Terror Calls Mexico

IBD ^ | August 31, 2007

[Kaslin]

War On Terror: Mexico may think its differences with the U.S. and status as a nonaligned country somehow shield it from the global war on terror....

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Nearly 11,000 people were evacuated Thursday from Torre Mayor, Mexico City's tallest, ritziest tower, after a terrorist called in a car bomb. The device, which Mexican investigators called "artesanal," was easily dismantled. But the unprecedented evacuation echoed the disruptions Manhattan has seen as an al-Qaida target since 1993.

An obscure group called EPR claimed credit the next day, but it doesn't seem to be linked with global terrorist networks.There's reason to worry, however, that it will be.

EPR's strategy resembles al-Qaida's in that the target wasn't some quaint adobe, but rather Mexico's starkest symbol of global capitalism, its equivalent of New York's World Trade Center.

[kinoxi]

First response should be seal off the border. ...(echo)?

[cripplecreek]

What exactly is EPR all about? I get the impression they aren’t followers of mohamhead.

[SuziQ]

Interesting that al Qaeda is threatening Western energy suppliers. I wonder how Brother Hugo would react to a terrorist strike on any Venezuelan oil facilities?

[SoCalPol]

This is today 20 miles south of me at the San Diego - Mexico border where huge amounts of Mexicans were demonstrating. This is per regular. We need to close the border NOW

[IBD editorial writer]

Brother Hugo thinks it would be 'illogical' for alqaida to strike at him, given their similar philosophies. But he's being naive. As far as alqaida is concerned, Hugo sells oil to America and that's enough motive for alqaida to strike Venezuelan installations. Alqaida doesn't care what Hugo says. They look at what Chavez does and burn with Islamofascist rage. There could be all kind of trouble coming from this.

I wrote this about it awhile back.

[SuziQ]

"For Mexico and Canada, an al-Qaida attack could be a disaster; for Venezuela, it could topple the government."

That's why Brother Hugo would be sure that, if an attack came, it would be the Americans trying to throw him out of office. He would never believe it was Islamic terrorists, because he probably considers them allies in his distrust of America.

As they say, there is no honor among thieves, so I'm sure al Queda would have no qualms at all about disrupting Venezuela's oil supply. They look at Hugo and his people in the same way they look at America. They are not Muslim, therefore, they are infidels, and if they are supplying oil to the 'Great Satan', they are just as bad as America.