 1991. I had spoken in Brownsville, Texas and afterwards the pastor, the elders of the church and their wives took me out to dinner. One of the ladies mentioned that her son was a former senior Green Beret officer stationed in that area. There was, she said, a contingency plan for a terrorist attack in Brownsville, from across the Mexican border. When I asked, "What problem do you have with the Mexicans?" she answered me, "Not with the Mexicans but with the agents of Saddam Hussein." A few years later, in 1997, after the appearance of the fifth edition of my book, "Is Fanatic Islam a Global Threat?" I returned to that same church and thanked them for the "Green Beret" testimony that was in my book. At the reception following my lecture, three people came up to me to apologize for not having been able to come to church years before during my first visit, but that they, too, had had experiences they needed to share with me.
The first was a former cop, who remembered receiving an urgent call for assistance at 4AM from his sheriff who was calling from Boca Chica, the point where the Rio Grande River (the US-Mexican border) flows into the Gulf of Mexico. This deputy and another officer joined the sheriff and found him aiming his gun at six men seated in the back of an open van as well as at two seated in the front seats.
The six men in the back of the van were wet from the waist down because they had just waded across the Rio Grande. After handcuffing these men, and removing them from the van, the three police officers' suspicions were aroused by the fact that none of these men spoke Spanish (They were Palestinians.), and that the van was sagging very low to the ground. They started emptying out the van and found AK-47 Kalatschnikov machine guns, cemtex plastique dynamite as well as other weapons. When they called in the Border Patrol, the latter explained that this was "too big" for them to deal with because the Border Patrol deals only with Mexicans coming across looking for work, and not Islamic terrorists. So they called in the ATF from Houston. When the ATF agents arrived, they swooped up the terrorists, the weapons and the van and took them back to Houston.
The next day, these three Brownsville cops were filling out their reports. The ATF reappeared, shredded the reports and told them to forget about the affair, that it "never happened." The former cop told me that this took place in 1982-83 (during Israel's "Operation Peace in the Galilee" commonly known as the Lebanon War) and that indeed he had forgotten about it until I appeared in his church in 1997! The second testimony was that of a lady from the church who was a State of Texas health inspection official. She related that there had just been a seminar held on South Padre Island by the Texas Department of Health regarding biological and chemical warfare. She and other coworkers were told to look for "anthrax, botulism, bubonic plague as well as 20 other biological maladies."
When she mentioned to her superiors that these had all been eradicated in Texas decades ago, she was told, "Look for it. It is there. Find it. Deal with it." When she answered them asking, "But who would do something like this and why?" her superiors answered her, "It's not our job to tell you who or why. Just look for it and find it." This woman then said to me, "After hearing you in church, I now know who and why!" By the way, at the back of my book, "Fanatic Islam", I report on a press conference held at the very end of 1997 by then US Secretary of Defense William Cohen. Cohen appeared holding up a 5-pound bag of Domino Sugar and said, "This much anthrax could destroy the world." He added, "At this very moment, 28 US cities are being targeted by" what he euphemistically called, "religious and nationalist fanatics, for anthrax, botulism, bubonic plague as well as 20 other maladies." This press conference was never re-aired or replayed.
The third testimony involved a State of Texas house of detention called "Casa Romero" and that 30% of the inmates there, who had been apprehended crossing the Rio Grande, did not speak Spanish. Guess where they were from?!" In a recent report appearing on Jo Farah's worldnetdaily.com, there was an interview with Mexico's National Security Adviser Adolfo Zinser that Mexico's police and military were coordinating their activities with their American colleagues in apprehending the considerable Islamic terrorist concentrations on their common border. This appeared in July in the Mexican daily "Universal" and in San Diego's Union Tribune.
On the Canadian side of the border, there have also been attempts at infiltration of Islamic terrorists. A famous but failed attempt was that of Algerian terrorist Ahmed Ressam who tried to smuggle in bomb-makings in the trunk of his car. He was apprehended after crossing into the US on a ferryboat from Canada. At first, it was thought his objective was blowing up the space needle of Seattle. Later, under interrogation, it was revealed that his target was LAX, Los Angeles International Airport. I have many more testimonies such as the above. The American borders with Mexico and Canada are very porous and penetrable. Not mentioned in this article is just how easy it has been to infiltrate the US via the major airports with false passports. This was also reported in the 1994 Steven Emerson/PBS anti-terrorist documentary "Jihad in America." America now has no choice but to wake up and deal with these Islamic terrorist phenomena.
1. the infiltration has been occurring (being attempted) for 20+ years,
2. we've had two successful terrorist attacks in that time,
3. we're addressing the threat and fairly succeeding.
Add to this the 'war on terror' and the 'axis of evil' and I think you've got the makings of a successful campaign.
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