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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Isn't it funny how the Open Borders Uber Alles crowd couldn't find this thread?
More book material?
Yeah, and one of the biggest frauds on the Free Republic showed up, just above this post.
OK its time for a purge. All these freaky illegals need to get out of the country.
Lets shut down the damn borders if we value our own hides, but alas washington (and bush for that matter) do not give a damn about the illegals.
Dumbest Freeper ever.
It's not even close Joe.
How do we make that happen? Specifically.
BTW ... flushing the 4th Amendment down the toilet is a non starter.
So how do we locate and deport all these "freaky" freaks?
We have smart people working in this country . The illegals can be rooted out if a decent effort is supplied. Gangs that are here illegally do not have american rights!
Just watching history unfold Arne, instead of assuming your Ostrich Defense posture.
Decent effort is being supplied. Give me a break.
I hate how this vital issue has been corruptly demogauged beyond recognition here.
So it goes.
You write fiction.
No, if decent effort were supplied then these gangs would not be waltzing into the country and raising hell.
If sanity were being applied no arabs and muslims would be allowed in.
Well at least Arne has arrived to defend open borders for Al Queda.
Who are you to criticize him for that? That has no relation to his opinions in this thread!
You've got to be joking? This Barlowfraud is Arne Funkin?
I really have no idea what you are talking about.
You are correct. That was a cheap shot. I asked the Mods to pull the post.
He did that because he *is* a cheap shot and a fraud.
Did you spill a motorcycle?
Appears so.
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