Mexican Border - A Border Patrol agent on the scene who
speaks Arabic and Farsi, the native language of Iran, clearly overheard captured border
illegal detainees speaking Arabic through an air vent in the transport vehicle.
Higher-ups in the Border Patrol allegedly ordered these agents involved not to say a thing
to the news media.
Recently, the Wilcox Border Patrol station apprehended another 24 Arabic-speaking
males in the area of Pierce/Sunsites.
Even more worrisome, the agents say, is that the 24 men who were seized were only part of
a larger group. At least half of the group apparently escaped capture and remain on the
loose in the United States. All the clothing worn by the Middle Eastern males was brand
new. Each one in the group looked to have had just been to a barber shop with fresh new
haircuts, all clean cut, with the exact style and cut of mustaches.
Breaking Silence over a Possible Imminent Threat
A sobering and scary development is allegedly taking place along the southwest border of
the United States.
In Arizona, in the area the many refer to as the Naco Strip, our international border with
Mexico has become a primary route of illegal entry by significant numbers of Arab-speaking
males. The porous frontier, harried U.S. government officials say, is beginning to look a
lot like the left lane on a European Autobahn. It doesn"t take a master spy to
conclude that we may be seeing a large-scale influx of al Qaeda terrorists into the
country.
This stunning disclosure has been made by a small-town newspaper in Arizona, the Tombstone
Tumbleweed, whose editor, Chris Simcox, posted an article on the paper"s website
revealing the presence of Arab-speaking males amid the waves of illegals recently
captured. The article is based on separate, first-hand interviews with three U.S.
government agents who confirmed that males of possible Syrian and Iranian descent have
been detained.
I have acquaintances who are Border Patrol agents in the southern Arizona region. Based on
their take of ground truth, I believe the problem stems from distance, assets, manpower
and equipment. I am personally convinced that our overworked Border Patrol agents are
doing all they can with what they have.
Their patrol area is massive. It extends easterly to the New Mexico line. By the time
agents can act on a request for assistance and get to the scene, hours have passed -
again, because of the vast distances involved.
One might say, "So what is new?" Mexican illegals have been jumping the border
for years. Even Pancho Villa and his bandit Army launched armed incursions into the
American southwest in 1916. Today, in deference to his aggression, the City of Tucson
honors the bandit with a life-size statue. In a Tucson city park, Villa reigns from a full
gallop, not un-reminiscent of how he spread havoc and fear in southern Arizona, for an
eternity to observe and apparently admire.
But today we are at war with an ideology that poses a far deeper peril to our national
security than the Mexican revolutionary ever did. The Islamofascists of al Qaeda seek to
kill men, women and children without distinction and ultimately overcome and ultimately
destroy the concept of American freedom itself.
The task of securing our borders from the porous history of the past is absolutely
critical. And it is not happening.
The influx of thousands of illegal aliens, including members of the infamous drug cartels,
is bad enough. But others are slipping into the United States as well.
A Border Patrol spokesman has confirmed that since Oct. 1, 2003, 5,510 illegal
aliens designated as "Other Than Mexican" (OTM) have been apprehended
while crossing the rugged terrain in southern Arizona. The term actually means "other
than Mexico or other central and South American countries," the spokesman said.
So just who are, and from where, is this invading force of encroachers coming from?
"Can"t tell you that", said Border Patrol spokesman Andy Adame when queried
by the Tombstone Tumbleweed newspaper yesterday. Agent Adame declined to say what
countries the OTM illegals are from, although he admitted detainees include "people
from all over the world." Adame added, "We apprehend them, process them, and
turn them over to [the U.S. Department of] Homeland Security and the FBI and that is all I
can say."
Fasten your seatbelt: It gets considerably worse!
Three independent sources within the Border Patrol's uniformed division - agents who
patrol the Arizona outback in the dark of night - told the Tombstone Tumbleweed newspaper
that a significant amount of the OTMs are of Middle Eastern extraction.
When confronted with this information by the newspaper, Agent Adame denied that anybody of
Middle Eastern origin was a part of the figure of 5,510. But Border Patrol sources are
adamant that this is indeed the case.
Editor Simcox of the Tombstone Tumbleweed could not identify his sources, but told
DefenseWatch they are serving Border Patrol agents who were involved in the apprehension
and detention of OTMs, suspected to be Iranian or Syrian nationals.
Recently, the border patrol has stepped up its enforcement in
the southeast quadrant of Arizona, which includes the area of the Huachuca Mountains in
Cochise County. The Cochise County seat is in Bisbee, an artsy copper mining town, with a
colorful past, located just a few miles north of the America"s southern border with
Mexico.
Southeast Arizona has other high-visibility and potential high payoff targets, of profound
terrorist relevance. At the foot of the Huachuca Mountains lies Fort Huachuca, the home of
the U.S. Army Intelligence Command and school.
Putting yourself in the mind of a terrorist, as a good intelligence analyst must do when
seeking to establish a potential "symbolic target list" that a terrorist may
covet, there exists no more desirable an objective than the Army"s Intelligence
School. Fort Huachuca is a modern version of a 19th Century cavalry outpost that is
nestled on the western edge of Sierra Vista Arizona. Also, it is only a short distance
from the Mexican border.
In fact, only a few weeks ago Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge visited Fort Huachuca
to press the flesh with the troops and to get the "skinny" on the Border
Patrol"s use of unmanned aerial vehicles as an aid to enforcement. (If the reader
believes that the Border Patrol is employing UAV technology merely to catch some errant
migrant workers then I have a bridge in Brooklyn just for you.
According to the Tombstone editor"s sources, on June 13, 2004, Border Patrol agents
from the Wilcox, Ariz., patrol station encountered a large group of illegal border
crossers in the Chiricaucha Mountain foothills, just east of what is known as The Sanders
Ranch. Agents estimated that the group comprised about 100 people.
Border Patrol sources who were present at this mass apprehension state that they seized 71
illegal aliens, of whom 53 were males of Middle Eastern
decent. The suspects did not speak Spanish and spoke only poor English, sources told the
newspaper.
In fact, after a group of the detainees had been placed in a transport van, one
Border Patrol agents on the scene who speaks Arabic and Farsi, the native language of
Iran, clearly overheard the detainees speaking Arabic through an air vent in the transport
vehicle.
Higher-ups in the Border Patrol allegedly ordered these agents involved not to say
a thing to the news media.
"But I have to," one of the agents told the Tombstone editor, obviously acting
out of concern of the potential terrorism threat as every American should be.
The agents involved in the June 13th incident noted that these suspects wore garb and
clothing that is normally worn by migrants: baseball caps, tennis shoes, jeans, T-shirts
even with patriotic American slogans.
But the agents said what was particularly odd was that all the
clothing worn by the Middle Eastern males was brand new. Each one in the group looked to
have had just been to a barber shop with fresh new haircuts, all clean cut, with the exact
style and cut of mustaches.
Border Patrol sources, at the risk of being in violation of orders and losing their jobs,
offered a subsequent chilling revelation. On June 21, 2004, they and their colleagues from
the Wilcox Border Patrol station apprehended another 24 Arabic-speaking males in the area
of Pierce/Sunsites. These small towns are approximately 25 miles northeast of Tombstone
and not far from the Chiricaucha foothills.
Even more worrisome, the agents say, is that the 24 men who were seized were only part of
a larger group. At least half of the group apparently escaped capture and remain on the
loose in the United States.
Today, the 9/11 Commission formally released its report that catalogs the "failures
of imagination, policy, capabilities and management" that enabled the terrorists to
kill over 3,000 Americans. Is our nation"s failure to seal up the porous border with
Mexico setting us up for another 9/11-type attack?
By J. David Galland - J. David
Galland is Deputy Editor of DefenseWatch Magazine http://www.sftt.org
IN OTHER RELATED NEWS
Judicail Watch reports an increase of illegal aliens coming into the U.S. following
President Bush's Jan. 7 announcement of a "guest-worker" program. They filed a
lawsuit in early June against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for records related
to a survey of illegal aliens that was taken to determine whether that program had
influenced the immigrants' decision to cross the border. The guest-worker program would
have offered legal status to millions of undocumented aliens employed in the United
States, even allowing them to seek American citizenship. The Washington Times' Jerry Seper
reported that a confidential Border Patrol report to a Senate committee found that 35
percent of "foreign nationals interviewed by agents after their capture at the
U.S.-Mexico border between Jan. 7 and Jan. 26 acknowledged that rumors of an amnesty
program - outlined in Mexican press reports and passed on by relatives - had influenced
their decision to try to enter the United States illegally." The report mentions that
Border Patrol agents were given questionnaires to "determine [aliens'] 'perception of
the proposed temporary guest-worker program.'" The Bush administration shut down the
survey and refused to release the results from it after learning of the correlation
between the guest-worker proposal and the increase in illegal immigration. We are still
waiting for a response to our lawsuit.
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