Right now, it’s just one big, gaping hole waiting for terrorists to come marching in. And today’s Washington Times has an eye-opening article in it that surprisingly I haven’t seen floating around the ‘sphere much.
Nicaraguan police, with U.S. assistance in a sting operation, thwarted black marketeers trying to sell SA-7 shoulder-fired missiles capable of downing commercial aircraft earlier this month, raising fears that some missiles already have been sold to terrorists, The Washington Times has learned.
U.S. officials think the missiles are being provided by elements of the Nicaraguan military. One official said intelligence reports suggest Nicaraguan army elements are keeping a secret stash of SA-7s not inventoried by international inspectors.
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The sting has sounded alarm bells through the Bush administration for a number of reasons. The arrested men thought they were selling missiles to terrorists in Colombia and were willing to sell to Islamic terrorists, the official said. Also, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld in November had won what he believed was a firm agreement from Nicaraguan President Enrique Bolanos to destroy about 1,000 remaining SA-7s. Some in the Bush administration now suspect the military is double-crossing Mr. Bolanos.
Bolanos is fairly pro-American, and his party holds a majority in the legislature. However, the Sandinistas are slowly gaining power, and with the glut of SA-7s left over from the 1980′s, having those in the hands of the Sandinistas would not be a bright prospect for America. Especially since it appears that rogue members of their military are already willing to sell these missiles to Islamic terrorists.
I don’t know what it is that the open borders lobby doesn’t get about things like this. Our security is at risk here. Those missiles only weigh about twenty pounds. They’re highly portable and could easily be brought across the border with the next load of illegal aliens.
We need to clamp the border down hard, and soon, or we’re liable to be facing another 9/11 or worse.
Thank you for spreading the word. I live in Arizona, and believe me, you are spot on. Every day I see border patrol agents patroling the highways (I live about 2 hours from the border), but there are not enough of them.
Have you seen the show on CMT about the people who formed their own border patrol. I’m not sure, but I think it is in Arizona. It’s very interesting.
I’ve heard about that. More power to them. The government sure isn’t doing enough to stop the illegals coming across.
Now, I don’t like to brag about my psychic powers, but I had a prediction come to me that I just had to share.
Headline reads: 4 CHARGED IN SHOOTING OF UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANT.
Given recent trends, who wants to start a dead pool on how long it takes for somebody to get a life sentence when some illegal tries to evade (or shoot at) this citizen’s border patrol?
Seriously, we ask for better enforcement, we don’t get it — OK, if you want something done right, do it yourself. But now I won’t be at all surprised if it comes back to bite us.
The worst part is that, like all of DHS, it’s very hard to point at one instance and say, "See there, they stopped a giant terrorist attack." You don’t see what doesn’t happen, but the one time that somebody has to use lethal force, or messes up, the whole program begs to get canned.
Sometimes just thinking about libs makes me feel sick.