Three arrested in arms plot to kill Americans

Washington Times ^ | 6/9/07 | By Jerry Seper

[JohnHuang2]

A suspected international arms dealer was arrested yesterday in Spain and charged with conspiracy to sell millions of dollars in weapons to a State Department-designated foreign terrorist organization in Colombia to kill Americans.

U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Administrator Karen P. Tandy said Syrian national Monzer Al Kassar, 61, of Marbella, Spain, along with suspects Tareq Mousa Al Ghazi, 60, of Lebanon, and Luis Felipe Moreno Godoy, 58, also of Marbella, were arrested as they prepared to finalize a multimillion-dollar deal with the Marxist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, to pay for the weapons.

Mr. Kassar was arrested on the U.S. charges by Spanish authorities in Madrid; simultaneously Mr. Ghazi and Mr. Moreno Godoy were arrested in Romania.

"Monzer Al Kassar commands a global munitions empire, arming and funding insurgents and terrorists across the globe, particularly those who wish to harm Americans," Mrs. Tandy said. "He operates in the shadows, the silent partner behind the business of death and terror."

According to a federal grand jury Indictment unsealed in New York, since the early 1970s, Mr. Kassar, an international weapons trafficker, has been a ready source of weapons and military equipment for armed factions engaged in violent conflicts around the world.

[Tall_Texan]

I guess we know what the FARC they were up to...

[anymouse]

Hugo is deeply saddened.

[stevie_d_64]

And of course those weapons would be coming into the U.S. via some legitimate means of transport, thought proper customs and bonded services???

By hard-working people that will do jobs that we Americans won’t do...

Right???

oops...Almost forgot...

/BIG TIME SARCASM

Wouldn’t it be grand, to just allow one shipment to get to the point that it would be coming over the porous border...Set up a live “breaking news” feed...

They get right up to the border and whamo!!! The tanks, say from Fort Hood have some live fire practice???

I would think that would make for some great TV for once...We could call it “Reality Ambush”!

[WorkerbeeCitizen]

When do we get to start killing back? I’m tired of this “turn the other cheek” crap - I wanna shoot back once in a while.

[Cobra64]

"...foreign terrorist organization in Colombia to kill Americans.

Lemme see... Colombia is South of the United States. We have open borders. People travel North from South and Central America.

Hey W, do you see a terrorist opportunity here?

[Cobra64]

The tanks, say from Fort Hood have some live fire practice???

no, No, NO! President Bush welcomes illegal immigrants; even if they are terrorists. We can only fight the war on terror on foreign soil.

Those 19 highjackers on 9-11 just forgot to gettheir visas renewed. If they didn't blow themselves up, we'd just fine them $2,000, give them a social security card, and a trip to Disney World..

[stevie_d_64]

Well it was wishful thinking at 4am in the morning...

I could certainly get a shot off like that easy...Go get a cup of coffee, come back and get a few more off too clean up...Yawn and go take a nap...

You know...A low-stress, highly satisfying engagement...

;-)

[Son House]

millions of dollars in weapons to a State Department-designated foreign terrorist organization in Colombia to kill Americans.

Guest workers will have the ‘right’ to bare arms too, it’s in the bill.

[sono]

Misdirection, Stanley, Misdirection

[USMCPOP]

Meanwhile, back at home, we have legislators still trying to ban our semi-automatic firearms. (H.R. 1022)

[do the dhue]

All I can say is FARC U terrorist scum.

[do the dhue]

Guest workers will have the ‘right’ to bare arms too, it’s in the bill.

I really don't like that. Do you know if they would have the right to vote too?

[browardchad]

Do you know if they would have the right to vote too?

Right to vote? No.

Do they/will they vote? Of course.

[do the dhue]

Do they/will they vote? Of course.

And I suppose they will vote Demorat and bring the crap they are running from to the US too?

[Idaho Whacko]

I wonder if the MSM can see the muslim/communist connection here? All this pulls Venezuela into the problem, they support FARC.

[Mark17]

When do we get to start killing back? I’m tired of this “turn the other cheek” crap - I wanna shoot back once in a while.

I agree with you, but unfortunately, that would be non PC. I wonder if even a nuke going off on American soil will be enough for the country to shake off PC? It does not appear to me that 9/11 did, or at least not for very long.

[Son House]

I was sarcastic about the right to bare arms, though,
as they’re allowed to become legal, they will expect everything else is legal,
and we have alot of politicians willing to make illegal legal.

[WorkerbeeCitizen]

Yeah, I know. But sometimes ya just gotta say it though :)

[AuntB]

Hey W, do you see a terrorist opportunity here?

Rumsfeld did. Admiral Loy did. Just about everybody else did. Guess W wasn't listenin'.

(2005) http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0411/16/ldt.01.html DOBBS: Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is warning of the threat of terrorists entering this country through the same routes as those used by illegal aliens. Secretary Rumsfeld, traveling in South America, warned that enemies look for weaknesses and take advantage of them.

DONALD RUMSFELD, SECRETARY OF DEFENSE: The risk is that some of these human-smuggling routes into our country from this hemisphere could be used just as easily for terrorists.

DOBBS: And three million illegal aliens are estimated to be entering this country this year.

Secretary Rumsfeld also said the United States has to be, as he put it, smarter and quicker in securing our borders. The federal government’s failure to secure those borders is leading individual states to take action. Arizona’s Proposition 200, which limits state benefits for illegals, passed overwhelmingly two weeks ago. Now at least half a dozen other states are considering similar measures.

Consider the following 5 statements by Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson given at a Senate Floor Speech 16 March 2005 to President George.W. Bush (page S 2828).

1. “In Detroit, Mahmoud Youssef Kourani was indicted in the Eastern District of Michigan on one count of conspiracy to provide material support to Hezbollah. Kourani was already in custody for entering the country illegally through Mexico and was involved in fund raising activities on behalf of Hezbollah.”

2. “...the capture of terrorist suspect Jose Padilla. The Justice Department says Padilla and an accomplice planned to enter the United States through Mexico to blow up apartment buildings in major cities such as New York.”

3. “Or the case of suspected al-Qaida sleeper agent Mohammed Junaid Babar, who told investigators of a scheme to smuggle terrorists across the Mexican border. He is tied to a terror plot to carry out bombings and assassinations in London.”

4. “Intelligence reports suggesting that 25 Chechen terrorism suspects have illegally entered the United States from Mexico have refocused attention on a porous border from which many believe the next major attack on Americans could come.”

5. “Also last July, an Egyptian man United States authorities described as one of their most wanted smugglers of humans was arrested on charges of operating a ring that illegally brought people from Egypt and other Middle Eastern countries to the United States. The indictment says Abdallah and his associates would direct people seeking to reach the United States to travel to one of several Latin American countries, and from there to Guatemala. They would then be transported to America through Mexico in return for payments of thousands of dollars in smuggling fees.”

It is blatantly obvious even to the most casual reader that Islamic terrorists have been, and continue to, cross the U.S./Mexico border into America.

http://www.rlsinternationalsecurity.com/sites/southernborder.html

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Al-Qaida Operative Nabbed Near Mexican Border An al-Qaida operative who was on the FBI’s terrorist watch list was recently captured near the Mexican border, housed in a Texas jail and turned over to ... www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/11/20/151654.shtml

Chechen terrorists probed - The Washington Times: Nation/Politics ... ... terrorists illegally entered the United States from Mexico in July. ... Middle Eastern men were recently caught trying to cross the border from Mexico. ... washingtontimes.com/national/20041013-121643-5028r.htm

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cbs11tv.com - Texas Border Vulnerable To Terrorists Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, arrests of Special Interest Aliens have increased forty-one percent along the Texas/Mexico border and ... cbs11tv.com/topstories/local_story_297214049.html

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FIRE Coalition U.S.-Mexican Border as a Terror Risk: Recent intelligence gives the most evidence yet of terrorist plans. Lawmakers push for tighter security. ... www.firecoalition.com/bordersecterr.shtml