The Terrorist Threat On The Mexican Border

From Gateway Pundit:

Terrorist Threat On Border With Mexico


Posted by Lady Liberty on Monday, August 2, 2010, 8:43 AM





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The U.S. Border Patrol uses choppers, ATVs and horses to patrol the 2000-mile border between the Southeastern U.S. and Mexico. Agents say most of the illegals caught crossing are from Mexico or South America. Still, they say thousands of people caught are classified as O.T.M.’s, which stands for “other than Mexican”. They report that includes hundreds of people from nations that sponsor terrorism. Channel 2 Action News anchor Justin Farmer traveled to Arizona to view a detention center near Phoenix. He viewed records that show illegals in custody from from Afghanistan, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, Sudan and Yemen.



People Other Than Mexicans, Including From Terrorist Nations Captured In The Last Two Years



Former Arizona U.S. Rep. J.D. Hayworth has seen the reports. “We have left the back door to the United States open,” he said. “We have to understand there are people who definitely mean to do us harm who have crossed that border.



Farmer talked to an Arizona rancher who didn’t want to be identified because he’s afraid of the Mexican cartels who smuggle drugs near his property. He said he found a Muslim prayer rug on his ranch. “This is one more indication that there is a whole lot more than just a few Mexicans coming into the U.S.”. A recent congressional report on the border threat confirmed members of Hezbollah have crossed the Southwest border. It shows photos of military jackets with Arab insignias found on the border. One depicts a picture of a plane crashing into the twin towers in New York City. Dave Stoddard was a border patrol agent for 20 years. “The American public has been kept in the dark about this issue,” he said. “In my experience, for every one apprehended, at least 10 escape apprehension.” The congressional report also revealed the route Middle Easterners take to get the United States. It showed they travel from Europe to South America, then to the tri-border region. That’s where they learn to speak Spanish. The report said they then travel to Mexico and blend in with other illegals.



Law enforcement officials believe one of the world’s most wanted terrorists may have traveled into the U.S. in 2004 by coming through the mountains on the Mexico border. Federal agents confirmed Adnan Shurkajumah spent time in Atlanta just prior to Sep. 11th, and left on a bus. He is a Saudi Arabian pilot and bomb expert with a $5 million bounty on his head. In 2004, Shurkajumah was one of seven Al-Qaida members agents were looking for after they were spotted in Central America and believed headed to the United States through Mexico . Federal agents now say Shurkajumah seems to have disappeared.



Hayworth said one of the most grave concerns from the congressional report is that Mexican drug cartels will help terrorists smuggle weapons across remote border crossings. “If we learned nothing from 9-11, certainly we should have learned that our borders are important.”









Written Testimony on “Examining Preparedness and Coordination Efforts of First Responders Along the Southwest Border” Before the United States House of Representatives Committee on Homeland Security by Sigifredo Gonzalez, Jr.

Sheriff, Zapata County, Texas

Chairman

Southwestern Border Sheriff’s Coalition



Should you need more reason to be concerned read THIS:



HEZBOLLAH LEADER LIVING ACROSS THE US BORDER IN TIJUANA



Mexico foiled an attempt by Hezbollah to establish a network in South America, a Kuwaiti newspaper reported on Tuesday.



Hezbollah operatives employed Mexicans nationals with family ties to Lebanon to set up the network, designed to target Israel and the West, the Al-Seyassah daily said.



According to the report, Mexican police mounted a surveillance operation on the group’s leader, Jameel Nasr, who traveled frequently to Lebanon to receive information and instructions from Hezbollah commanders there.



Police say Nasr also made frequent trips to other countries in Latin America, including a two-month stay in Venezuela in the summer of 2008.



Nasr was living in Tijuana, Mexico at the time of his arrest, the report said.The report follows warnings from the United States that Hezbollah and its backer Iran are stepping up operations in the region.



And THIS:



CHILLING EFFECT: CARTEL VIOLENCE SILENCES MEXICAN MEDIA



News Of Attacks Scarce Out Of Fear Of Gang Retaliation



NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico — Heavily armed troops patrol the city, combat erupts in the streets and mutilated bodies are dumped in parking lots, ditches and curbs.



After years of relative calm, the gangland nightmare is back — and yet, barely a single mention of the clashes here has been made by local radio and television stations or newspapers. The city’s journalists, having lost some of their own and seen their colleagues across the country killed or kidnapped, have been silenced for fear for their lives.



“Nowhere is the media controlled more than it is here,” said one reporter, who stressed he would face serious danger if identified. “There is total control.”



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“There are situations that terrify you,” said Emilio Fernandez, president of the local chamber of commerce, who said his own daughter now refuses to cross into Mexico from neighboring Laredo.



Neither the mayor nor state or federal officials have offered details about the killings.



Similar news blackouts reign in Matamoros, Reynosa and other cities bordering South Texas where the Zetas, or their former allies in the Gulf Cartel, have a tight grip.



“Before the news was alarmist; now there’s no information at all,” said Carlos Martinez, vice president of another business association.



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Four journalists were kidnapped Monday in the city of Gomez Palacios, another northern city battered by gang warfare. Gangsters demanded that television stations broadcast videos favorable to them in exchange for the journalists’ lives. The station complied, but the men had not been released as of Thursday evening.



Here in Nuevo Laredo, an editor from El Mañ ana, the city’s largest newspaper, was stabbed to death in 2004. A radio reporter was killed in 2005. And in 2006, gunmen attacked El Mañ ana’s newsroom with assault weapons and a grenade, leaving a reporter paralyzed.



Now, journalists say all the local news outlets get constant messages – sometimes from colleagues working for the gangsters – ordering which events are to be covered and those that are not.



Coming to a US city near you? Or is it already here?



THE ARIZONA SMUGGLING CORRIDORS



A Profile of Government In Disarray

Perhaps the greatest threat to the security of the United States today is the 2045 miles of Mexican border. It is there that the drug war in Mexico can be heard at night. It is there that the politics of environmental radicalism has breached the independent thinking of conservation minded leaders. It is there that the very existence of the American experiment may face its toughest challenge.



Lastly, your morning cup of Arrogance and Condescension.



CNN’s resident boy blunder, Rick Sanchez, demands to know, “What’s Your Beef With Illegal Immigration?”