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Home Front: WoT
Hezbollah Setting Up Operations Near Border-The Mexican Border
2011-05-06
A terrorist organization whose home base is in the Middle East has established another home base across the border in Mexico.
Not a comfortable thought. Still, they'll be easily accessible for bugging, satellite and UAV reconnaissance, and dropping in from above as needed.
"They are recognized by many experts as the 'A' team of Muslim terrorist organizations," a former U.S. intelligence agent told 10News.

The former agent, referring to Shi'a Muslim terrorist group Hezbollah, added, "They certainly have had successes in big-ticket bombings." Some of the group's bombings include the U.S. embassy in Beirut and Israeli embassy in Argentina. However, the group is now active much closer to San Diego.

"We are looking at 15 or 20 years that Hezbollah has been setting up shop in Mexico," the agent told 10News.

Since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, U.S. policy has focused on al-Qaida and its offshoots. "They are more shooters than thinkers ... it's a lot of muscles, courage, desire but not a lot of training," the agent said, referring to al-Qaida.

Hezbollah, he said, is far more advanced. "Their operators are far more skilled ... they are the equals of Russians, Chinese or Cubans," he said. "I consider Hezbollah much more dangerous in that sense because of strategic thinking; they think more long-term."

Hezbollah has operated in South America for decades and then Central America, along with their sometime rival, sometime ally Hamas. Now, the group is blending into Shi'a Muslim communities in Mexico, including Tijuana.
I didn't know there were many Shiite communities in Mexico...
Other pockets along the U.S.-Mexico border region remain largely unidentified as U.S. intelligence agencies are focused on the drug trade.

"They have had clandestine training in how to live in foreign hostile territories," the agent said.

The agent, who has spent years deep undercover in Mexico, said Hezbollah is partnering with drug organizations, but which ones is not clear at this time. He told 10News the group receives cartel cash and protection in exchange for Hezbollah expertise.

"From money laundering to firearms training and explosives training," the agent said.

For example, he tracked, along with Mexican intelligence, two Hezbollah operatives in safe houses in Tijuana and Durango

"I confirmed the participation of cartel members as well as other Hezbollah individuals living and operating out of there," he said.
Posted by:Beavis

#5  I've often wondered about sudden increase of beheadings....
Posted by: Martini   2011-05-06 22:24  

#4  Why not?

They have Barack Obama and Eric Holder running interference to keep their bomb-runners from being apprehended or even looked-at harshly.

What happens when the first IED goes off on Arazona or Texas and kills a bunch of civilians?

The media will undoubtedly blame the Tea Party.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2011-05-06 18:35  

#3  Judicial Watch via FOIA asked Customs and the Border Patrol for statistics on aliens apprehended for 2010. They received the following:

*U.S. Border Patrol agents apprehended 463,382 individuals smuggled across the border, including 8,905 smugglers. (3,027 of the smugglers apprehended were deemed “deportable.”)
*U.S. Border Patrol agents apprehended 59,017 *“Other Than Mexican” illegal aliens through October 7, 2010.
*Among the nations represented in apprehension statistics are the four countries currently on the State Department’s list of “State Sponsors of Terrorism,” Cuba (712), Iran (14), Syria (5) and Sudan (5), as well as Somalia (9), Afghanistan (9), Pakistan (37), Saudi Arabia (5) and Yemen (11).
*Overall, U.S. Border Patrol agents apprehended 663 “Aliens from Special Interest Countries.” These countries are deemed “special interest” because of their suspected ties to terrorism.
*The countries yielding the highest “Other Than Mexican” apprehensions include: Guatemala (18,406), El Salvador (13,723), and Honduras (13,580).
*(U.S. Border Patrol estimates that three out of every four illegal aliens who cross the border evade apprehension.)
Posted by: JohnQC   2011-05-06 18:16  

#2  I wrote an encompassing piece on this last month if you care for my drivel.
Posted by: newc   2011-05-06 13:48  

#1  Alleged TEX-MEX HEZBOLLAH "BORDER OFFICE" - any relation to NORTH VIETNAM'S FORMER "COSVN" = "Central Office for South Vietnam" aka more popularly during the Vietnam War as THE VIETCONG???

Future ISLAMIST INSURGENCY IN CONUS-NORAM???

"2012".
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2011-05-06 00:59  

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