Thread: Mexico detains 6 Iraqis in border checks

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Article Published: Wednesday, March 30, 2005
Mexico detains 6 Iraqis in border checks

By Brendan M. Case
The Dallas Morning News

Mexico City - Mexican officials detained six Iraqis at checkpoints near the California border over the past week as the six apparently were preparing to enter the United States, the office of Mexico's attorney general said Tuesday.

There was no evidence that the detained Iraqis had ties to any terrorist groups, Mexican officials said.

There is a significant Iraqi Christian community in Southern California.

Still, the arrests spotlighted fears that terrorists might attempt to enter the United States from Mexico.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice recently raised that concern with U.S. lawmakers and Mexican officials.

Four Iraqis were apprehended at the Mexicali airport on Saturday, said Abraham Sarabia, a spokesman for the attorney general's office in nearby Tijuana.

Mexicali is across the border from Calexico, Calif.

Traveling with the four Iraqis was an American woman whom Sarabia identified as Alya Kiryakous Dawood Sako. The four Iraqis are in the custody of Mexico's National Migration Institute.

Dawood Sako has been returned to the United States.

Two other Iraqis were detained March 23 at a highway checkpoint between San Luis Rio Colorado and Mexicali. They also remain in Mexican custody.

A U.S. official speaking on condition of anonymity said the U.S. government was aware of the arrests in Mexico of only three Iraqi nationals traveling with a U.S. citizen.

The U.S. official said that initial "unofficial" indications were that the Iraqis were simply trying to get into the United States illegally and that there was no connection to terrorism or other suspicious activity.

That's not a big catch, considering the hordes of illegal aliens, that cross over the border everyday.

It may not be a big catch, as you say, Butterbean, but they were Iraquis. They're not going to be honest about their intentions.

Originally Posted by butterbean

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There was no evidence that the detained Iraqis had ties to any terrorist groups, Mexican officials said.

And they know this because..they weren't wearing their "terrorist" tags at the time. Besides, would Mexico state the fact even if they had obvious proof that they were terrorists? Of course not. They have too much to gain from an open border. I'm surprised to see this in the news even, not a good coverup on their part.