Posted on 04/07/2008 9:39:58 AM PDT by SwinneySwitch
Detonating a nuclear weapon in or over Juarez, Mexico is the same thing as detonating one in El Paso, Texas: The difference is it may be a little easier to effect in Juarez. From the heart of downtown El Paso to downtown Juarez is just a very short distance. Or a bomb on the international bridge dividing the two countries empties into Avenida Juárez in downtown Juarez, on the south and El Paso downtown to the north could do the job and would be easy for any terrorist to pull off. Nowhere else on the planet are two major cities of two different nations so closely tied together and vulnerable — or so easy to visit from either side day or night.
One nuclear weapon placed in Juarez Mexico could kill up-wards of two million people almost half of them Americans living in both El Paso and Juarez.
Just a historical reminder: The atomic bomb named "Little Boy" was dropped on Hiroshima by the Enola Gay, a Boeing B-29 bomber, at 8:15 in the morning of August 6, 1945 - 62 years ago.
Of growing concern to some U.S. officials is the way the terrorists south of the border are taking advantage of the lack of sophistication on the Mexicans part for their inability and unwillingness to protect their own borders from terrorist infiltration and are using the low Mexican immigration standards and the U.S. open border to slip into Mexico or the U.S. with a nuclear weapon or dirty bomb.
Former CIA Director R. James Woolsey told NewsMax in an exclusive interview that terrorists could strike the American homeland — possibly with a weapon of mass destruction.
A terrorist strike with a nuclear, dirty bomb or with biological weapons was "a real possibility." Woolsey's comments echo those of FBI Director Robert Mueller, who told NewsMax that al-Qaeda's paramount goal is clear: to detonate a nuclear device that would kill hundreds of thousands of Americans.
Tens of millions of radical Muslims, mostly of Arabic descent, live in Latin America.
International law-enforcement authorities combating terrorism have growing concerns about a major influx into Mexico of Arabic-speaking visitors carrying Cuban, Russian, Greece, Holland and other European passports.
Many of the passport holders could not even speak the language of their so-called mother land, according to a secret report given to the Mexican legislators.
Intelligence sources have been warning us that they have noticed a tendency among Islamic terrorists to operate in Mexico. Mexico with a territory slightly bigger than Alaska and with geographic extremes that have proven perfect for hiding bombs, weapons, illegal aliens, and drugs is currently what’s going on south of our border.
According to the "INM" (Mex. Immigr.) Just last week six adult male Iraqis were arrested in Tapachula, state of Chiapas, while attempting to reach the Distrito Federal of Mexico and to proceed to the United States from that point. In their preliminary declaration, the six said they entered through Central America, reached Guatemala and that there they purchased the false passports from Greece and Holland which they initially presented to Mexican officials when arrested. They also claimed they crossed the Suchiate River (bordering Mexico and Guatemala) on a raft.
The names on the phony passports were Hristov Eroslavov Dobromir, Mirian Sitkinas, Carlos Harden, Stevan Bergian, Vasileios Venetis and Vasilev Martinov Georgi.
Another two Iraqis with false Bulgarian passports were detected and detained at the airport in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon. Now, Mexican officials are reportedly investigating "a network that could be made up of Mexicans operating in Greece who is selling false Bulgarian passports for ten thousand dollars to European and Middle Eastern citizens." Last year 28 Illegalsfrom Iraq were detected at the airport in Monterrey alone (El Porvenir said there were 23, seventeen of them in a single event) The latest two, "Wisam Gorgies", 34 yr. old male, and "Rana Nazar Peyoz", 26 yr. old female, flew from Madrid and said they obtained the false passports in Greece; their aim was to reach the United States.
The Mexican government is very concerned with the up-tick of known Mexican communist party members who are being converted to Islam this arises from recent immigrants who import new radical jihadi philosophies into their ranks. These people are also active in Islamic missionary work converting the poor and destitute with promises of a better life under Islam.
These terrorists are organized in active cells around the country of Mexico according to a Mexican General who wants to remain nameless. I have seen documents describing part of the drug-smuggling cartels cooperation with terrorists using their existing routes though Mexico to the states. Islamic terrorists are paying millions to the Mexicans to transport their drugs from Afghanistan, as well as weapons and people. These elaborate well defined drug routes run through a web of border crossings pointing also to the complex cooperation between various "smuggling cartels and the terrorists." These belong to jihadi organizations such as al-Qaeda, joining forces with local drug lords, developing and greasing their smuggling skids with money all the way to Mexico aiming ultimately to hit the U.S.
With the nature of lawlessness, graft, poverty and disorder in Mexico, enables operatives of such terrorist groups as al-Qaeda, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad and Hamas to operate with impunity. These organizations have turned Mexico into a logistical attack base.
The growing danger is that the militant Islam terrorists have penetrated Mexico. Some of them have ties to smugglers operating in American states bordering Mexico, especially those with connections in Arizona, New Mexico, Texas and California.
Experienced anti-terror experts report the Mexican border is the Achilles heel of the Department of Homeland Security.
Islam is on the move in Mexico and throughout Latin America, making dramatic gains in converting the native population, increasing immigration, establishing businesses and charities and attracting attention from U.S. government officials who have asked their neighbors to the south to keep an eye on foreign Muslim groups.
Al-Qaeda and other allied organizations are expanding operations throughout Mexico, establishing both legitimate and criminal enterprises to help fund future attack operations.
According to U.S. Ambassador to Venezuela Charles Shapiro, almost every extremist terror group is now represented in Latin America.
Pentagon officials have confirmed human smuggling rings in Latin America are attempting to sneak al-Qaeda operatives into the U.S.
Anti-terrorism experts say extremist cells tied to Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad and al-Qaeda network are operating in Argentina, Ecuador, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Paraguay and Uruguay.
FBI Director Robert Mueller told a congressional panel that illegal aliens from countries with ties to al-Qaeda have crossed into the U.S. from Mexico using false identities. Mueller said some of the aliens are people with Middle Eastern names who have adopted Hispanic last names before coming into the U.S.
"We are concerned, Homeland Security is concerned about special interest aliens entering the United States," Mueller said. The U.S. Bush administration officials have previously said al-Qaeda could try to infiltrate the United States through the Mexican border.
Al-Qaeda has become deeply involved in cocaine and heroine trafficking, arms and uranium smuggling, counterfeiting CDs and DVDs and money-laundering activities.
Cash laden Non-Mexicans often are more difficult to intercept because they typically pay high-end smugglers a large sum of money to efficiently assist them in setting up in Mexico or help them across the border, rather than traverse it on their own.
According to the WorldNetDaily many of America’s enemies have chosen Mexico as a target to locate and undermine security in the Americas and weaken America politically and strategically. America’s various adversaries have chosen Mexico as their infiltration route. And American politicians are opening the doors wide to our enemies with NAFTA and The Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP) programs.
Robert Grenier, who was head of the CIA's counter-terrorism center, told a press conference in Mexico that the Muslim terrorist organizations see the illegal immigration and drug trafficking networks in the Latin American nations as the most effective way to move people and equipment into the US. Grenier said that the Bush Administration fears both Hamas and Hizballah may already have sleeper cells operating in Mexico. Hamas and Hizballah have both threatened in the past to extend their war against Israel to include the United States.
Source: U.S. Government, Mexican Government, Laguna Journal, WorldNetDaily NewsMax. Photo's U.S. Government
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LOL!
There are many sentences in the article like this. I wonder if the author is embarrassed? I wonder if he even knows?
“This sentence alone may have killed more English teachers than a nuclear bomb would.”
Public school English teachers can handle it.
Sounds like the poster arguement for linking the U.S. up to Mexico for defense purposes.
No sale.
Hire a team of mexican federales to transport it across the border for a few grand and you're golden.
Hold it right there. You can't lump the Russians into this.
The Russians are not stupid, and giving nukes to towelheads would be. Even the Russian Mob is smarter than that. Allegedly, They ripped off Osama by selling them bogus uranium, because they knew that he was trouble.
Like the US, they have been working to stop this sort of thing. They hand over a nuke to AQ, and it goes to their Azeri buddies, and winds up inside a lorry in Moscow with a lit fuse. Even Putin could see that coming.
All of you guys and gals read this book...the author wrote about this type of event taking place three years ago,
http://www.amazon.com/Terrorists-Crossing-Rich-Carroll/dp/1413779115
Which would bring the rest of 'em over to 'our side'. And they don't play around.
Nah - here’s the problem. If they hit NY with a nuke - there isn’t anyone to cover the news...
Damage would still be to the cities, now also more so the ocean and up and down the coast for some distance.
We'd rather NOT have one at all of course, but terrorist can get the oil money to buy one if they have the will to do so.
The Russians have been selling various weapons on the market already, so why wouldn’t they sell one to terrorist if they believed it would NOT blow up on them and would damage us? Especially if it is for millions and it is an ex KGB person selling one for their retirement?
We go down a peg, they figure to go up and in a way the terrorist would be helping a cause that could be seen as mutually beneficial.
As far as allowing Iran to make stuff, the way Iranian stuff has showed up in Israel, I think Iran will find itself blown up over this issue.
Around the world, many places aren't as secure with the nukes, so no one is safe.
An atomic nuke off the coast of CA is going to make a giant cloud of radioactive steam and fallout saltwater rain that is going to cover a good bit of LA.
The wave action is going to be negligible for the rest of the coast.
Something to consider, sand rats with a nuke are not going to have the top of the line thermonuclear warheads with yields in the hudreds of kiltons or megaton ranges. They will be closer to hiroshima bombs, and those just do not have the power that you are talking about.
Do you think that goes for a nuke they would buy from places like Russia?
Nah. This is silly. Radioactive water?
Because we can footprint their nukes based on tace elements found in the fallout. The Soviets and the Russians know that if we trace one back to them we'd nuke THEM.
No, they got that bomb elsewhere, we have all our secured and the trace elements were copied to frame us for this.
We are really good guys, so do you Americans want some free tanning lotion to fight against the nuclear fallout?
Nah. This is silly. Radioactive water?
Correction: Water impregnated with radioactive fallout particles. Iodine-131 and Strontium-90 laced water is a BAD BAD thing.
Remember that a large part of the ship is nuke detonates inside of will be drawn up through the nuclear blast as fine particles.
You can't copy the trace elements. They are like fingerprints for nuclear reactors.
Probably not. There will be steam, and not much of that. Otherwise the water blast produces a column of water that rains back almost immediately. The ship, mostly iron, will not become Strontium 90 or Iodine 131. The ship will mostly be broken, fragmented, but not vaporized.
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