Terrorists Have Been Arrested at Texas Border
Posted by StormWarning on 15 Sep 2007 at 11:13 am | Tagged as: Current Affairs, Domestic Terrorism, International Issues, National Security, Opinions
Texas Director of Homeland Security, Steve McCraw revealed Wednesday that 6 yrs. after Sept. 11th, people have connected to Hezbollah, Hamas and al Qaeda have been arrested at the Texas border. What will it take to strengthen our border security? Maybe a Texan in the White House cares about border security? Wait! GWB is a Texan…does he care?
Michael Cutler on Counterterrorism Blog alerted me to this when I finally got to read his post from yesterday afternoon:
I want you to take a moment to let the significance of all of this sink in. Our nation is at war with terrorists who have already killed thousands of innocent victims within our nation’s borders. The commonly quoted number of victims is approximately 3,000. In point of fact I fear that the ultimate toll will actually be a multiple of that number when you factor in all of the people who are dying of lung diseases and other ailments associated with the various highly toxic pollutants that were released when the buildings at the World Trade Center complex collapsed. And now we see how the open borders of the United States facilitate the entry of terrorists, at a time when "We the People" are being inconvenienced, and our freedoms and expectations of privacy are being significantly reduced.
What will it take for our government, that’s the federal government led the by amnesty-prone GWB administration to get serious about border security? In a speech delivered on Wednesday, September 12, 2007 to the North Texas Crime Commission, Steve McCraw, the state Director of Homeland Security for Texas revealed that three years ago a South African woman named Farida Goolam Mahomed Ahmed was one of several terrorist suspects arrested crossing the Mexican border near McAllen Texas. She had ties to a Pakistani terrorist group that smuggled foreign nationals across the border and was deported.
U.S. Rep. Solomon Ortiz, D-Corpus Christi, who first announced that Ahmed’s name appeared on a federal terrorism watch list in 2004, balked Thursday after hearing of McCraw’s remarks.
“The Bush administration has not really leveled with the people,” he said.
“But she’s been gone for how long, and now all of a sudden she’s a terrorist? I was confident in my information all along.”
This comes on the heals of a federal agency’s revelation that Islamic extremists
and Mexican drug cartels have joined forces to smuggle weapons and
terrorists into the country. The linkage of narco-terrorism and jihadist terrorism is not a new revelation (at least not to me or some of my "associates"). But what the heck are we doing? See this: Official says terrorists have been arrested on border.
There are two points from this article:
(1) U.S. officials and illegal immigrant advocates have vehemently denied a
terrorist threat from the southern border, insisting that those who
cross are merely desperate, humble and hard-working people seeking the
American dream and willing to do jobs most U.S. citizens won’t even
consider.
(2) Early last month a Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) report laid out how Islamic terrorists and violent Mexican drug gangs have teamed up to successfully penetrate the U.S. as well as finance terror networks in the Middle East.
The alarming report said that the Mexican cartels and terrorists have taken advantage of a porous border and lack of intelligence sharing among key U.S. government agencies. It concluded that any future September 11th type of event in the country may be facilitated by drug traffickers operating on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border.
Can’t really believe that I’m doing this, but take a look at Hot Air, Myths about Myths on Terrorism. This post refers to the real hot air found in a Washington Post article written by Professor Allen B. Krueger of Princeton University in which he tried to debunk the "chestnut" that terrorists are using (or could use) the Mexican border to enter the U.S.
This is also related to the illegal transit of Aamr Bahnan Boles previously written about here on this blog, the last of the series being, Breaching America: Iraqi Chaldean Christian Granted Asylum. Additionally, this is connected to Iraqis captured en route to U.S. brought to my attention by SANE, and Real Clear Politics (where this post is cross-posted).
More articles about this subject here.
Current Affairs, Domestic Terrorism, International Issues, National Security, Opinions
Bush is a big disappointment when it comes to securing our borders. I’m very disappointed in him, but as you say, it’s big business first with him.
What really is the federal government’s responsibility?
We’ve talked before about the role of government, personal responsibility, and the nanny state. Karl at Learning Straight Up has a nice article, “The role of Government is to protect.” I agree with him completely. Beyond securing our borders and
Had no idea. Excellent article. Bush must go.
Among the many issues that GWB abandoned his based on, was immigration.
And Debbie, if you had commented that Bush was more interested in BIG BUSINESS than securing our borders back in 2000 or even 2004, many die-hard Republicans (read that “neos”) might have called you a “LIBRUL” with all of the venom that some people still to this day use with me because I think, instead of toeing some imaginary line.
Moderate Liberal…please come back whenever you can.
Bush is a traitor.
Great post. Let’s hope the next president supports real border security.
SoftwareFreedom, I suppose that you have a right to your opinion, but calling GWB a traitor without any supporting argument isn’t what this blog is about.
Gregdn, I don’t know what you think is “real” border security. But I’m pretty much on record on this blog (and in real life) about what I think is real border security.
Its starts with no amnesty, deportation and arrest, closed borders until we can accomplish the first tow points (and yes, I realize how unrealistic that would be), fraud proof ID documents (no one can prove to me that what is in place now accomplishes that).