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2010-06-06 Home Front: WoT

WA Arms Cache Tied To Illegal Alien Iranian Coming From Canada

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Posted by Frank G 2010-06-06 15:07|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top

#1 The .223 rifles (semiauto?) and ammo don't have much use in Iran since they get that stuff much cheaper and less risk from the Chinese or make their own. My guess is Iranian agents stockpiling for a terror campaign when the US-Iran balloon goes up.

Posted by ed 2010-06-06 15:44|| 2010-06-06 15:44|| Front Page Top

#2 US Iran balloon?

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2010-06-06 15:45|| 2010-06-06 15:45|| Front Page Top

#3 war.

Posted by ed 2010-06-06 15:51|| 2010-06-06 15:51|| Front Page Top

#4 My question:

Why smuggle weapons into the US which are perfectly legal to own in the US?

Posted by badanov 2010-06-06 15:58|| http://www.freefirezone.org 2010-06-06 15:58|| Front Page Top

#5 can't buy them with his ID/status? I suspect he was a sleeper supplier too. No background checks....

Posted by Frank G 2010-06-06 16:01|| 2010-06-06 16:01|| Front Page Top

#6 Why smuggle weapons into the US which are perfectly legal to own in the US?

For further transshipment?

Posted by Pappy 2010-06-06 16:29|| 2010-06-06 16:29|| Front Page Top

#7 plus, Messico is intolerant of illegal aliens

other than their own, of course

Posted by Frank G 2010-06-06 16:30|| 2010-06-06 16:30|| Front Page Top

#8 Weapons cache for sleepers here. You could stir up a lot of fear with that stuff. Funding courtesy of Iran.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2010-06-06 16:48|| 2010-06-06 16:48|| Front Page Top

#9 Iran is probably behind the current destabilizing influx of weapons into Messico - that would make sense (from their perspective) too.

Posted by DirtCrashr 2010-06-06 18:29|| 2010-06-06 18:29|| Front Page Top

#10 "Thus he is in the country illegally, it alleges."

Doesn't that mean that ICE was required to let him go? I thought they weren't supposed to interfere with illegals.

"For further transshipment?"

I don't think so. I believe this guy was one of probably several people in this country performing the logistics function of arming Iranian/Hezbollah sleeper cells that would be activated in case of any action against Iran over their nukes.

I can't know first hand about any of that but it would be consistent with things Iran has said and capabilities they are claimed to have.

This is probably the tip of an iceberg.

Posted by crosspatch 2010-06-06 18:55|| 2010-06-06 18:55|| Front Page Top

#11 Think of the D.C. Sniper times 200.

Posted by CrazyFool 2010-06-06 19:40|| 2010-06-06 19:40|| Front Page Top

#12 It's easy to hike across the border into Canada from Ferndale.

Posted by Greating Pelosi5752 2010-06-06 19:50|| 2010-06-06 19:50|| Front Page Top

#13 I believe this guy was one of probably several people in this country performing the logistics function of arming Iranian/Hezbollah sleeper cells

Possibly. But don't discount 1) the price that would be fetched selling such weapons south of the border and 2) the length people go to make money.

Posted by Pappy 2010-06-06 20:00|| 2010-06-06 20:00|| Front Page Top

#14 If I were going to sell weapons South of the border, why would I go to Yamhill County, Oregon, buy them, and then haul them back North to Washington closer to the Canadian border? Why wouldn't I haul them to California closer to the Mexican border? The Mexican drug cartels have hundreds of people in California tending illegal pot groves on public lands. You could sell them directly to the cartel members without having to take them across the border yourself.

I believe these weapons were being cached for Iranian operatives who were to come across the border from Canada at some future point.

Posted by crosspatch 2010-06-06 20:46|| 2010-06-06 20:46|| Front Page Top

#15 GUARDIAN.UK > seems BRITANNIA = UK-London has decided to follow CANADA + formally set up STREET-LEVEL SURVEILLANCE CAMERAS = PUBLIC MONTORING SYSTEMS IN TROUBLED OR SUSPECT MUSLIM NEIGHBORHOODS???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-06-06 22:53|| 2010-06-06 22:53|| Front Page Top

#16 ION NOT-NECESSARILY-UNRELATED, WMF > ZHAO ZHAOZHONG: US SALE(S) OF ARMS TO TAIWAN WOULD BE AKIN TO CHINA SELLING ARMS TO ANTI-US/FEDERAL OPPOSITION OR MILITANT ELEMENTS [Pol, Militant Parties-Groups] IN THE US STATE OF HAWAII.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-06-06 22:59|| 2010-06-06 22:59|| Front Page Top

#17 It's easy to hike across the border into Canada from Ferndale

Used to live in Ferndale WA. Still about 10Mi or so from the border. Quite a ways to pack it over open farmland - most of it pasture. Knew some people in Sumas who live, literally, about 300' from the border - which was little more than a ditch.

Posted by CrazyFool 2010-06-06 23:05|| 2010-06-06 23:05|| Front Page Top

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