Terrorists Casing the Mexican Border - Commentary by Jim Dean, Heritage TV

Jim Dean, Heritage TV producer/host

Jim Dean is the producer of Heritage TV and a member of Georgia Heritage Council.

Terrorists Casing the Mexican Border – Commentary by Jim Dean

Dear legal Americans,

One of my heritage memberships is with the Military Order of World Wars where I am PR & Homeland Security Officer here in Atlanta. I am also a member of AFIO, the Association of Former Intelligence Officers. Through these organization connections, I have a lot of access to the snake-oil salesmen's routine that is being played on the public with the so called 'War on Terror.'

Early on I was told that they planned to do nothing more than cosmetic stuff to really secure the borders, much to the dismay of the professional Intel people, the loyal ones (i.e., not just doing it for the paycheck, which many of them are).

Some of the stuff that has been passed on to me is so scary that I have not shared or repeated it. This is stuff where the Intel guys put on a terrorist hat, and role-play what they would do if they were the bad guys. Pre-positioning of certain items in Mexico was one of them. And placing deep cover people in Central America to become acclimated with the language and culture before crossing over would be another.

As you will read below, there was an attempt to keep this quiet. The Congressman acting like he is angry about Congress not being informed is crying crocodile tears. Anyone in Washington who wants to know this stuff can. Many don't want to as it would put them into the position of having to take on the manipulators, who pay very well for people to not do this...and have an entirely different program for those who do.

I have mentioned in earlier columns that Bush refusing to really get serious on the borders, just to protect the cheap labor supply for his business constituents, would trump national security in a heart beat. I still stand by that. It's a disgrace. They are spending us into oblivion and still refusing to take the job seriously, turning it over to the PR guys to dress up their half-hearted effort.

They won't take away the slave labor from the biz crowd, but they will take away a lot of our rights in a rush through Patriot Act, some of which I heartily support. What they do is slip in the nasty stuff with the good and force you to eat it.

We don't have too much of a ready option here. The Dems would actually compete to keep the border open.

For Washington politicians, their power trumps everything, including national security, so you might want to ask next time you vote for somebody, 'Who are you really representing?'

What you will read below is just the tip of the iceberg.

Jim Dean is the producer of Heritage TV and a member of the Georgia Heritage Council.

Al-Qaida Operative Nabbed Near Mexican Border
Newsmax.com
November 20, 2005

An al-Qaida operative who was on the FBI's terrorist watch list was recently captured near the Mexican border, housed in a Texas jail and turned over to federal agents, Rep. John Culberson, R-Texas, said on Friday.

"A confirmed al-Qaida terrorist, an Iraqi national, was held in the Brewster County jail," Rep. Culberson told ABC Radio host Sean Hannity. "He was captured in Mexico. This was within the last six weeks. He was turned over to the FBI."

The Texas Republican said he obtained the stunning information about the terrorist's capture "from the sheriffs who were directly involved.

"In fact, one was the sheriff who incarcerated him in the Brewster County jail [and who] confirmed this as well," he explained. The same sheriff also confirmed "that this guy is on the FBI's al-Qaida list," he added.

The al-Qaida operative "had been in Mexico, living just about 60 miles east of El Paso," Rep. Culberson said. "He was captured in a little town called El Porvenir, right across from Fort Hancock."

Rep. Culberson said the detainee had been living in Mexico for up to a year, where the terrorist "was taking careful notes on the movement of people, police officers, wildlife, etc."

The Iraqi national "had apparently aggravated a neighbor in Mexico, who turned him in to Mexican authorities," he explained. Mexican officials then turned him over to the U.S. officials, who temporarily housed him in the Brewster County jail.

Asked why this news hadn't been reported earlier, Culberson told Hannity, "That's a very good question and one that I intend to get to the bottom of in my subcommittee."

Rep. Culberson sits on the appropriations subcommittee with jurisdiction over the FBI and the Department of Justice. "I guarantee that we're going to get to the bottom of this," he pledged.

He said FBI Director Robert Mueller had previously "confirmed" in testimony before his committee "that there are individuals from countries with known al-Qaida connections who are changing their Islamic surnames to Hispanic-sounding names and obtaining false Hispanic identities, learning to speak Spanish and pretending to be Hispanic immigrants."

"And these are clearly Arab terrorists," Rep. Culberson added, "from countries like Yemen, Iraq and Saudi Arabia. They're crossing the border, pretending to be Hispanic immigrants, and then disappearing."

Rep. Culberson said news of al-Qaida's penetration of the U.S.'s southern border has him worried that the next terrorist plot could involve setting off simultaneous truck bombs in major urban centers.

"The day they blow us up," he predicted, "the border will be sealed tighter than the Berlin Wall and you'll have armed United States military forces" enforcing immigration laws.

www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/11/20/151654.shtml