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Why Borders Matter
Investor's Business Daily ^ | 8/9/06 | Editorial

Posted on 08/09/2006 9:49:44 PM PDT by NormsRevenge

Homeland Security: The war in Lebanon is an object lesson in border protection. Hezbollah secretly beefed up its forces there as Israel lowered its northern guard. Then Hezbollah attacked. We should take note.

Lest Americans think this is "Israel's war," it's worth repeating that it was Hezbollah that bombed the U.S. Embassy and Marine barracks in Lebanon, killing some 250 Americans. Hezbollah also kidnapped Americans Terry Anderson and Beirut CIA Station Chief William Buckley. Buckley died in captivity with nine others. Some of the masterminds are still at large.

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So now we have a Shiite enemy living among us, and it, too, has alarmingly widespread support. Terror experts say Hezbollah hot spots include Philadelphia, New York, Washington and Detroit — where the FBI is busy monitoring rallies for Hezbollah. Demonstrators have held portraits of the terror group's leader, Hassan Nasrallah, chanting his name along with Hezbollah.

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Sensitivity toward Muslims is so raw that Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff this week felt compelled to express disappointment that the FBI put out an alert for 11 Egyptian students who failed to show up at Montana State University. They entered the country on visas, then vanished. Chertoff said not to worry, just a bunch of kids cutting class. No threat here.

Three were arrested Wednesday, but how can Chertoff be so sure the 11 weren't deployed to videotape skyscrapers or train for jihad?

With Hezbollah trying to infiltrate America, and teams of suspicious young men entering the U.S. under false pretenses, it's time to put more teeth in the National Security Entry-Exit Registration System that requires young men from the Middle East who arrived after 9-11 to check in with immigration officials during their stays — not kill the program, as some in Washington have proposed.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Government; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: aliens; borders; bushbash; chertoff; hezbollah; homelandsecurity; matter

1 posted on 08/09/2006 9:49:45 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
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2 posted on 08/09/2006 9:53:38 PM PDT by bitt ("And an angel still rides in the whirlwind and directs this storm.")
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Ping!


3 posted on 08/09/2006 9:56:18 PM PDT by HiJinx (Have you hugged a soldier today? Try it, you'll like it!)
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4 posted on 08/09/2006 10:00:44 PM PDT by potlatch (Does a clean house indicate that there is a broken computer in it?)
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To: NormsRevenge

"Borders are scratched across the hearts of men, by strangers with a calm, judicial pen, and when the borders bleed we watch with dread the lines of ink along the map turn red”


5 posted on 08/09/2006 10:01:22 PM PDT by gondramB (We will have peace, when you and all your works have perished and the works of your dark master)
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To: bitt

Let's keep these 11 muzlims and deport Chertoff...


6 posted on 08/09/2006 10:01:45 PM PDT by Iscool
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7 posted on 08/09/2006 10:21:50 PM PDT by Ladycalif
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8 posted on 08/09/2006 11:24:14 PM PDT by devolve (fx 9125_AMERICANS_KILLED_2003_BY_ILLEGALS MEX_ILLEGAL_GOT_911_TERRORISTS_ID NO_NUEVO_TEJAS)
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To: devolve

Bttt!


9 posted on 08/09/2006 11:27:52 PM PDT by TheLion
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To: NormsRevenge

BUMP


10 posted on 08/10/2006 5:09:03 AM PDT by Dante3
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To: NormsRevenge

BUMP


11 posted on 08/10/2006 5:11:15 AM PDT by Dante3
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To: NormsRevenge; HiJinx

"Lest Americans think this is "Israel's war," it's worth repeating that it was Hezbollah that bombed the U.S. Embassy and Marine barracks in Lebanon, killing some 250 Americans. Hezbollah also kidnapped Americans Terry Anderson and Beirut CIA Station Chief William Buckley. Buckley died in captivity with nine others. Some of the masterminds are still at large"

Never in the network news, is it?


12 posted on 08/10/2006 6:05:15 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (Taglines for sale or rent. Good "one liners", 50 cents.)
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To: HiJinx

Protect our borders and coastlines from all foreign invaders!


13 posted on 08/10/2006 8:52:19 AM PDT by blackie (Be Well~Be Armed~Be Safe~Molon Labe!)
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To: NormsRevenge

Where are those Egyptians?


14 posted on 08/10/2006 8:52:59 AM PDT by Republicus2001
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