Thread: Congresswoman: Hezbollah crossing U.S. - Mexico border

Myrick suspects terrorists crossing U.S.-Mexico border

Congresswoman believes Hezbollah is in Mexico, wants task force to investigate.

By Barbara Barrett
Washington correspondent
Posted: Wednesday, Jun. 30, 2010


Rep. Sue Myrick will meet tonight with Charlotte's Muslim community.

WASHINGTON U.S. Rep. Sue Myrick has asked Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano to step up investigations of terrorists who might be operating on the U.S.-Mexico border.

Myrick, a member of the House Intelligence Committee, wants Napolitano to convene a task force on the presence of Hezbollah in Mexico.

"I believe Hezbollah and the drug cartels may be operating as partners on our border," Myrick wrote to Napolitano, who is secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, in a letter last week. "I believe we need to do more intelligence gathering on Hezbollah's presence on our border."

The task force, Myrick writes, would comprise U.S. and Mexican law enforcement and border patrol agents sharing information. She asks for both a public report and an intelligence report about Hezbollah's organization, activities and ties to gangs and drug cartels.

Myrick, a Charlotte Republican, declined to be interviewed for this article because of scheduling conflicts.

Homeland Security spokesman Matt Chandler said Tuesday in a prepared statement that the agency will respond directly to Myrick about her request.

"At this time, DHS does not have any credible information on terrorist groups operating along the Southwest border," he said.

Chandler said the agency uses "an intelligence-driven, layered enforcement approach" to securing the border, and that it works with law enforcement agencies in other countries.

As evidence of Hezbollah's connection to the Latino Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13 gang, Myrick's letter includes photographs of two prisoners' tattoos - one of which reads Hezbollah, the other of which, she wrote, is a Farsi translation of MS-13.

"We have typically seen tattoos in Arabic, but Farsi implies a Persian influence that can likely be traced back to Iran and its proxy army, Hezbollah," Myrick writes. "These tattoos in Farsi are almost always seen in connection with gang or drug cartel tattoos."

Myrick's request comes as drug-related violence in Mexico is in the news. President Felipe Calderon asked for the United States' continued cooperation in fighting violence during his recent trip to Washington.

Throughout Mexico, drug-related violence has cost some 23,000 lives since 2006.

It's known that Hezbollah is working in the western hemisphere, and intelligence officials have long monitored Hezbollah's drug-trafficking work in what's known as the tri-border region of Paraguay, Brazil and Argentina.

Myrick cites unnamed intelligence officials in her letter, and bases much of her information on a 2006 report from the Republican staff of a Homeland Security congressional subcommittee. The report warned of the threat from terrorist groups to the United States' southwestern border.

The report said about 250 illegal aliens were apprehended in 2005 from countries of special interest, or those countries which could export individuals who might harm the United States through terrorism. (There were an estimated 1.2 million undocumented immigrants apprehended that year.)

The committee also reported that members of Hezbollah already have crossed into the United States across its southwestern border. It pointed in part to the 2005 conviction of a man who had been smuggled across the U.S.-Mexico border and was providing financial support to Hezbollah.

"A task force could explore all these issues," Myrick wrote. "It is vital we know what is happening on our border, especially as crime and violence continue to rise there and as terrorist plots and threats are increasing inside the United States."

I admire this woman's courage. "OUR" government does not want us to know that terrorist groups are crossing the Border.

Are Americans so stupid to believe that only hard working poor Mexicans looking for work know how wide open our Borders are? We have people plotting to kill us on our own land and the Feds refuse to protect us. What is this country going to be like in 10 years if we do not secure the border? Mexico?

If Hezbolah or Al Qaida teams up with teams up with The Mexican Aztlan Cartels?

Mexican and African Nationals Headed For Our Country

TEN AFRICANS DETAINED IN EL SALVADOR

Printed in El Mundo News Paper (San Salvador, El Salvador) 7/12/10

A Salvadorian was detained yesterday when he was caught guiding a group of 10 Africans on the Pan American Highway near the town of Verapaz.

David Reyes Larios, 35, was charged with the crime of Human Trafficking.

The National Civil Police confirmed that Reyes Larios was apprehended at a police checkpoint.

The Africans were traveling in a microbus. Among them were four from Somalia, five from Eritrea and one from Nigeria. The Police said all of them presented personal identification.

Police Investigators determined that Reyes is part of an international human trafficking operation.

SPECIAL NOTE: THE AFRICAN’S DESTINATION WAS THE UNITED STATES.

http://borderissues.us/

If you think this administration cares about the safety and well-being of American citizens, raise your hand. Not everyone at once please.

Top Obama officials worried U.S. terror attack by Al Shabaab may be next after Uganda bombings


BY Wil Cruz In New York and James Gordon Meek In Washington
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS

Concerns that Somali terrorists might stage a brazen attack on America are on the rise after the deadly Uganda bombings, senior Obama administration officials said Tuesday.

Al Qaeda-aligned Al Shabaab's attacks in Kampala Sunday that killed 76 World Cup revelers, including one American, could foreshadow a U.S. terror plot, they said.

"There is a concern Al Shabaab might try to carry out similar types of attacks in other venues," a top U.S. official told reporters.

Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said he dispatched a sergeant and three officers to join about 60 other Joint Terrorism Task Force investigators in Uganda. A detective who was already based in South Africa for the World Cup is also on his way, Kelly said.

Shabaab goons - including some Somali-Americans and Al Qaeda operatives who moved to Somalia to flee a CIA drone blitz in Pakistan - have long been targeted by U.S. Special Operations Forces.

"I'm worried about any organization - particularly one associated with Al Qaeda and has Al Qaeda sprinkled within it - [and] their determination, as well as potential capability, to carry out an attack outside of the region," the senior administration official said.

Shabaab's primary focus has been challenging the weak, U.S.-backed transitional government in Mogadishu, the Somali capital.

wcruz@nydailynews.com

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politic ... otion.html


Is anyone watching our borders to prevent this attack?

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Tom Clancy's novel "Teeth Of The Tiger" detailed this exact situation almost ten years ago.

Originally Posted by Texan123

I admire this woman's courage. "OUR" government does not want us to know that terrorist groups are crossing the Border.

Are Americans so stupid to believe that only hard working poor Mexicans looking for work know how wide open our Borders are? We have people plotting to kill us on our own land and the Feds refuse to protect us. What is this country going to be like in 10 years if we do not secure the border? Mexico?

THIS IS NOTHING NEW, I'VE HEARD ABOUT THIS HAPPENING A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO AND IT A SHAME THAT THE GOVERNMENT KNOWS ALL ABOUT TERROIST GROUPS CROSSING THAT BORDER AND THAT STILL ISN'T ENOUGH TO MAKE THEM SECURE IT. I'M SORRY TO SAY THIS, BUT MAYBE IF ONE OF THEIR FAMILY MEMBERS MEET THEIR DEMISE AT THE HANDS OF THESE PEOPLE THEY MIGHT TAKE THIS ISSUE SERIOUS. THEY MUST THINK WE ARE ALL AS DUMB AS THEY ARE

did you know that just over the weekend 40 people were killed in Juarez, Mexico.. that makes over 27,000 people killed because of the drug cartel in less than 5 years in Mexico. that is more killed than in Iraq.
why on earth would OUR elected officials not secure OUR borders with this high of a death count??
did you know that bullets are hitting the city hall building in El Paso, Texas?
Mexico is a violent 3rd world country. demand they secure the border...

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There should be a story in the database somewhere about the Mexican-Lebanese who was caught smuggling these people first into mexico, then into the US... i seem to recall his prison term was 60 years