Terrorists Said to Seek Entry to U.S. via Mexico

THE WASHINGTON TIMES ^ | April 7, 2003 | By Bill Gertz

[GiovannaNicoletta]

A group of al Qaeda terrorists is attempting to infiltrate the United States from Mexico to conduct attacks in the country, The Washington Times has learned.

At least 14 al Qaeda members are said to be in Mexico, said officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity. The al Qaeda members are working with Mexican organized crime groups, such as drug-trafficking organizations, in an attempt to enter the United States covertly, the officials said.

[DBtoo]

I'm sure they'll cross the border with no problem. Perhaps Vincente Fox will even help out by giving them some of those survival packets he has handed out to Mexicans intent on crossing our borders illegally.

[Free the USA]

fyi

[Reagan is King]

The al Qaeda members are working with Mexican organized crime groups, such as drug-trafficking organizations, in an attempt to enter the United States covertly, the officials said.

Why do they need to use drug-trafficking organizations to try to enter "covertly". Just walk across the border like thousands do every single day! Nobody's watching.

It's sad that we will have to suffer more terrorist attacks in the U.S. because it's politically incorrect to control our borders.

[madfly]

This news makes me feel warm and safe about the Mexican bus station not too far from my house. "Mexico Limousina". If I were a cabbie, I sure wouldn't pick anyone up at that place!

[madfly]

Thanks for the ping. Someone told me last night that Gertz was on Drudge radio talking about this story.

[madfly]

Thanks!

[Free the USA]

your welcome bump

[Mamzelle]

If this is true, I'd also expect some Texas targets.

[thepitts]

A group of al Qaeda terrorists is attempting to infiltrate the United States from Mexico to conduct attacks in the country, The Washington Times has learned.

How many Americans have to die before we close the borders?

[archy]

In February, the CIA concluded in an analysis that Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein is highly likely to use a "third party" terrorist group to conduct a proxy attack on the United States, U.S. officials said.

So it can accurately be said that those American politicians who have failed to close our leaky southern border and continue to resist efforts to do so are actively aiding and abetting Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda terrorists?

That's what I figured they've been doing all along.

-archy-/-

[archy]

If this is true, I'd also expect some Texas targets.

You think?

"We have Nicaragua, soon we will have El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Costa Rica, and Mexico. One day, tomorrow or five years or fifteen years from now, we're going to take 5 to 10 million Mexicans and they are going into Dallas, into El Paso, into Houston, into New Mexico, into San Diego, and each one will have embedded in his mind the idea of killing ten Americans."

--Thomas Borge, Nicaragua Interior Minister as quoted in the Washington Times, March 27, 1985

-archy-/-

[LibertyAndJusticeForAll]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/886255/posts

This is how easy it is to get a large number of unknown people and their "luggage" into this country.

[TLBSHOW]

O'REILLY: The Bush administration has probably spent more money advertising that triangle than they have eradicating anything. This is why I'm stunned. And I can't get a straight answer out of Walters, the drug czar, anybody else, all right, to tell me why.

But I think I know, and that's because they don't want these warlords in Afghanistan who control the narcotics trade to turn on the Karzai government. So they're saying -- they're saying you do what you want, you sell all of the dope you want, leave Karzai alone, and we'll let you do it.

snip

O'REILLY: OK. Now let's go to Mexico. Tons and tons of narcotics coming across from Mexico every single day. The Bush administration won't put the troops on the border even though they now have a reason: national security after 9/11.

snip

HOUSMAN: Well, I think there's a natural hesitancy to deploy the U.S. military at home, but I also think that we're seeing a shift.

I mean, our borders right now are our front lines in the war against terrorism, in the fight against drugs, and these are interrelated problems, and we need to look at more National Guard support for deploying those units in intelligence.

O'REILLY: But we're not.

HOUSMAN: Bill, I agree with you.

O'REILLY: What is it going to take?

HOUSMAN: We ought to be looking at that. Well, I -- sadly, I think one of the things it may take is another disaster, and I hope it doesn't...

O'REILLY: Yes.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/857630/posts

[hot august night]

The fact that Bush still refuses to protect the borders even after all these five-alarm warnings once again demonstrates how he does not care a whit about putting American lives, safety, and property first.

I am grateful that I do not have a family member or close friend risking their lives in Iraq right now. Bush's duplicity concerning our porous borders only serves to make a mockery of our troops' lost lives and sacrifices in Iraq. God bless our servicemen and women, and may they come home to their anxious families soon.

[madfly]

In February, the CIA concluded in an analysis that Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein is highly likely to use a "third party" terrorist group to conduct a proxy attack on the United States, U.S. officials said.

That's what I figured they've been doing all along.

This was "concluded" before congress in Jan. 2000! Excerpt from complete hearing led by Lamar Smith, mainly about Canadian border.

Document

SECOND SESSION
JANUARY 26, 2000

TERRORIST THREATS TO THE UNITED STATES HEARING BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON IMMIGRATION AND CLAIMS

Today the United States and Canada serve as the home for a wide spectrum of international terrorist groups as well as indigenous ''home-grown'' groups. Certainly, today's hearing focuses our attention on the threat of international terrorism on American soil and the porous nature of US borders. While virtually all foreign terrorist organizations from throughout the world, including Latin America and Asia, have set up infrastructures in the United States, the primary threat of international terrorism on American soil stems from Middle Eastern terrorist organizations, a fact that FBI and CIA officials have repeatedly testified to.

These organizations have set up fundraising operations, political headquarters, military recruitment and sometimes even command and control centers. The entire spectrum of Middle Eastern and Islamic terrorist groups now operates on American soil, ncluding Hamas, Hezbollah, the Algerian Armed Islamic Group, the Egyptian Al Gamat Al Islamiya, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the Islamic Liberation Party, the PKK and Al-Qaeda, the organization of Osama bin Laden.
(Again, this information has to be from 1999 and earlier, if hearing was heald Jan. 2000!!!)

There are various reasons for the emergence of these groups in the United States, which include:

Ability to operate under our political radar screen
Ability to hide under mainstream religious identification
Loopholes in immigration procedures
Ease of penetration of borders
Limitations on FBI and other agencies performing law enforcement functions, including INS and Customs
More sophisticated compartmentalization of terrorist cells around loosely structured terrorist movements
Exploitation of freedoms of religion and speech
Absence of a vigilant media
Exploitation of non-profit fundraising prerogatives and lack of government scrutiny
Increasing cross fertilization and mutual support provided by members of different Islamic terrorist groups
Ease of availability of student visas from countries harboring or supporting terrorism
Failures by universities to keep track of foreign students and their spouses
Protection afforded by specially-created educational programs
Ease of visa fraud and the invention of false credentials, from passports, drivers licenses, credit cards and social security numbers
Blowback from the anti-Soviet mujihadeen that the US supported in Afghanistan.

[HiJinx]

U.S. Border Patrol officials said a diary written in Arabic was found last month in a backpack discovered on a southern Arizona trail frequently used by illegal aliens. The diary, according to the officials, contained names and telephone numbers of at least two persons in Canada and Iran.

I'll post this every chance I get until they get it right. It was found O/A February 7, 2003, and was placed in FBI custody on the 11th. This is the diary in the article.

[Joe Hadenuf]

Osama could enter wearing a NY Yankees cap with little effort. As our so-called leaders in DC stand in stone silence.........

[Joe Hadenuf]

Why do they need to use drug-trafficking organizations to try to enter "covertly". Just walk across the border like thousands do every single day! Nobody's watching.

They aren't kidding anyone......

[Joe Hadenuf]

This news makes me feel warm and safe about the Mexican bus station not too far from my house. "Mexico Limousina". If I were a cabbie, I sure wouldn't pick anyone up at that place!

What's ironic is that most cabbies in America are arabs from the Middle East.....LOL.....

Leave it to our government to completely flood America with potential enemy.........