FBI stopped Hezbollah smugglers (US Mexico Border)

JTA ^ | 3/30/2006 | JTA

[bordergal]

The FBI broke up a ring that tried to smuggle Hezbollah operatives into the United States. In testimony Tuesday to Congress on the FBI’s budget request, director Robert Mueller said most recent reports on terrorist smuggling do not pan out.

However, he identified one that did: “This was an occasion in which Hezbollah operatives were assisting others with some association with Hezbollah in coming to the United States,” Mueller said. “That was an organization that we dismantled and identified those persons who had been smuggled in. And they have been addressed as well.”

Mueller did not elaborate further, except to say that the ring had attempted to smuggle the operatives into the United States from Mexico

[cripplecreek]

The terrorists only need to succeed once.

[SittinYonder]

Making sure you see this ping

[Xenophobic Alien]

I wonder how many they don't catch.

[SlowBoat407]

Blowing up the places Americans won't.

[King Prout]

border security = homeland security ping

[Uncle Miltie]

"the ring had attempted to smuggle the operatives into the United States from Mexico"

Impossible. The Mexican border is not a strategic threat. We've been told by "them." So sit down, shut up, and take it.

(Tick, tick, tick, tick,.....waiting for the bomb to go off someday)

[skip_intro]

I wonder why they tried to get in through the southern border?

Who do they think they are, Mexicans?

[eyespysomething]

Whadda ya know. Shocked I tell you!

[Michael.SF.]

that is in poor taste.

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

http://historysend.blogspot.com/2004/05/terror-triangle.html

[Southack]

So was the FBI watching the border? Or was the FBI tracking these Hezbollah agents all of the way from Lebanon to Mexico?

Or did they just get a tip?

Well anyway, it's a good catch and a good job that the FBI caught them upon entry to the U.S. (gotta give credit where it's due).

[Jim_Curtis]

What idiots! Did they think they could march right into our country without being Latino?

[Southack]

"http://historysend.blogspot.com/2004/05/terror-triangle.html"

It's a safe bet that we've been watching FARC and the Shining Path since the 1980's...perhaps even earlier.

[HiJinx]

This may be the ring operating out of Tiajuana with the help of Mexican Immigration officials that we (the US and Mexico) broke up last year.

I seem to remember posting/pinging articles about a Mid-East connection back then.

[HiJinx]

Terrorist Infiltration Ping!

[dhs12345]

To all of you who said that terrorists wouldn't try to enter the US via Mexico....

[Fitzcarraldo]

Maybe it works tit for tat: if terrorists help illegals in, then the illegals will help the terrorists in. After all,
the gringo is the common enemy.

[JustPiper]

Thanks Jinx will post this at TM

[stopem]

Does Specter and his ilk know about this and they still want to pass his legislation when his legislation does NOTHING to protect us.

Like I said we need the National Guard armed on the southern border with orders to shoot to kill anyone sneaking in and who won't stop!!

[planekT]

We have so much to gain if we secure our borders, and everything to lose if we do not secure them.

[Fitzcarraldo]

Just think of all the rebuilding work for illegals if the terrorists blow up Salt Lake City or Boise.

[Icelander]

 

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[bordergal]

Bingo.

There is a nice little antisemitic screed posted at Voz De Aztlan, which is quite sympathetic to their oppressed Muslim brothers.

I sent it to my Congresscritters, for all the good it will do.

[Southack]

"To all of you who said that terrorists wouldn't try to enter the US via Mexico..."

No one is surprised that the terrorists tried to enter the U.S. from Mexico.

The surprise is that we caught them (a good thing, by the way).

Perhaps our border enforcement is better than we've been led to believe.

[HiJinx]

Perhaps our border enforcement is better than we've been led to believe.

I think it's a lot better than many here think it is. I see it every day on the way to work.

I'm just not that sure it's good enough. The BP are still saying they only catch one in three who try to cross illegally.

[backhoe]

... we are already in WWIV, and it has two interlocking elements:

Islam, a Religion of Peace®? ( links, blogs, quips, quotes, aggravating pictures ) is located here- click the Pic, and scroll backwards:

"Thunder on the Border," click the picture:

[SUSSA]

The illegal aliens and the criminals who hire them and the criminals who harbor them are getting out in the street making their desires known. It is way past time those of us who support the rule of law and secure borders did the same.

Join Veterans for Secure Borders, The Minuteman Project, Latino Americans for Immigration Reform, Mothers Against Illegal Aliens, and other groups protesting amnesty for these criminals, and demanding the government protect our borders.

http://www.areckoning.com/

FReepers should be at this rally in strength. Saturday, May 6, in Crawford, TX.

[NAVY84]

I think that this is a case of profiling. There must be immediate congressional hearings into this. The FBI just can't stop anyone with a camel and a turban crossing our borders!

[Southack]

PING: This article/thread deals with the expected results of what we've been discussing regarding Hezbollah's activity in Iraq and attempts to gain entry in to the U.S. as well as potential theories about Zarqawi going to Lebanon to coordinate with Hezbollah...

[texastoo]

Thanks for the ping. This is just as I thought. Middle Easteners have been coming here illegally for years via Mexico. For political reason the government has been denying this. Just as we don't have a clue as to how many illegal Mexicans are here, we don't have a clue as to how many illegal Middle Easteners are here.

[BinaryBoy]

There might be a lot more we don't know about.

[texastoo]

Thanks for the ping. This is just as I thought. Middle Easteners have been coming here illegally for years via Mexico. For political reason the government has been denying this. Just as we don't have a clue as to how many illegal Mexicans are here, we don't have a clue as to how many illegal Middle Easteners are here.

[dhs12345]

Didn't want to spend the time looking through all of my posts, but I remember a debate with a freeper who was convinced that border security wouldn't reduce the chance of a terrorist attack.

[Proud_USA_Republican]

Just what this country needs.

[Marine_Uncle]

"...potential theories about Zarqawi going to Lebanon to coordinate with Hezbollah..."
Somehow I think it is more then a potential theory. Abu fled Iraq to elsewhere. Be it as you had suggested last month Lebanon, the Gaza, elsewhere in the wesetern ME, or perhaps as some have felt, via. Iran to Afghansitan, or even in some sh*thole in Pakistan.
Bottom line is he made it clear the big six would handle things in Iran while he retired out of site. Obviously he is not going to retire. Just coordinate with some tightly knit groups how to enter the US and blow things up.
At least it appears obviouse to me. So I think it is not so much a "potential" but a when they succeed in planning some missions.

[GOP_1900AD]

Oh.... you racist! /sarc

Borders, Language, Culture ...

[SlowBoat407]

Explain to me, then, why else Hizbollah would want to enter this country illegally. It may be in poor taste in your estimation, but I see it as a statement of uncomfortable fact.

[Iscool]

I wonder how many they don't catch.

With a few million muzlims in the country, I'd say there's quite a number they didn't catch...

[Michael.SF.]

It may be in poor taste in your estimation,

You are confused. I was not questioning or commenting on their reasons for coming here, nor was I denying that our southern border has more holes in it then a Clinton alibi. I was simply acknowledging that jokes about Americans being blown up by terrorists is not a very funny topic for off color jokes.

Perhaps you find joking about it to be funny. I don't.

[blackie]

Protect our borders and coastlines from all foreign invaders!

Support our Minutemen Patriots!

Be Ever Vigilant!

[SandRat]

Gee,.... who'da thunki it?! < / sarc

[Wiz]

ping

[Wiz]

ping

[NRA2BFree]

Thanks, HiJinx! I never thought about Hezbollah coming to America. I thought they would stay and concentrate their suicide attacks on Israel. I figured we'd get the rest of the world's terrorists here. I wonder how many are already in the US waiting to launch their attacks.

[Mr. Mojo]

With a few million muzlims in the country, I'd say there's quite a number they didn't catch...

Anyone know the estimated number of illegal alien Muslims in the U.S? I vaguely remember reading that it was around a half million, but I can't find a source.

[SlowBoat407]

I am not confused, nor was I making a joke about Americans being blown up by terrorists. I was making a joke about the fact that illegals and terrorists are coming over the border for similar purposes. It's called parallelism, and it's also called black humor. People who care can actually make wry comments and still care about their fellow citizens. Fer cryin' out loud, don't sit there ready to jump on every comment people make as though you're the only one who gives a damn about this country.

[Michael.SF.]

Get off your high horse.

It was in bad taste, I called you on it and you can't take criticism.

[Rebelbase]

Propaganda to make us feel safe.