Posted on 09/28/2004 1:28:01 AM PDT by kcvl
A top al Qaeda lieutenant has met with leaders of a violent Salvadoran criminal gang with roots in Mexico and the United States — including a stronghold in the Washington area — in an effort by the terrorist network to seek help infiltrating the U.S.-Mexico border, law enforcement authorities said.
Adnan G. El Shukrijumah, a key al Qaeda cell leader for whom the U.S. government has offered a $5 million reward, was spotted in July in Honduras meeting with leaders of El Salvador's notorious Mara Salvatrucha gang, which immigration officials said has smuggled hundreds of Central and South Americans — mostly gang members — into the United States.
Although they are actively involved in alien, drug and weapons smuggling, Mara Salvatrucha members in America also have been tied to numerous killings, robberies, burglaries, carjackings, extortions, rapes and aggravated assaults — including at least seven killings in Virginia and a machete attack on a 16-year-old in Alexandria that severely mutilated his hands.
The Salvadoran gang, known to law enforcement authorities as MS-13 because many members identify themselves with tattoos of the number 13, is thought to have established a major smuggling center in Matamoros, Mexico, just south of Brownsville, Texas, from where it has arranged to bring illegal aliens from countries other than Mexico into the United States.
Authorities said al Qaeda terrorists hope to take advantage of a lack of detention space within the Department of Homeland Security that has forced immigration officials to release non-Mexican illegal aliens back into the United States, rather than return them to their home countries. Less than 15 percent of those released appear for immigration hearings. Nearly 60,000 illegal aliens designated as other-than-Mexican, or OTMs, were detained last year along the U.S.-Mexico border.
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The gang problem, per se, is bad enough without the danger of AQ infiltration.
I guess, in the early days of these gangs, they paid off enough of law enforcement to look the other way until the problem became too big to contain.
Where is Elliot Ness when we need him?
IMO, I wish you guys were here to protect us. I have often thought, during the OIF deployment, how we need you; but more than that:
With you and the 135,000 other service men and women working hard at your jobs every day, fighting against jihad, keeping us safe from AQ and laying your lives on the line -- I want this country, the U.S.A., to be a place worth coming back to. Our freedom fighters deserve better than the current situation.
But, you already knew that.
Like the old Blood, Sweat & Tears song, "God Bless The Child" goes, "I got my own", but plenty of folks are unarmed and quite unprepared for what's coming. I've got mega-high-power weapons, and several Class III units, but I'm worried about who's going to be watching my back.
Here in Penna, there are over 200,000 registered hunters with all kinds of weapons, who know how to use them. In the emasculated People's Republiks of NJ-NYC-MA-MD-DC etc, it'll be a duckshoot.
BTW, what's the "long arm" for?
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But I am told by fine upstanding Republicans that American's don't care about millions pouring in ever year illegally. That it's just really not a big issue.
Wait a minute, I thought we were in Iraq so the bad guys wont come here. You mean they are coming in here too? My, what a surprise!
What a concept, protecting our own homeland? Hmmmmmm.....
But I thought you guys were over there so the bad guys don't come here?
(sarcasm)
(Sounds like a bad fusion of arab and mexican food ;)
What would one expect from a terrorist and illegal alien?
LOL! True!
I used to live in Hillsborough, so I know the subhuman, liberal-demokkRAT-socialist-commie-nazi, filth you cite, B4B. Just freaking amazing that they're not lampshades or bars of soap. Traitors, all.
EGADS!!!!!
From El Plan Espiritual de Aztlan A nation autonomous and free - culturally, socially, economically, and politically- will make its own decisions on the usage of our lands, the taxation of our goods, the utilization of our bodies for war, the determination of justice (reward and punishment), and the profit of our sweat.
El Plan de Aztlan is the plan of liberation!
Good picture.
check your FR mail
I'll never, never, never understand why the borders have been left so wide open for so long. It simply doesn't compute.
BTTT
Nothing to see here folks, move along....
If they spot them like this, it seems to me there should be a way to ventilate their craniums for them.
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