Drug Cartels Import Islamic Illegal Alien Terrorists into US to attack base!
Posted on Monday, November 26 @ 14:02:18 EST
Topic: Illegal Immigrant Gangs Terrorists
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 Islamic terrorists target Army base -- in Arizona
By Sara A. Carter
November 26, 2007
The Washington Times
Fort Huachuca, the nation's largest intelligence-training center,
changed security measures in May after being warned that Islamist
terrorists, with the aid of Mexican drug cartels, were planning an
attack on the facility.
Fort officials changed security measures after sources warned that
possibly 60 Afghan and Iraqi terrorists were to be smuggled into the
U.S. through underground tunnels with high-powered weapons to attack
the Arizona Army base, according to multiple confidential law
enforcement documents obtained by The Washington Times.
"A portion of the operatives were in the United States, with the
remainder not yet in the United States," according to one of the
documents, an FBI advisory that was distributed to the Defense
Intelligence Agency, the CIA, Customs and Border Protection and the
Justice Department, among several other law enforcement agencies
throughout the nation. "The Afghanis and Iraqis shaved their beards so
as not to appear to be Middle Easterners."
According to the FBI advisory, each Middle Easterner paid Mexican
drug lords $20,000 "or the equivalent in weapons" for the cartel's
assistance in smuggling them and their weapons through tunnels along
the border into the U.S. The weapons would be sent through tunnels that
supposedly ended in Arizona and New Mexico, but the Islamist terrorists
would be smuggled through Laredo, Texas, and reclaim the weapons later.
A number of the Afghans and Iraqis are already in a safe house in Texas, the FBI advisory said.
Fort Huachuca, which lies about 20 miles from the Mexican border,
has members of all four service branches training in intelligence and
secret operations. About 12,000 persons work at the fort and many have
their families on base.
Lt. Col. Matthew Garner, spokesman for Fort Huachuca, said details
about the current phase of the investigation or security changes on the
post "will not be disclosed."
"We are always taking precautions to ensure that soldiers, family
members and civilians that work and live on Fort Huachuca are safe,"
Col. Garner said. "With this specific threat, we did change some
aspects of our security that we did have in place."
According to the FBI report, some of the weapons associated with
the plot have been smuggled through a tunnel from Mexico to the U.S.
The FBI report is based on Drug Enforcement Administration sources,
including Mexican nationals with access to "sub-sources" in the drug
cartels. The report's assessment is that the DEA's Mexican contacts
have proven reliable in the past but the "sub-source" is of uncertain
reliability.
According to the source who spoke with DEA intelligence agents, the
weapons included two Milan anti-tank missiles, Soviet-made
surface-to-air missiles, grenade launchers, long guns and handguns.
"FBI Comment: The surface-to-air missiles may in fact be RPGs," the
advisory stated, adding that the weapons stash in Mexico could include
two or three more Milan missiles.
The Milan, a French-German portable anti-tank weapon, was developed
in the 1970s and widely sold to militaries around the world, including
Saddam Hussein's Iraq. Insurgents in Iraq reportedly have used a Milan
missile in an attack on a British tank. Iraqi guerrillas also have shot
down U.S. helicopters using RPGs, or rocket-propelled grenades.
FBI spokesman Paul Bresson would not elaborate on the current
investigation regarding the threat, but said that many times the
initial reports are based on "raw, uncorroborated information that has
not been completely vetted." He added that this report shows the extent
to which all law enforcement and intelligence agencies cooperate in
terror investigations.
"If nothing else, it provides a good look at the inner working of
the law-enforcement and intelligence community and how they work
together on a daily basis to share and deal with threat information,"
Mr. Bresson said. "It also demonstrates the cross-pollination that
frequently exists between criminal and terrorist groups."
The connections between criminal enterprises, such as powerful drug
cartels, and terrorist organizations have become a serious concern for
intelligence agencies monitoring the U.S.-Mexico border.
"Based upon the information provided by the DEA handling agent, the
DEA has classified the source as credible," stated a Department of
Homeland Security document, regarding the possibility of an attack on
Fort Huachuca. "The identity of the sub-source has been established;
however, none of the information provided by the sub-source in the past
has been corroborated."
The FBI advisory stated the "sub-source" for the information "is a
member of the Zetas," the military arm of one of Mexico's most
dangerous drug-trafficking organizations, the Gulf Cartel. The Gulf
Cartel controls the movement of narcotics from Nuevo Laredo, Mexico,
into the U.S. along the Laredo corridor.
However, the sub-source "for this information is of unknown reliability," the FBI advisory stated.
According to the DEA, the sub-source identified Mexico's Sinaloa
cartel as the drug lords who would assist the terrorists in their plot.
This led the DEA to caution the FBI that its information may be a
Gulf Cartel plant to bring the U.S. military in against its main rival.
The Sinaloa and Gulf cartels have fought bloody battles along the
border for control of shipping routes into the U.S.
"It doesn't mean that there isn't truth to some of what this source
delivered to U.S. agents," said one law-enforcement intelligence agent,
on the condition of anonymity. "The cartels have no loyalty to any
nation or person. It isn't surprising that for the right price they
would assist terrorists, knowingly or unknowingly."
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