“I wonder how long it will be before the terrorist folks hook up directly with the Mexican drug cartels.”
We’ve had many such reports. If you want drugs, or anything distributed, you look to the Mexican cartels. Remember when Mexico’s president said, ‘where ever you find a Mexican, you find Mexico’? Then there is the fact that Mexico and Iran are active trading partners. And all the prayer rugs, etc. found on the border.
Mar. 2009- Hezbollah Uses Mexican Drug Routes Into U.S. : Homeland Security News
[snip]Hezbollah is using the same southern narcotics routes that Mexican drug kingpins do to smuggle drugs and people into the United States, reaping money to finance its operations and threatening U.S. national security, current and former U.S. law enforcement, defense and counterterrorism officials say.
The Iran-backed Lebanese group has long been involved in narcotics and human trafficking in South America’s tri-border region of Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil. Increasingly, however, it is relying on Mexican narcotics syndicates that control access to transit routes into the U.S.
Hezbollah relies on “the same criminal weapons smugglers, document traffickers and transportation experts as the drug cartels,” said Michael Braun, who just retired as assistant administrator and chief of operations at the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).
“They work together,” said Mr. Braun. “They rely on the same shadow facilitators. One way or another, they are all connected.
http://www.nationalterroralert.com/updates/2009/03/28/hezbollah-uses-mexican-drug-routes-into-us/
2007-
The Mexican Drug Cartel Joins Forces with Al Qaeda?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=762PtpiBfy4
Islamic Terrorists Teaming with Mexican Drug Cartels
http://conservativethoughts.us/2007/08/09/islamic-terrorists-teaming-with-mexican-drug-cartels/
Mexican drug cartels reach Europe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CanA6lnz1U&feature=related
Years ago Don Rumsfeld and several top US officials warned of this.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0411/16/ldt.01.html
DOBBS: Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is warning of the threat of terrorists entering this country through the same routes as those used by illegal aliens. Secretary Rumsfeld, traveling in South America, warned that enemies look for weaknesses and take advantage of them.
DONALD RUMSFELD, SECRETARY OF DEFENSE: The risk is that some of these human-smuggling routes into our country from this hemisphere could be used just as easily for terrorists.
Thanks, AuntB!