Chechen terrorists probed

Washington Times ^ | 12 Oct 04 | Bill Gertz

[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

Chechen terrorists probed

By Bill Gertz

THE WASHINGTON TIMES

U.S. security officials are investigating a recent intelligence report that a group of 25 Chechen terrorists illegally entered the United States from Mexico in July.

The Chechen group is suspected of having links to Islamist terrorists seeking to separate the southern enclave of Chechnya from Russia, according to officials familiar with intelligence reports.

Members of the group, said to be wearing backpacks, secretly traveled to northern Mexico and crossed into a mountainous part of Arizona that is difficult for U.S. border security agents to monitor, said officials speaking on the condition of anonymity.

The intelligence report was supplied to the U.S. government in late August or early September and was based on information from an intelligence source that has been proved reliable in other instances, one official said.

A second U.S. official said the report is being investigated, but said it could not be determined whether the group of Chechens actually entered the country, as the intelligence source reported.

"We don't know whether or not that report is true," this official said. A spokesman for U.S. Customs and Border Protection confirmed ...

[Happy2BMe]

New England. New York. Michigan. New Jersey, etc.

[Happy2BMe]

First, the Saturday People

How do you confine a billion people who have one thing - murder - in mind? Is there a jail big enough? Is there a fence long enough?

Or should the rest of us bolt our doors and hide under the covers?

As President Bush protests too much about their "peaceful religion," the New York Post, in its editorial upon the second anniversary of 9/11, tells it straight: "Much of Islam, with its billion plus adherents, and even many in the West — in countries like France and Germany – despise America, its freedoms, and particularly its success."

Ditto Israel, except that Israel comes first. As they say in their sermons – "First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people."

Bush believes he has the answer. He is sending in 87 billion dollars to find Thomas Jefferson in that seventh century feud-crazed swamp that is Iraq. Talk about finding a needle in a haystack.

So now we sit back and wait for Iraq to become a light unto the nations, along with the 21 other backwater regimes that make up part of the Arab world.

How can I disagree with two men who are counted among our leading intellectuals? But I do. Both Daniel Pipes and Bernard-Henri Levy say that Fanatical Islam is the problem. Moderate Islam is the answer. I hope they're right. But I am not so sure. For all I know, it was "moderate" Islam that gave us 9/11, and it is moderate Islam that continues to give Israel 9/11 every single day.

Fanatical Islam hasn't yet been heard from.

Those who think it's all about Israel are indeed hiding under the covers. As they slumber, another mosque grows in Brooklyn. (Certainly in Toronto and Paris.)

How can I dispute Rush Limbaugh and his millions of radio listeners? I am in his corner when he is strong on America and Israel. But this time he's wrong. Dead wrong when he defends Bush's 87 billion for Iraq. He says it's for democracy. You cannot buy democracy, Rush, and you cannot sell democracy. You can impose tyranny. You cannot impose liberty.

That is not the Bill of Rights they pray to five times a day in their mosques. Bush is pleased that the schools are running again over there, but does he have a clue as to what (besides hatred for the West) the imams are teaching those kids? By the way, that 87 billion dollar figure is nearly triple the amount the federal government spends on America's schools.

We're dreamers, those of us here in America, and no wonder; we live in a land flowing with milk and money.

Innocents abroad, we believe that the lands of the keffiyeh are ready for Britney Spears and the Monroe Doctrine (take your pick between James and Marilyn).

So we let Israel bleed to death on the proposition that Israel has justice, but no oil.

Israel says Arafat must go and the world rises up in defense of the most prolific killer since Adolph Hitler. Another country, America, is heard from as well.

Maybe it's not the oil. Maybe it's something more sinister that prompts the world, and our State Department, to side with terror, as long as it is "only" Israelis who are dying.

Some dare call it anti-Semitism.

A bride of Israel, Nava, along with her father, David Applebaum, a doctor, a healer, are murdered, and don't touch, you say, don't touch a hair on Arafat's head. Perhaps, Mr. Powell, you were out playing golf with Prince Bandar when this happened. So you are unaware that your State Department spokesman went on TV to warn Israel to keep Arafat safe and snug.

(After Pearl Harbor, would our secretary of state of that time have been golfing with a diplomat from Japan?)

As for you masters of Europe and your treachery; one day your sly anti-Semitism will come back to haunt you. Over the centuries, you have uprooted a thousand synagogues and replaced them with ten thousand mosques. Wait, now, and see what grows from the soil of Ishmael. Your churches are next.

For Sunday is coming, Sunday bloody Sunday.

Canada Weighs Using Muslim Law

[atomicweeder]

It's illegal to cross except at manned border crossings. Everywhere else can be handled with minefields, and those sentry weapons they used in Aliens.

[Types_with_Fist]

They try it and not one of them will leave this country alive.

Well, I've noticed that this doesn't necessarily bother Muslims much. If this report is true I doubt they even have plans to get out alive. They are ready to "die for Allah."

[Imaverygooddriver]

Why dont they put loud speakers all along the border and blast the music of the vote for change concert featuring Bruce "The working class millionaire" Springsteen, John Cougar Mellonhead, the Dixie splits, Jackson Boring Browne, James Tiresome Taylor, Kenny stupid name "Babyface" Edmonds, Pearl Jam aka gay slang for jizz on bread and R.E.M.ove? When they see how much we are suffering already they will take mercy on us.

[redgolum]

Ping for book mark.

[Types_with_Fist]

I swear to God I thought after 9/11 we would shut down the border...

That was my very first thought as well. We got just about everything else except this. Okay, I know many here disagree about trying to control our own borders. I know the president has said he doesn't think it's possible.

I don't understand how we believe we can turn Iraq into a "democracy" but we believe controlling our own borders from this on-going invasion is "impossible."

[GarySpFc]

This doesn't make sense. Why would Chechan terrorists go through all the trouble to come over here? If they are really fighting for their homeland they would attack Russia again...

It makes perfect sense when you grasp that Chechens make up a large portion of al-Qaeda. While some of the Chechens are separatists the majority are members of al-Qaeda. Wherever you find al-Qaeda fighting you will find some are Chechens.

[DoctorMichael]

Bttt

[raptor29]

"I swear to God I thought after 9/11 we would shut down the border - Bush would be 60% in the polls now."

I agree completely, been saying this for two years. We would have ended up with even MORE of the hispanic vote than we will anyway, because many of the hispanics currently in America, who have been here for a while, are troubled by illegal immigration which threatens their jobs and security. This issue is the pretty much the only Bush policy that I cannot defend when challenged. It was such a no-brainer, and Bush's geniuses like Rove blew the call and might have blown a very important election.

[MarMema]

Kavkaz was back up, briefly, from Finland, but Russia managed to close it down again. It was only up for a few days.

A citizen of British Colombia was killed fighting with the chechens but he sounded islamic to begin with. The Russians displayed his passport on TV but the family in Canada says they don't believe the Russians.

[ApesForEvolution]

just damn

[ApesForEvolution]

They try it and not one of them will leave this country alive. No joke.

These illegal invaders must be neutralized immediately...Tom Ridge is on the job, so we're ok.../xxxs

[ApesForEvolution]

How do you "close" 22,000 miles of border?

The same way you build Star Wars missile defense and a billion miles of interstate...you just do it.

[ApesForEvolution]

TFTP FRiend...

[ApesForEvolution]

No there are not. Are you willing to give up your life to play soldier on the border? Hell no.

LOL. Stay out of my foxhole...

[1_Inch_Group]

Agreed...

How much you want to bet that the Feds will end up prosecuting the vigilante groups faster than they find the 25 Chechnyans.

[ApesForEvolution]

Insightful Post BTTT

[ApesForEvolution]

BOOOOOO!!! BOOOOOO!!!

[ApesForEvolution]

Makes you wonder who's cutting the lawn, cleaning the house and generally working for peanuts for el jefe, no?