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2006-10-25 Home Front: WoT

Texas Border Vulnerable To (Venezuela-enabled) Terrorists

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Posted by anonymous5089 2006-10-25 10:25|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "Hundreds of aliens from special interest countries that are known to harbor terrorists or promote terrorism are routinely encountered and apprehended".
Of course drug cartels don't give a shit where they get money. These Muzzie clowns have fist fulls. They are the cadre who will organize cells and terror missions. All this is well known, yet the federal government knowingly disregards the safety of the US homeland. Why ? What is the agenda ? This should be topic one on the discussion of border control. The same is occurring on Canadian border, where there really is no interdiction to speak of. This is folly. The public turns a blind eye to this, at the cost of their lives and cities.

Posted by SpecOp35 2006-10-25 10:49|| 2006-10-25 10:49|| Front Page Top

#2 Once again Rantburg beats the MSM to the punch. Someone (OldSpook?) posted a link to the actual report days ago. But I'm very glad to know the CBS local affiliate down in Texas has picked up on it -- good find, a5089. How do you find American news reports compared to French? ;-)

Posted by trailing wife 2006-10-25 12:14|| 2006-10-25 12:14|| Front Page Top

#3 I dunno, I get my news from RB...

Posted by anonymous5089 2006-10-25 12:16|| 2006-10-25 12:16|| Front Page Top

#4 The Subcommittee on Investigations of the House Homeland Security Committee found that the government of President Hugo Chavez has issued thousands of identity documents that could help terrorists elude immigration checks and illegally enter the United States.

There was something about that in the local paper this morning.

Essentially, Houston Congressman John Culberson spoke to a media group and accused the Venezuelan government of "issuing Venezuelan passports to Middle Eastern terrorists and allowing them to change their Islamic surnames to Hispanic and teaching them the language and the culture and getting them into Mexico where they're crossing the border."

Which you must admit is pretty hot stuff. The next day, McCaul (head of the committee which wrote the report) came to address the same group, and was asked about Culberson's charge. He said (not in so many words) that Culberson was talking out his nether regions when he described the training camps, etc. And that they couldn't even pin the Pakistanis' documents on the Venezuelan government.

However, the author of the article I linked, Rick Casey, goes straight from "I suppose you know, this means war" to "It's all a bunch of crap." In other words, even this CBS story is an exaggeration. (I'll point out that I've been unimpressed with Casey in the few times I've read him. Smug git.)

Here's the link to the McCaul Report (PDF) for anyone who wants to wade through it. One of the items Casey refers to as an "old" press report is a Washington Times article from this spring in which Chavez tells Al Jazeera that "I am on the offensive." See page 31.

Posted by Angie Schultz 2006-10-25 12:17|| 2006-10-25 12:17|| Front Page Top

#5 Btw, try http://www.rantburg.com/qsearch.php?q=tri-border.

Posted by anonymous5089 2006-10-25 12:35|| 2006-10-25 12:35|| Front Page Top

#6 Rantburg discussion, excerpts from report, images of patches here.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2006-10-25 22:31|| 2006-10-25 22:31|| Front Page Top

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