Islamists target Arizona base

The Washington Times ^ | November 26, 2007 | Sara A. Carter

[Man50D]

Fort Huachuca, the nation's largest intelligence-training center, changed security measures in May after being warned that Islamist terrorists, with the aid of Mexican drug cartels, were planning an attack on the facility.

Fort officials changed security measures after sources warned that possibly 60 Afghan and Iraqi terrorists were to be smuggled into the U.S. through underground tunnels with high-powered weapons to attack the Arizona Army base, according to multiple confidential law enforcement documents obtained by The Washington Times.

"A portion of the operatives were in the United States, with the remainder not yet in the United States," according to one of the documents, an FBI advisory that was distributed to the Defense Intelligence Agency, the CIA, Customs and Border Protection and the Justice Department, among several other law enforcement agencies throughout the nation. "The Afghanis and Iraqis shaved their beards so as not to appear to be Middle Easterners."

According to the FBI advisory, each Middle Easterner paid Mexican drug lords $20,000 "or the equivalent in weapons" for the cartel's assistance in smuggling them and their weapons through tunnels along the border into the U.S. The weapons would be sent through tunnels that supposedly ended in Arizona and New Mexico, but the Islamist terrorists would be smuggled through Laredo, Texas, and reclaim the weapons later.

A number of the Afghans and Iraqis are already in a safe house in Texas, the FBI advisory said.

Fort Huachuca, which lies about 20 miles from the Mexican border, has members of all four service branches training in intelligence and secret operations. About 12,000 persons work at the fort and many have their families on base.

[Ben Ficklin]

I'll believe this Huachuca story when the Mexican radio stations start playing a Narco Corredo ballad about the attack.

There is not much target value there.

[Guenevere]

according to Ben Ficklin

[Ben Ficklin]

Blackwater, Arizona companies in line for narco-terror contracts

[Guenevere]

..and your point is...?

[Ben Ficklin]

Just connecting the dots for you.

[Guenevere]

No thanks, I can connect my own dots...

[gubamyster]

ping

[Dante3]

Exactly. To fight WOT, we need to protect our borders, deport illegal aliens, and cut off immigration from enemy nations and select categories of people.

[Grammy]

Build the damn fence already!

[melancholy]

"The cartels have no loyalty to any nation or person. It isn't surprising that for the right price they would assist terrorists, knowingly or unknowingly."

This is a true statement and the most dangerous part of the open borders equation.

The OBL will always try to minimize this danger in order to pacify the American public.

[Ajnin]

Yet this article, published by a very un-reliable source, says that the cartels are facilitating an event that would not just draw more attention to the border, but would also raise that attention to another level.

The level of attention would remain the same and the adminsitration would play down the event just as they have with the daily violence that is occuring now.

[Tammy8]

Funny, the FBI agent, and Post Commander that were on FOX news this am did not disagree with anything in the story- oh well whatever, keep your head buried.

[backtothestreets]

"You can thank Bush and his Socialist Democrat buddies for this situation."

Don't forget his corrupt Republican buddies that sat by silently in Congress. Both parties are utterly corrupt, not so much the voters registered with the parties, but the party organizations themselves. Most registered voters have been betrayed.

[TheLion]

It is only a matter of time before something happens. My feeling is they are waiting for a Democrat to get in the white house!

[archy]

Yet this article, published by a very un-reliable source, says that the cartels are facilitating an event that would not just draw more attention to the border, but would also raise that attention to another level.

Besides, no one would ever attack a US military base around the Christmas season....