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C.H.D. finds 33 more people that
Homeland Defense missed:
National security ?
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Saturday night I’m sitting between
two trails close to ground level after dark. With me is an
independant journalist from France -he just happens to be the
same reporter who went out with Jack Foote and Casey Nethercott
of Ranch Rescue in Texas. He witnessed their encounter and
wanted to see how we work. Also with me is an independant
documentary film producer. He videotaped the following
encounter.
It was windy and hard to hear the group of
fifteen that marched down the ridge and came within feet of
where the three of us were sitting. They passed by us and we
called them in to volunteers waiting further up the trail. We
contacted Border Patrol immediately, they dispatched an
agent to us within ten minutes, he arrived at our
location 25 minutes after the group was first spotted. He was
too late, the group had made the river.
We switched on our handheld floods and
swept the area. The group was found lying on the ground
together trying not to be seen. We approached them, said good
evening and learned they were not citizens of the United
States. They had breached the border undetected.
I told them Border Patrol were on their
way. They sat quietly for a few minutes then the leader, the
coyote, told the group to get up and follow him. They oblidged
and began a rapid walk toward the river. The coyote knew who we
were and decided we could do nothing to stop him.
I followed at a safe distance shining my
light on them so they could see where they were going, all the
while telling them Migra would catch them. I even warned them
that “vigilantes” might find them. I asked them to
stop and save their energy -they would be caught because I will
follow them and tell Border Patrol where they are.
Nothing worked.
They ran. They stopped to rest in the
field. I told them again Border Patrol was close.
I flashed my light to guide the B.P. agent
to the area. They got up and continued again and reached the
river and dissapeared. I can’t go into the river area
because my government won’t allow me to defend myself
with a firearm. I chose to return to the group of
volunteers and reached the road near the trail where we first
encountered the group just as the B.P. agent arrived. I
directed him to where he could find the group. He and two other
agents spent the next hour or so trying to round them up
because the group has total disregard for authority and rule of
law. It’s just like how terrorists work, no regard for
our way of life - and we have little power to stop them.
What do we do now?
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A Mexico cover-up of U.S. terror
threats?
Task-force investigators find U.S.
space center, George Bush International Airport among
targets
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Editor’s note: Joseph Farah’s
G2 Bulletin is an online, subscription intelligence news
service from the creator of WorldNetDaily.com – a
journalist who has been developing sources around the world for
the last 25 years.
© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com
While Washington is focused on
finger-pointing over responsibility for 9-11, some of the 100
members of the Houston Task Force on Terrorism say Mexico is
not fully cooperating on preventing the next jihadist attack on
the U.S., a report by Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin finds.
The weekly online intelligence
newsletter has learned from a source on the task force of fresh
Mexico-based threats to NASA’s Johnson Space Center, the
George Bush Intercontinental Airport and industrial targets
linked to the oil and power industries.
Task-force members say agents from
various state, federal and local agencies are, because of
corruption and bureaucratic red tape in the Mexican government,
forced to sift through thousands of tips connected to possible
terrorist build-ups south of the border without the kind of
guidance and cooperation they would expect from a neighbor and
ally.
One task-force source said the
Mexican security community, especially the Center for
Investigations and National Security, is still mired with
political corruption and that members in President Vicente
Fox’s own administration insist they should be informed
about any high-priority intelligence before it is passed on to
U.S. authorities.
President Fox’s
administration, sources say, is suppressing information that
might reveal the actual size of anti-U.S. terror cells in the
capital, Mexico City, and their connection to militant Muslim
groups around Mexico and in many Latin American hotspots.
Sources say Guadalajara and Tijuana are
two Mexican cities harboring anti-American terror cells.
Nationwide, there are more than 70 anti-terrorism task forces
like the Houston agency. They incorporate thousands of agents.
In Texas there are operational task forces in El Paso, San
Antonio and Dallas.
Some of the information coming from
Mexico indicates serious preparations by terrorists to cross
the border with well-designed missions. Intelligence sources
say the quality of information filtering through the Mexican
government is often compromised by internal struggles within
the Mexican drug cartels or by corrupt customs and police
officials.
A task-force source in El Paso said
the lack of cooperation from Mexico has resulted in few cases
where U.S. authorities were able to intercept infiltration
attempts by Arab nationals. In one case, two years ago, a
number of Iraqis tried to cross the border and were arrested
thanks to a tip from Mexico. But that kind of cooperation is
the exception rather than the rule, the sources say.
One task-force source said it is
only a question of time before the U.S. pays the heavy price of
another major terrorist attack as a result of the breakdown in
cooperation between the two countries.
“It’s not anymore a
question of if, but rather of when and where,” he said.
Last month, President Bush and Fox
pledged to become “partners” who are committed to
“building a safer, more democratic and more prosperous
hemisphere.”
“In this age of
terror,” said Bush, “the security of our borders is
more important than ever, and the cooperation between Mexico
and American border and law enforcement is stronger than
ever.”
Mingling at Bush’s Crawford,
Texas, ranch, both men said that, through a “Border
Partnership Agreement,” their governments were committed
to “improving the infrastructure at ports of entry along
our common border,” while “using technology to
allow law-abiding travelers to cross the border quickly and
easily” as “officials concentrate on stopping
possible threats.”
“Our Mexican and American
officials are working together to arrest dangerous criminals,
including drug smugglers and those who traffic in human beings.
President Fox and I are determined to protect the safety of
American people and the Mexican people,” Bush said.
But U.S. law enforcement sources
actually working with their counterparts in Mexico say they
haven’t seen the kind of cooperation Bush talked about.
Meanwhile, there are growing
concerns about growing terrorist operations throughout Latin
America. With Islamic “charities” under increasing
international pressure and scrutiny to cut ties with
terrorists, al-Qaida and other allied organizations are
expanding operations in Latin America, establishing both
legitimate and criminal enterprises to fund future operations.
Counterterror experts monitoring
the Central American scene are concerned with news that
so-called youth gangs active in Central America are now moving
north into Mexico. The youth gangs, known to be among the most
ruthless street criminals in that part of the world, prey on
prospective illegal immigrants. Some indications from Honduras
and Guatemala suggest that gangs known as Mara-18 and
Salvatrucha are already active in the Mexican state of Chiapas,
stretching their activity to Tijuana close to the U.S. border.
A number of Mara-18 members are
known to have ties with drug dealers, including those
identified with some of the most radical Islamic jihadists.
