http://www.usbc.org/info/2004/nov/terrorists.htm
Border Patrol agent confirms illegal entry of terrorists through border with Mexico November 9, 2004 Though local government officials and immigration advocates have questioned the validity of an August television report warning of terrorists entering the U.S. through the Mexican border, a Border Patrol agent has confirmed the report, stating it "was 100% accurate. It showed what's happening on the border on a daily basis. It was completely accurate,' The Border Patrol agent related his concerns about homeland security along the Arizona/Mexico border, He said that hundreds of illegal entrants sneak into Arizona from Mexico every day, and that items left behind, such as a Muslim prayer rug and a diary written in Arabic have led some to believe not all crossers are from Central and South America. The agent says illegals from terrorist-related countries have crossed the border. He describing one incident with a crosser apprehended near Naco, Arizona. 'So they took him back to the Naco station for further investigating there, and when they entered his fingerprints into the AFIS database, which is maintained by the FBI, several minutes later they received a phone call saying, they need to separate that gentleman right away. He was later determined to be from Pakistan. And he had affiliations with a terrorist group. It wasn't al-Qaida, but it was another terrorist group and this gentleman was wanted in France for trafficking in heroin.' In another incident.just a few months ago: 'We received intelligence that seven males of Middle-Eastern descent had entered the United States illegally, and they were here to carry out a terrorist attack on this country. I'd never seen the agency go to the level that we did as far as treating it with such urgency.' .'and when we got that information we immediately sent agents to patrol the highways. We had never done anything like that before. And like I said before, within a week, there I am, watching the nightly news, and the terror threat was raised, and they actually showed pictures of these seven men who had reportedly entered the country. And that's when it kinda really hit me for the first time that it's really happening.' The agent said he's been told that other terrorists are, perhaps, lying in wait south of the border. 'We know it's happening. We've seen it. We've actually received hard intelligence that they're there in Mexico. It's just a matter of trying to keep them from coming north.' This agent says, if terrorists want to cross, it's become too easy for them because of a severe lack of manpower in the Border Patrol. 'And there's just complete areas of fence that are missing, roads that lead north, well-traveled. I mean, you can tell the tire sign. A vehicle was there within the last day or two. Where they're going, who knows. And the worst part is what are they carrying. I would like to think it's just marijuana, because we can deal with that, but what if it's not?' He says resources are desperately lacking and are keeping agents from adequately protecting our border with Mexico: 'Over 50% of our vehicles at that station are out of service, or deferred for maintenance. If our cameras worked, which I would say well over 50% of them do not work at night, the infrared lenses are not functioning.' Even before new agents are deployed, he says, they're not prepared to fight illegal entry into this country.The agent says there's enormous pressure to rush people through checkpoints, and he says agents can't take adequate time to check out suspicious individuals because there are too many of them and too few agents. He says the Border Patrol is at the mercy of bureaucrats in Washington who either don't realize the extent of the terrorist threat or who choose to deny it. 'Before September 11, I tell people 'yeah, you can make arguments for anything you wanted 'cause we were relatively safe, or we thought we were. After September 11, everything changed, and to continue to do business as if September 11 never happened, which is what we do in our agency, I don't think that's acceptable and I think people need to know what's really happening." ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. Get it for free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/L5YrjA/eSIIAA/yQLSAA/TySplB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. 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