Archive for the 'War On Terror' Category

In the ever-increasing desire by those in Mexico to enter the United States illegally, crossing under the cover of darkness may not be enough to be successful. A new method, which is becoming more and more prevalent, is to dig a tunnel from one country to the other:

The bedroom of a luxurious Mexicali residence a block from the border hid a secret tunnel leading to neighboring Calexico, Mexican officials said yesterday.

Inside the passageway, investigators discovered lighting and ventilation equipment, a closed-circuit security system, hydraulic machinery and various tools, according to a statement yesterday by the Mexican Federal Attorney General’s Office, or PGR.  
 
The findings led agents to surmise that “the tunnel was used for illicit activities, presumably related to drug trafficking,” the statement said.

My hat’s off to the Mexican authorities for finding this tunnel and two others in the past fifteen months, that has to something that is quite difficult to detect. Hydraulic equipment does rate high on the decibel meter, but with the cover of several feet of earth, the sound would be easily muffled.

And while it may have been related to drug trafficking, running a parade of non-US citizens through such a tunnel is not outside the realm of possibility. How long until Islamic terrorists are tunneled into this country in such a fashion?

Even worse, what if some already have been?

Lynne Stewart, a left-wing activist and general moonbat, was convicted just a short time ago of smuggling messages from one of her clients, a radical Egyptian sheik, to his followers, urging them to commit violent terrorist attacks.

Since she’s sixty-five, and her sentence should be at least twenty years, that should pretty much wrap things up for her.

Now, can we prosecute someone for getting the Hezbollah to help promote their documentary propaganda film?

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.