MS-13 SMUGGLES THOUSANDS OF MUSLIM TERRORISTS INTO U.S.
Al Qaeda and the Latino Gang-Bangers
The situation at the border now poses a grave threat to national security.
Agent Mike Scioli of the U.S. Border Patrol confirms that the Tucson sector of the Border Patrol is facing a worsening problem with Mara Salvatrucha, a Salvadoran street gang that now controls the flow of arms, drugs, and illegal aliens into the U.S.
Two members of the violent gang were collared last week in Tucson and Nogales.
Twenty have been brought into custody since President Barack Obama assumed the oath of office on January 20, 2009. But the Salvadoran gang is bringing more than guns, dope, and Mexican peasant workers over the border.
In the wake of 9/11, Mara Salvatrucha attracted the attention of top al Qaeda officials, who realized that the gang could be used to smuggle operatives and weapons into the United States. An agreement was forged between the terrorists and the gang-bangers. In exchange for safe passage across the border, al Qaeda, through its cells in South America, agreed to pay the Maras from $30,000 to $50,000 for each sleeper agent they managed to smuggle into the country with bogus matricula consulars. Matricula consulars are official identification cards that are issued by the Mexican government through its consular offices. The cards verify that the bearers are Mexican citizens who are living outside of Mexico with the government's permission.
According to US officials, these cards pose a grave threat to national security. Steven McCraw, assistant director of the FBI's Office of Intelligence, told a House Judiciary Subcommittee: "The ability of foreign nationals to use the matricula consular provides an opportunity for terrorists to move freely within the United States without triggering name-based watch lists that are disseminated to local police officers."
Counterfeit matricula consulars are easy to obtain. In Los Angeles, the going rate is $90; in New York City $150.
News of the alliance between al Qaeda and Mara Salvatrucha prompted Honduran officials, including Security Minister Oscar Alvarez, to adopt a zero-tolerance law that makes membership in the street gang punishable by twelve years in prison. Mara members responded to this legislation by beheading scores of victims and leaving notes on the bodies for the Honduran government. One note read: "Idiots, the end of the world is approaching."
According to border patrol officials, including Sheriff D'Wayne Jenigan of Del Rio, Texas, thousands of Special Interest Aliens (SIAs), with the help of Mara Salvatrucha "coyotes," have made their way across the Mexican border and into the land of the free and the home of the brave.
Such SIAs come from countries that pose national security concerns: Saudi Arabia, Syria, Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Egypt, Somalia, Yemen, Jordan, Lebanon, and even Iraq.
The routes used by illegal aliens to enter the U.S. have become littered with discarded Muslim prayer blankets, pages from Islamic texts, and Arabic newspapers. Law enforcement officials have named such passageways "terrorists' alleys" and a street leading north from the city of Douglas, Arizona, as "Arab Road."
True?
Well... from LinkedIn:
D'Wayne Jernigan's Experience
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Sheriff
Val Verde Sheriff's Office
(Law Enforcement industry)
June 1997 -- January 2009 (11 years 8 months)
Special Agent-in-Charge
U.S.Customs Service
(Law Enforcement industry)
January 1971 -- January 1996 (25 years 1 month)
From the Media Awareness project dated 2005:
GANGS POSE BORDER THREAT
DEL RIO, Texas - Val Verde County Sheriff
But in the last year, the risks of drug-fueled terrorism have raised the stakes to scary levels. Rifles and handguns have been replaced by rocket-propelled grenades, or RPGs, and high-caliber machine guns.
"Now the bad guys have more sophisticated training and better equipment," "Sheriff Jernigan said. "They're better armed and willing to shoot."
NORRIS: Sheriff, could you paint a picture for us of Val Verde? What's your stretch of the border look like?
Sheriff JERNIGAN: You've seen the pictures of Afghanistan? That's what it looks like out here in the, our terrain is so similar to Afghanistan's. And I've never been to Afghanistan. But the pictures I've seen that the press gives us on TV, golly, I look at it and go, my God, that's Val Verde County. Remote. No major population centers. Wide open for anyone to cross. Hot. Dry. Certainly not a place you want to be walking 100 miles across with no water.
NORRIS: But that's exactly what people do.
Sheriff JERNIGAN: That's exactly what people do. And I certainly don't want to see the aliens having to confront that. I'd rather see some sort of logical process that, if they're going to enter this country, I think we should set in some kind of process that would at least cause them not to think about walking across this desert. It is quite rugged. Lots of hills and valleys and canyons, snakes and tarantulas and all kinds of creepy creatures and it's certainly not a friendly environment.
NORRIS: Where and how do people slip across that border?
Sheriff JERNIGAN: Well in our county, we have 109 miles bordering Mexico. That entire border is made up of the Rio Grande River or the Rio Bravo River as it's referred to in Mexico. Many times that river, depending upon the amount of water being released from the Amistad Dam, which is here in our county, if the amount of water they're releasing is low, then you can walk across the river, you know, and scarcely get the heels of your shoes wet. But if they're letting large amounts of water out, of course you can drown just trying to cross this river.
10 comments:
Epaminondas,
This is scary, since its likely that many of them will be full fledged Jihadists working for Al Qeada or some other Islamic terrorist organization.
Speaking of MS 13, the episode of Explorer called "World's most dangerous Gang" comes on today on the National Geographic Channel. It is about the gang. It airs at 4pm and 11pm pacific time. If you are anyone else is interested in seeing it.
I am skeptical for one reason: It's bad for business for all drug cartels, gangs, and human traffickers. If even one Al Qaeda operative launches a successful attack in the U.S. (and is traced to entering through the Mexican border), that border will become like the 38th parallel in the Korean Penninsula. If that were to happen, illegal immigration would stymie, gangs would be largely immobilized, and cartels would lose billions of dollars worth of business. Aiding jihadists would not be in the interest of any of those groups, and any particular parties aided jihadists, it would be fair to deduce that they would face the wrath and brutal vengeance of all the other irrate parties who lost all their major stakes in the United States. While the players South of the Border have largely questionable ethics, they do understand what's good and bad for their business endeavors.
Total,
Greed is an emotion and the gangsters probably are not even considering that possibility. They probably just want the money that the terrorists can give them.
Plus, as of yet, they are not facing any brutal vengeance of any kind. I have a feeling that they are not thinking too much in the long term, or they just don't care. Is joining a violent street gang, the smartest thing to do in the first place?
Williams is no dummy, and the Sheriff is the real deal, but how can this be vetted past that?
THOUSANDS OF JIHADISTS?
Are the smuggling trails littered with pages from texts?
LITTERED?
Hard to encompass, but would we be truly shocked? Tar and feathers all around. From Clinton to OBama and all in between ..and THEN CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE TRIALS
Yes, but what about the millions to billions they would potentially lose by being denied to their biggest market, the United States? Many gang leaders find refuge in the U.S. when things aren't going well down South. After a terrorist attack in the U.S. originating from Mexico, they likely wouldn't find an easy refuge. How would the other cartels and their allies react to the individuals or group that aided the terrorist(s) to pass? They are generally heavily connected and intertwined and are all well-known for their sickening methods of torture and corpse disposal. MS-13 is more than a street gang as it has become a global syndicate; they simply gain their ranks through the street. There is also a lot of collaboration between the cartels and gangs like MS-13 for drug distribution and contact hits within the Unoted States. I.E. Los Zetas may order a hit in the United States and have MS-13 carry it out.
Just to show you the amount of power these cartels wield, here is a summary of one of them:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_zetas
Here is a story of a 16 year old hitman who became a target himself after botching a job:
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/111007dntexhitman.3641590.html
The Canadian border has long been the more attractive crossing point for terrorists due to less stringent security measures. See the Al Qaeda plot to blow up LAX and the Space Needle on the new years of 2000.
Total,
Think like a criminal. MS13 is like the Mafia, there is an old saying that goes something like this "if there was profit in it, the Mob would sell cancer." As long as it has no immediate negative effect on them, they may not care. Plus, do they understand the jihadists motivations? Even if they did, they might not care, so long as they could get a profit out of it. They are organized crime, not ethical business men. Plus, if there was another terrorist attack in the United States and it could be traced back to people who were smuggled in by MS 13, the response might not be as harsh as you think. MS 13 is not the government of Mexico, and even with the chaos down there, we might have a lot of trouble convincing our leaders to invade, especially if the attack was on a scale, much smaller than 9/11, because MS 13 gang members are criminals, and they are regarded as such by the Mexican government, even if it is corrupt.
Plus, Its probably safe to say that the overwhelming majority of people within MS 13 or any of the South and Central American drug cartels are not experts on terrorism or its motivations. Few if any of them, probably know much, if anything about Jihad, or what motivates Jihadists, and we have reason to think that they would not care, even if they did. When they see money being offered to them, its possible that all they see the money that they are being offered, and nothing else.
MS-13 has nothing to fear from the Mexican government, as they both fear the drug cartels. MS-13 is, in many cases, employed by the drug cartels. The drug cartels are brutal beyond comprehension and there is nobody in Central America that is out of reach of their vengeance. When their profits are at stake, anybody is fair game.
Why are the Italian mafias still successful after all these years? Because there are certain lines they even refuse to cross. Even in their own unethical world there are commonly understood boundaries, such as "don't kill federal agents". If they killed a federal agent, that would be crippling for business as well as all operations since every small move they make in all endeavors would be highly scrutinized and watched. These crime syndicates tend to prefer low visibility to avoid any obstacles to their profits and potential markets.
Of course there can always be rogue individuals, but business comes first to these gangs, cartels, and crime syndicates and they will forcefully and brutally eliminate any threat to their profits and market access.
Total,
Maybe MS 13 just has even less respect for lawful authority than the Italian Mafia. Anyway, someone needs to crack down, on them, hard! That we can agree on.
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