[HiJinx]

This was transcribed by myself from tonight's newspaper.

[First_Salute]

Bump.

[A. Morgan]

Thanks for taking the time to enter this. Great work!

[Siobhan]

Declare Islam and enemy ideology, deport every non-US citizen Muslim, and close every mosque and Islamic center.

[TheBattman]

And why is it we haven't closed the borders and increased border patrols ???????

[PoisedWoman]

Thanks! Your hard work was worthwhile.

I wonder whether they gave the entire backpack to authorities or just the diary. If you watch CSI, you know that all kinds of clues, fibngerprints, DNA hair samples, etc most likely dwell in that dingy backpack..perhaps even dust specks that would identify country of origin. Stuff that might not be specified in diary, though that could be a huge find.

[pttttt]

You would know this, but for those who don't live in Sierra Vista - in the desert about 70 miles out of Tucson -- here's what else is there:

US Army Intelligence Center at Fort Huachuca.

Not a lot there for tourists and not a lot of jobs outside the Fort. It's a funny place for Arab visitors to be playing house.

There have been other threads about Arab visitors playing house in Sierra Vista.

[HiJinx]

Pinging you two to another installment in our border saga.

But now, it's off to bed for me. Not much sense waiting up for the database maintenance to happen!

See y'all in the AM.

[Illbay]

SO WHAT DID THE DIARIES SAY?!?!?

I understand the FBI might want to be mum about it, but hasn't someone bothered to translate the bit that you can see in the photo, at least?

[piasa]

fyi

[John H K]

The writing is Arabic but that doesn't mean the actual text is.

Other languages written in Arabic include Kashmiri, Kurdish, Pashto, Persian/Farsi, Sindhi, Turkish, Uyghur, and Urdu.

[slimer]

This is great! They don't want us to know how many arabs are sneeking into the country but they tell us to go out and buy duct tape and plastic to cover the windows.

What a freaking joke!

[cavtrooper21]

I skipped the photo to a buddy who is fluent in Farsi, and he will get back to me tomorrow. Stay tuned sports fans!!!

[Quix]

Earth to USA . . .

Hello? Anyone awake?

Hello? Hello? Hello?

. . .

Maybe the word is just

H*ll!

[SandRat]

Walter Kolbe said he was chasing some javelinas away from his home Thursday when he stumbled upon the backpack. "I found it (the backpack) about a hundred yards from the house, near a barbed-wire fence," he said. "I was just going to throw it in the trash." After his wife went through the backpack, which included dirty clothing, they decided not to discard the material because of the diary. Most of the writing was in Arabic, . . .

Could Walter Kolbe be related to our Congressman Kolbe???

Oh that would be just too good!!

[Irish Eyes]

Bump

[TexRef]

[Redcloak]

Perhaps it was something innocent, like Mom's recipe for Couscous con carne.

[spodefly]

So what if 1000's of illegals cross the border every night. So what if many of them are OTM. So what if Iraqi agents and Al Queda can cross the border too. So what if it is a terrorist's diary they found.

We all have duct tape and plastic sheets, right? We'll be fine.

[kstewskis]

The Kolbes said they wonder how many Middle Eastern people are coming into the United States illegally.

They, and many more Arizonans and Americans who have been screaming since 9/11 for our gov't to seal our borders, not just because of the Mexican invasion, but the "other" countries that are infiltraiting us.

Thanks for the post, will be looking out for updates.

Lock and load.

[vannrox]

Thanks for taking the time to transcibe this. It is appreciated.