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'Arab terrorists' crossing border: Middle Eastern illegals find easy entrance into U.S. from Mexico
WorldNetDaily.com ^ | Friday, October 19, 2001 | By J. Zane Walley

Posted on 10/18/2001 10:47:46 PM PDT by JohnHuang2

WND Exclusive
COMING TO AMERICA
'Arab terrorists'
crossing border

Middle Eastern illegals find easy entrance into U.S. from Mexico


By J. Zane Walley
© 2001 WorldNetDaily.com

COCHISE COUNTY, Ariz. -- The U.S.-Mexican border here is the most heavily used corridor for illegal alien traffic on America's southern boundary. With its difficult topography that is folded, creased and convoluted, it is a land that yields well to smuggling. The Huachuca, Chiricahua, Dragoon and Whetstone Mountains are riddled with hundreds of deep canyons, caves and arroyos that offer superb concealment for the hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens that annually cross here.

The numbers of unauthorized immigrants smuggled across this porous border dumbfound the imagination. To date, the U.S. Border Patrol has apprehended 158,782 illegals in 2001. By the Border Patrol's own admission, it catches one alien in five, and admits that around 800,000 have slipped across the U.S. line this year. The local ranchers, who have been watching the border for several generations, strongly disagree. They contend the agency only nets one in 10, and estimate that in 2001 over 1.5 million unlawful immigrants have crossed into America in what the Border Patrol calls the Tucson Sector.

Many border ranch-owners are validly apprehensive of speaking about their desperate situations because of likely retribution by narco-militarists (drug runners) and coyotes (smugglers of humans). Unsolved murders and arsons are alarmingly ordinary in Cochise County, so pure fear keeps locals from speaking on the record.


Line of illegals moving across a ranch on the Cochise County, Ariz.-Mexican border. Photo by Donald Barnett, Bisbee, Ariz.

The foot traffic is so heavy that the backcountry has the ambience of a garbage dump and smells like an outdoor privy. In places, the land is littered a foot deep with bottles, cans, soiled disposable diapers, sanitary napkins, panties, clothes, backpacks, human feces, used toilet paper, pharmacy bottles and syringes (the drug runners inject stimulants to keep their energy up).

U.S. Border Patrol agents are doing the best they can, considering their sparse numbers and the impossible terrain they patrol in four-wheel-drive vehicles, quad-runners and on foot. Agents of the Border Patrol have their other fears besides being ambushed by rock-chucking illegals and confrontations with assault-rifle-armed narcos: They are not allowed to speak about what they cope with each day.

As one agent who spoke anonymously said, "Look, I can tell you a lot of stories, but I have to remain unnamed or I will be blackballed and might lose my job." Then, worriedly, he added, "I have a family depending on me."

Another agent, of supervisory rank, stated, "The smuggling traffic of Mexicans has really slowed. We are experiencing a tremendous increase in OTMs" – border lingo for "other than Mexicans." When queried about the ethnic make up of the OTMs, he answered, "Central and South Americans, Orientals and Middle-Easterners." Middle-Easterners? "Yeah, it varies, but about one in every 10 that we catch, is from a country like Yemen or Egypt."

Border Patrol spokesperson Rene Noriega stated that the number of other-than-Mexican detentions has grown by 42 percent. Most of the non-Mexican migrants are from El Salvador and other parts of Central America, she said, but added that agents have picked up people from all over the world, including the former Soviet Union, Asia and the Middle East.


Pick-up truck load of mixed-nationality illegals destined for Tucson or Phoenix, Ariz. Once in those cities, an organized pipeline disburses them across America. The "trucking" is generally handled by street gangs. Photo by Donald Barnett, Bisbee, Ariz.

Arabs have been reported crossing the Arizona border for an unknown period. Border rancher George Morgan encounters thousands of illegals crossing his ranch on a well-used trail. He relates a holiday event: "It was Thanksgiving 1998, and I stepped outside my house and there were over a hundred 'crossers' in my yard. Damnedest bunch of illegals I ever saw. All of them were wearing black pants, white shirts and string ties. Maybe they were hoping to blend in," he chuckled. "They took off, I called the Border Patrol, and a while later, an agent, Dan Green, let me know that they had caught them. He said that they were all Iranians."

According to Border Patrol spokesperson Rob Daniels, "Ten Egyptians were arrested recently near Douglas, Arizona. Each had paid $7,000 to be brought from Guatemala into Mexico and then across the border."

According to the San Diego Union-Tribune, hours after the 9-11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, an anonymous caller led Mexican immigration agents to 41 undocumented Iraqis waiting to cross into the United States.

The Associated Press reported that Mexican immigration police detained 13 citizens of Yemen on Sept. 24, 2001, who were reportedly waiting to cross the border into Arizona. The Yemenis were arrested Sunday in Agua Prieta, across the border from Douglas. Luis Teran Balaguer, assistant head of immigration in the northern state of Sonora, said, "The evidence indicates that they have nothing to do with terrorist activities."


Group of unauthorized immigrants take a rest break on a trail that winds across the Barnett ranch near Douglas, Ariz. Amateur photographer Donald Barnett alerted the Border Patrol and was there for the bust. He noted, "There were people in this batch from Brazil, Salvador, Costa Rica and some Arab countries."

The Agua Prieta, Mexico newspaper, El Ciarin, clearly did not agree with Balaguer's assessment. The editor, Jose Noriega Durazo, claimed in a front-page El Ciarin headline, "ESTUVIERON AQUI TERRORISTAS ARABES!" (The Arab terrorists were here!) El Ciarin quoted Agua Prieta police officials as identifying the 13 Yemenis as terrorists. Reportedly, the Mexican immigration police returned the Yemenis to a federal detention center near Mexico City, but new information would indicate that they were "released" and returned to Agua Prieta.

Carlos X. Carrillo, assistant chief U. S. Border Patrol, Tucson Sector, told WorldNetDaily in a telephone interview Monday that nine Yemenis were reportedly holed up in a hotel in the border town of Agua Prieta, Sonora, Mexico, across the border from Douglas, Ariz.

"We have passed this tip to the FBI," said Carrillo.

When pressed for more information, he said he could not confirm the number of OTMs or Middle-Easterners apprehended while crossing the American/Mexican border. "We are under OP/SEC and cannot divulge this," the chief said. (OP/SEC is a counter-intelligence acronym for operations security.)

A Border Patrol field patrol agent, who spoke anonymously, confirmed the presence of the nine Yemenis. The agent said, "They can't get a coyote to transport them and they are offering $30,000 per person with no takers."

On Oct. 12, a Mexican national, associated with the hotel in Agua Prieta, abandoned it and moved to Arizona -- to hide out. Speaking on condition of anonymity, he told WND: "There were 13 Arabs there when I left. They were paying the coyotes 30 to 50,000 bucks, apiece, to transport them safely into the U.S. I became so frightened I left. They are genuinely bad hombres." Since Carrillo had reported only nine Arabs at the hotel, it is unclear if the missing five Yemenis made it into the U.S. as reported.


Like most ranching families on the Arizona-Mexico border, the Winklers live behind protective bars. "We are having steel gates like this made for all our doors." says Doris Winkler as she peers through an armored entrance. "We never know what kinda of people will try to bust in our home." Photo provided by the Paragon Foundation.

Potential terrorists, stealing across the border, had been predicted well in advance of the World Trade Center disaster. In a May 1, 2000, Report to Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, the General Accounting Office reported, "Alien smuggling is a significant and growing problem. Some are smuggled as part of a criminal or terrorist enterprise that can pose a serious threat to U.S. national security."

Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., in an Oct. 9 speech to the House of Representatives, stated, "It's almost incredible to recognize, as part of the overall strategy this government is going to employ to deal with the issue of terrorism, that we would not concentrate heavily on securing our borders and try to do everything humanly possible to stop people, who have evil intent, from coming into the United States."

Terrorists are well aware that the 4,000-mile border between the U.S. and Mexico is easy to cross, with its vast unmonitored stretches. Their crossing directly into Arizona is of special concern. Arizona appears to have been the home of a "sleeper cell" of Osama bin Laden's worldwide terrorist organization, with a select group of operatives living quietly in bland apartment complexes and obtaining flight training, in preparation for the Sept. 11 attack. The organization's known history in the state goes back nine years. Terror experts say the activities of at least three part-time Arizona residents fit the pattern of the al-Qaida terrorist network.

Sealing the border is a daunting task. Perhaps the most valuable asset that the Border Patrol has is the aid of rural Cochise County citizens. Many have attempted to help, in accordance with Arizona law. Through that legal process, landowners may execute a citizen's arrest for individuals or groups trespassing on their property. However, even that has been nullified. The U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, backed by the American and Mexican media, have characterized citizens who have legally detained aliens as "racist xenophobic vigilantes."


Not a cattle or game trail, but a well-defined human path across the IGO ranch. Photo provided by the Paragon Foundation.

Rural citizens here have met with savage recriminations for exerting their legal rights. Immigration advocacy groups howl in protest, as does the Mexican government. Their lawyers have demanded that the ranchers be prosecuted for false arrest, kidnapping, intimidation, criminal assault and violation of civil rights – anything lawyers can come up with to advance their clients' interests. Illegal immigrants have now sued some Cochise County citizens in American courts.

Ben Anderson, a retired U.S. Army colonel who lives in Sierra Vista, Ariz., has made a detailed study of the border danger since the flood of illegals began through Cochise County in 1997.

"There is only one way to handle this," the colonel says firmly. "In a world now filled with biowarfare agents, backpack nuclear devices and chemical weapons like Sarin gas, we must militarize the border. There is no other way to stop the flow."

Reporter's personal note: "I do not see how the folks living along this border keep going. I am a former U.S. Marine sergeant, and yet the presence of so much apparent violence spooked me. In researching this story, I went backcountry on quad-runners with a goodly couple, Larry and Toni Vance. The first thing they asked me was if I brought a sidearm. When I said, 'no,' they promptly gave me a wheel-gun to strap on. To tell you the truth, that lump of metal was comforting. It's not wise to travel unarmed in a war zone."


If you'd like to sound off on this issue, please take part in the WorldNetDaily poll.


J. Zane Walley is a spokesman for the Paragon Foundation, Alamogordo, N.M., which made this article possible. The Paragon Foundation is "dedicated to preserving the constitutional principles established by the Founding Fathers." Citing Article IV, Section 4 of the U.S. Constitution, Paragon notes: "The United States shall guarantee to every state in this union, a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion." The Paragon Foundation can also be reached at 1-877-847-3443.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aliens; border; illegals; immigrantlist; immigration; iran; iranians; paragonfoundation; terrorism; wot; yemen; yemenis; zanewalley
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To: OKCSubmariner;Marine Inspector
Interesting post OKCSubmariner.

Marine Inspector, Have any comments on OKC's #115 ?

121 posted on 03/10/2002 12:30:29 PM PST by in the Arena
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To: JeepInMazar
The politicians are scared to death of a citizen militia. They don't trust the people and will not allow such a militia to guard the borders. Try talking to your elected rep and just listen to what they have to say. You will be surprised.
122 posted on 03/10/2002 12:35:41 PM PST by gunshy
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To: OKCSubmariner
Bttt!
123 posted on 03/10/2002 12:40:18 PM PST by monkeywrench
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To: b4its2late
Yeah but the drug lords have been building tunnels sneaking both drugs and illegals over. They found a few tunnels one shown on Americas most Wanted yesterday but I guarantee there are many more tunnels between the US and Mexico.
124 posted on 03/10/2002 12:41:21 PM PST by Dengar01
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To: in the Arena;OKCSubmariner
From post #115:

Cochise County, Arizona was mentioned by name as the source for the sudden influx of Middle Eastern aliens. . The number of Middle Eastern aliens that are being caught in Cochise County has skyrocketed, but the BP and the INS are deliberately concealing the numbers for fear of a public panic. This appears to be an army being put in place within the USA, using Cochise County as the conduit. The FBI's analysis is that there is an event coming that will be larger than 9-11, but they don't have any way of stopping it. The event will most likely be someplace other than Cochise County, but that's the route these terrorists are using to get into the USA. The immediate threat is to the landowners in the rural parts of Cochise County, as the feeling is that the terrorists that are coming across right now are very determined and well-funded. They ain't coming here to work at the car wash, Mildred. Any landowner who happens to run across these types is going to face a very real threat.

While it is possible this is happening, I have not heard a thing. I worked for 2 years on the AZ/MEX border and stay in touch with many of the BP Agents and Inspectors I worked with, and none has passed any of this up my way in Phoenix. This does not mean it is not happening, but I think I would have heard something by now. INS officers, like anyone else, love to talk and pass info, and if this was happening, someone would have leaked it out to the other officers involved with enforcing the border, not some one in Georgia.

Just MHO.

125 posted on 03/10/2002 1:23:29 PM PST by Marine Inspector
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To: OKCSubmariner
China's Silent Invasion
"Mexico's top drug trafficking cartel, run by the Arellano Felix brothers in Tijuana, is working closely with the Chinese. According to Jamie Dettmer, writing in the August 23 issue of Insight magazine, ships arriving in Mexico from China may contain "more than illegal immigrants." The Chinese are pumping people and supplies into Mexico, and the cargo is considered so sensitive that it is "often under the apparent protection of Chinese and Mexican naval vessels."

"Setting aside the issue of dangerous drugs and illegal immigration, the reason we should worry about drug and alien smuggling into this country, and the reason that no effort should be spared in making our borders impenetrable, is because nuclear and biological weapons can be smuggled into the country by the same routes that illegal narcotics are smuggled. According to Colonel Stanislav Lunev, highest ranking defector from the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Russian General Staff, narcotics trafficking is a way of establishing secure pathways into the United States. If there is a hole in our border due to corruption by drug traffickers, that hole can be used to ship more than narcotics. It can be used to ship suitcase nuclear bombs."

"Chasing down immigrants who illegally stay in the United States too long has been a low priority and should remain that way, said Doris Meissner, the former commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service."

The Old Boss:

Concerned Americans Are Terrorists

Department of Justice Memo:
Cover Memo
Page 2
Page 3
Page 4
Page 5

Summary and Conclusion:

"The active participation of known racial supremacy hate groups and their association presents an opportunity for recruitment and potential for acts of violence. If carried out, these violent acts will most likely be against illegal aliens. Although unlikely, a scenario where an act of violence against a U.S. Border Agent, made to look as if an illegal alien committed it, could present itself in a favorable way to support these anti-immigration organizations and supremacy hate groups cause. The other possible threat scenario could be carried out against an illegal alien, with the blame placed upon the Border Patrol. In either case, the safety and well-being of the Border Patrol Agent would be in jeopardy."

The New Boss:

Americans Who Defend the Constitution Are Terrorists

IN PHOENIX WE'RE TERRORISTS

"Defending Our Constitution"

Immigration fraud 'out of control'

Aliens enjoy easy access to pilot's licenses - Feds charge 9 illegals working for commercial airlines in U.S.

Arab flight students streaming into U.S.

Suspected illegals caught at sub base - U.S. Border Patrol arrests 10 aliens working at San Diego naval facility

Suburban Washington's terror trail - Illegal aliens helped alleged hijackers obtain Virginia ID cards

Bush's scary CAIR friends

Bush's terrorist buddy

Bush's terrorist buddy, Part 2

Terrorist-enabling neighbors

Borderline behavior: Mexican Ambassador Jeffrey Davidow

Clinton Administration Shuts Down U.S. Drug Probe On Top Mexican Official

PRESIDENT FOX GUARDING NARCO-HEN HOUSE

Eduardo Valle, former advisor, Attorney General in Mexico: "Drug trafficking has permeated all political structures and has corrupted federal, state, and local officials. It has deformed the economy. It is a cancer that has generated financial and political dependence, which instead of producing goods, has created serious problems ultimately affecting honest businessmen. The Attorney General's office is unable to eradicate drug trafficking because government structures at all levels are corrupted."

Federal whistleblower reveals terror threat

Former Customs agent alleges corruption Blows whistle on drug deals, smuggling, payoffs, bribes

Currency violations, payoffs at Customs?

Sniff, sniff.

Coming to America. Poor illegal immigrants with just their suitcases in hand.

Amnesty for illegals: An attack on sovereignty - Don Feder

William C. Patrick III, an expert on biological warfare, demonstrated a few months ago how porous our defenses against terrorist attacks are by smuggling seven-and-a-half grams of powdered anthrax through security and into a House Select Committee on Intelligence hearing. Displaying the deadly sample, he declared, "I've been through all the major airports, and the security systems of the State Department, the Pentagon, even the CIA, and nobody has stopped me. Seven-and-a-half grams would take care of the Rayburn Building and all the people in it."

SEAL OUR BORDERS

126 posted on 03/10/2002 2:58:16 PM PST by Uncle Bill
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To: Travis McGee,harpseal,Marine Inspector,In the arena, Uncle Bill,Ronneil,ratcat,honway,Fred Mertz,
Please see replies #114 and #115. Also see reply #125. Thanks.

I have been told that the man David Stoddard (Border Patrol veteran) allegedly received the letter in reply #115 and that he passed it to a radio program in Salt Lake City (he has been a guest several times I am told). Stoddard would be known to the local listening audience there.

This story needs to be tracked down. If true something needs to be done. If not true, David Stoddard or the Salt Lake radio program needs to be questioned about why it is not true if it is not true.

I am inclinmed to give the letter some weight for consideration because it is consistent with the WND article of this thread, names Cochise County and because the people at the Salt Lake radio station have been honest with me in the past.

127 posted on 03/10/2002 3:04:19 PM PST by OKCSubmariner
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To: gunshy
An armed citizens militia? Forget it, ever.

The political class will not even trust former military pilots flying commercial jets to have access to pistols in the cockpits for a last ditch attempt to prevent the next 9-11.

They'd prefer to shoot the entire jetliner down (killing all aboard) with an Air Force F-16 fighter.

Why? The fighter jet is flown by an active duty military pilot who is under the direct control of the National Command Authority chain of command.

It's all about control.

They want it all, and they don't want the peasants to have any.

128 posted on 03/10/2002 3:21:45 PM PST by Travis McGee
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To: JohnHuang2
The way President Bush is handling the borders may lead to his defeat. I'll never vote for a democrat because they want open borders as well. If our country collapses it will be because the politicians refused to control our borders. I won't vote for President Bush again if he opens our borders like the democrats want. How in the world can anyone do anything about this serious problem?
129 posted on 03/10/2002 3:23:40 PM PST by Renatus
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To: OKCSubmariner;Marine Inspector
Oh, I'm not questioning your opinion...I was hoping Marine Inspector would have some insight...I believe he works for the Border Patrol in AZ...

The open border policy is serious business...drugs, criminals, terrorists...etc...things like this should not be taken lightly...

130 posted on 03/10/2002 3:29:21 PM PST by in the Arena
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To: Uncle Bill
The Americans are going to be in for a big suprise.....when the word is given!
131 posted on 03/10/2002 3:34:09 PM PST by Eternal_Bear
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To: OKCSubmariner
Thanks for the advice bump.
132 posted on 03/10/2002 3:40:44 PM PST by Vigilantcitizen
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To: in the Arena
I believe he works for the Border Patrol in AZ...

I'm an Inspector at the airport in Phoenix. I was on the border from 1998 to 2000.

I'll check with some of my buds and see what I can find out.

133 posted on 03/10/2002 4:42:07 PM PST by Marine Inspector
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To: Spiff
I've read this story before, probably here!
134 posted on 03/10/2002 6:59:28 PM PST by Chapita
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To: Marine Inspector
Thanks for letting us know what, if anything, you find out. Please flag me. Thanks.
135 posted on 03/10/2002 7:09:03 PM PST by Fred Mertz
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To: OKCSubmariner
Monday morning top o' the day bump.
136 posted on 03/11/2002 3:11:32 AM PST by Wm Bach
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To: OKCSubmariner
The number of Middle Eastern aliens that are being caught in Cochise County has skyrocketed, but the BP and the INS are deliberately concealing the numbers for fear of a public panic. This appears to be an army being put in place within the USA, using Cochise County as the conduit. The FBI's analysis is that there is an event coming that will be larger than 9-11, but they don't have any way of stopping it.

But we can be very thankful here in the Northeast that it is absolutely impossible for these Middle Easterners to get to the urban Northeast from Cochise County.</sarcasm Now if something bigger than 9/11 is in the works then we have to consider that the most likely threat is NBC but with a significant number of bodies to do the job they do not necessarily have to bring a weapomn of mass destruction into our nation. I will not bother reitterating a target list that would have very significant secondary effects that could kill many thusands. Suffice to day the list includes indutrial facilities and transdportaion facities.

Six months have passed since the Pentagon, Flt 93 and the WTC. It was almost eleven months from the USS Cole attack until September 11, 2001. I guess we shall see what the opposition can do sometime soon. My biggest worry is that some of security organizations have a whole lot more self confidence than is justified by past performance.

Stay well - stay safe- Stay armed - Yorktown

137 posted on 03/11/2002 6:03:47 AM PST by harpseal
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To: JohnHuang2
Fwiw, one of the guys caught up in the phony Tennessee drivers license scam, (where the state employee aiding and abetting the middle eastern illegals was found burnt to a crisp), he walked into the US via Mexico.
138 posted on 03/11/2002 6:11:10 AM PST by csvset
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To: rdavis84; mancini; Fred Mertz
call me a KooK

call me a goombah

call me a conspiro-loon

call me a tin foiler

but don't call me STUPID!

139 posted on 03/12/2002 12:47:18 PM PST by thinden
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To: Marine Inspector
Bttt!
140 posted on 03/12/2002 1:03:54 PM PST by monkeywrench
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