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Details emerge about deadly cross-border shooting

by Admin on February 3, 2012 in Gulf Cartel, Hamas, Hezbollah, Illegal Immigration, Mexican Cartel War, Sinaloa cartel, Zetas with No comments

The Monitor

NEAR SULLIVAN CITY — The five men who illegally crossed the Rio Grande to reportedly avoid apprehension Thursday by the Mexican military were unarmed when soldiers shot at them from Mexico, a U.S. law enforcement source close to the investigation said.

One man died on U.S. federal land, another suffered a non-life threatening gunshot wound to the ankle and three others were taken into custody by U.S. federal authorities, San Antonio FBI Spokesperson Eric Vasys said Friday.

U.S. authorities have yet to disclose the events that drove the men to cross the Rio Grande about 6 p.m. Thursday near the Mexican town of Diaz Ordaz, which is southwest of the U.S town of Sullivan City.

“We’re looking into the circumstances that led to these individuals crossing over,” Vasys said. “(The investigation) is still ongoing and we’re trying to sort it out.”

A Border Patrol agent not authorized to speak publicly about the investigation told a Monitor reporter that a U.S. Customs and Border Protection chopper radioed in a shots-fired call about two hours prior to the shooting.

Someone on U.S. soil apparently shot at the helicopter that was allegedly carrying advisors to the White House and the Department of Homeland Security as they toured the border near La Joya, he said.

Vasys said he had not heard of any such reports.

A second law enforcement official, also not authorized to speak publicly, said that likely did not happen.

“It was not a U.S. law enforcement helicopter that got fired on, but rather a Mexican government helicopter,” the second U.S. law enforcement official said.

A Mexican military chopper began chasing after the men during an operation along the river, and the men shot at it at one point or another while in Mexico, he said.

It’s unclear if they swam across the river or simply found a location where they could cross the border by foot, but the individuals apparently ditched their weapons before crossing into the U.S. because authorities did not find any on them, he added.

“When they got to the U.S. side, the illegals that had crossed over started taunting the Mexican military — doing all kinds of obscene gestures and cuss words — and then the military fired upon them,” he said. “We don’t believe the illegals that came across were armed.”

 

Bad Blood?

A source outside law enforcement said that for a long time, certain members of the Mexican military had been working alongside members of the Gulf Cartel.

In order to keep up appearances, drug smugglers would leave behind vehicles loaded drugs for the soldiers to seize so the members of the military could report back to their superiors, the source said. The communications to coordinate the drops between drug smugglers and soldiers were carried out with Nextel radio communication telephones that are difficult to trace.

However, during the organization’s internal struggle that began last September, some of these troops were caught in the crossfire.

“They are mad and now all bets are off,” the source said. “Remember, last week (Jan. 26), the military killed some people in the morning, and then the ambush happened. The ‘Verdes’ are out for blood.”

In an apparent day of firefights last week, the Mexican military was ambushed in the streets of Reynosa by members of the Gulf Cartel who set up a bait car to draw out the soldiers. The Mexican military didn’t issue any news releases in connection with the firefights that day.

Prior to that, unknown assailants had lobbed two grenades at the headquarters of the Matamoros military police, killing one man and critically injuring another.

Vasys did not have information about whether the men taken into custody Thursday night were armed or not, he said, adding that U.S. authorities did not discharge their weapons at any time during the incident.

Authorities, who remain tight-lipped about the shooting, did not release the men’s identities.

Mexican Consulate officials in McAllen also were waiting to learn the identity of the deceased man, Consul Jose Manuel Gutierrez Minera said about 4:30 p.m. Friday. He expected the information to come from federal authorities late Friday.

“Out of respect for the family, we usually wait to contact them first before releasing information,” he said.

U.S. authorities do not know if anyone died in Mexico during the incident, Vasys said.

The FBI is heading the investigation because the incident happened on land owned by the federal government.

“It’s not a common theme for FBI to be involved in altercations (along the border) because so much of what we do is long-term investigation,” he said. “Historically, the FBI is a follow-up investigative entity unless we’re working an active investigation of drug trafficking by the cartels or gang activity along the border.”

The agency, however, does get involved any time a federal agent is wounded or killed, he said. So if a Border Patrol agent is hurt along the border, the FBI will take over those investigations, too.

Vasys would not comment on whether the shooting could be classified as spillover violence.

“I’m not going to speak to that,” he said. “FBI deals with investigation and enforcement. So what we’re doing is the follow up to the death that occurred on U.S. property. I’m not going to speak to what this may or may not be characterized by other government sources.”

 

Spillover

“The situation in Mexico has been a concern for our agency,” said Texas DPS Director Steve McCraw.

“Our concern is that criminal organizations in Mexico combating each other or the Mexican military could attempt to flee to our side of the border. To address those concerns, we have established contingency plans and work alongside federal and local agencies.”

The incident in Havana is just one of the many types of incidents law enforcement in the area is prepared for.

“The average citizen should know that there are state, local and federal law enforcement professionals working in a proactive fashion to address any contingency. Texas has been very proactive in this; we have increased our patrol presence and our tactical capabilities to deter any situation.”

While McCraw was not able to discuss details of the situation, he said his agency dissects and studies all border incidents that it responds to.

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Former DEA Chief: Hezbollah Eyeing Southwest Border, ‘Hell to Pay in the Not Too Distant Future’

by Admin on February 3, 2012 in CAIR, Creeping Communism, Creeping Sharia, Gulf Cartel, Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Islam, Islamization of America, Islamo-Fascism, Israel, Mexican Cartel War, Sinaloa cartel, Zetas with No comments

Via: CNS News, by Penny Starr

February 2, 2012

Michael Braun, former Chief of Operations at the Drug Enforcement Agency, testified at a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on Feb. 2, 2012 that Iran's influence in the Western Hemisphere reaches all the way to the U.S. border with Mexico. (CNSNews.com/Penny Starr)

(CNSNews.com) – The Iranian-supported Shi’ite terrorist group Hezbollah has spread its influence all the way to the U.S. border with Mexico, a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on Iran’s influence in the Western Hemisphere heard on Thursday.

Michael Braun, a former chief of operations at the Drug Enforcement Agency, said Hezbollah had developed relationships with the powerful Mexican drug cartels to “move their agenda forward.” He cited a plot, recently uncovered by the DEA, involving an Iranian operative in Mexico allegedlyplanning to assassinate the Saudi ambassador in Washington, D.C.

“Hezbollah are absolute masters at forming close relationships with existing organized crime groups around the world that helps them facilitate what they need to do to move their agendas forward,” Braun told CNSNews.com following the hearing. “And if anyone thinks for a moment that they don’t have their eye on the southwest border and all of our country, then they couldn’t be more wrong.”

In his prepared remarks Braun, who also served as interim director of the Department of Justice’s Drug Intelligence Fusion Center, said Hezbollah and other terrorist groups understand that the Mexican cartels are already operating successfully inside the United States.

“If anyone thinks for one moment that these terrorist organizations do not understand that the Mexican drug trafficking cartels now dominate drug trafficking in our country – reportedly in more than 250 cities – than they are very stupid or very naive,” he said.

“And these groups most assuredly recognize the strategic value of exploiting that activity, and all that has been built to support it, for moving their vision forward in this part of the world.”

Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, chairwoman of the committee, said on Feb. 2, 2012, that Iran has changed it tactics to include planning attacks on the United States. (CNSNews.com/Penny Starr)

Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.), chairwoman of the committee, cited Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Quds Force and its connections to the Zeta drug cartel in the foiled assassination attempt on U.S. soil.

She asked Braun whether he believed Iran had “strategic interests” in Central America and the southwest border.

Braun said Quds Force and Hezbollah work “very, very hard” to develop relationships with criminal groups that already have in place systems for illegal activities, including drug and human trafficking, money laundering and forged document operations.

“And by developing those relations it provides them with the ability to operate far from home in our neighborhood and – as I said earlier – on our doorstep,” he replied.

Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas), committee member and chairman of the Homeland Security Committee’s subcommittee of oversight and investigations, asked about Hezbollah’s relationship to criminal organizations in the Western Hemisphere and what it means for U.S. security.

Braun warned that those relationships allow “these groups to operate freely in our neighborhood” and said the U.S. would regret it if the threats were not taken seriously.

“I don’t want to sound too crude, but I think there’s going to be hell to pay in the not too distant future,” he said.

For the most part the tone of the hearing was bipartisan in nature, with Democrats on the committee agreeing that Iran is trying to exert influence in the Western Hemisphere.

Rep. Gary Ackerman (D-N.Y.) said Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s recent trip to Venezuela, Cuba, Ecuador and Nicaragua, is proof that Iran is “up to no good.”

But Rep. Howard Berman (D-Calif.), ranking member of the committee, defended the Obama administration against claims that it is complacent about the threat Iran poses closer to home.

“Our government is fully attentive to this matter,” he said.

An expert witness testifying before the panel, Norman A. Bailey, called for Venezuela to be named a state sponsor of terrorism for “facilitating Iranian illicit activity,” noting among other things Iran’s role in the Venezuelan banking system.

“Responding to this threat requires the United States and allied governments to complicate Iranian access to the Americas, and penalize those involved in facilitating Tehran’s intrusion, said Bailey, who served in the Reagan administration’s National Security Council and later in the Office of the Director of Na­tional Intelligence, where he served as “mission manager” for Venezuela and Cuba.

“This includes measures such as the designation of certain Venezuelan banks and affiliates by the U.S. Treasury Department and other agencies for their role in facilitating Iranian illicit activity, and even the outright declaration of Venezuela as a state sponsor of terrorism – a move that would open the door for the U.S. to take more direct and punitive action against the Chavez regime for its collusion with both Iran and Hezbollah,” Bailey said.

Ros-Lehtinen recalled what Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said at a Senate hearing on Tuesday, focused on global threats to the U.S.

“[Clapper] stated this week, ‘Iranian officials – probably including supreme leader Ali Khamenei – have changed their calculus and are now willing to conduct an attack in the United States.’”

Ros-Lehtinen said Iran’s alliances in Latin America provide it with “a platform in the region to carry out attacks against the United States, our interests, and allies.”

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(Video) The Grand Jihad

by Admin on February 3, 2012 in CAIR, Creeping Communism, Creeping Sharia, Hamas, Hezbollah, Islam, Islamization of America, Islamo-Fascism with 1 Comment

Via: Pubsecrets

Encounter Books recently published “The Grand Jihad: how Islam and the Left sabotage America,” by former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy. It’s a book I highly recommend as a study not of the threat of terrorism, per se, but of the assault on the Western liberal tradition of tolerant, pluralist politics. It is a battle waged by political, legal, and cultural means, in which jihadist Islam and the secular Left are allies.

The following video, narrated by Bill Whittle, looks at one aspect of this struggle: the Muslim Brotherhood and the feckless response of the Obama administration.

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“Iran’s Latin America Ties Pose Threat to US”

by Admin on February 3, 2012 in Creeping Communism, Creeping Sharia, Gulf Cartel, Hamas, Hezbollah, Islamization of America, Islamo-Fascism, Israel, Mexican Cartel War, Sinaloa cartel, Zetas with No comments

From the Voice of America

Members of a U.S. congressional panel expressed concern Thursday that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s ties to several Latin American leaders could pose a threat to U.S. national security. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper told the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs that senior Iranian officials are “now more willing to conduct an attack in the United States.“  He said Iran is trying to penetrate and engage in the Western Hemisphere.

The chairwoman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, said some people might question whether the Iranian-Latin American connection is a threat, but she said there is cause for concern.

“Iran’s [President Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad recently returned from his ‘Tour of Tyrants’ trip to visit Venezuela, Nicaragua, Cuba and Ecuador.  Media reports have indicated an increased presence of Iran’s Quds Force in these countries and offices of Iran’s intelligence services surfacing throughout the region,” said Ros-Lehtinen. “The fact that the military arm of a state-sponsor of terrorism has its operatives within multiple countries in our hemisphere is certainly cause for alarm and merits congressional focus.“

Obama administration officials say the United States is keeping a close watch on Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s ties to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. During Ahmadinejad’s recent visit to Venezuela, he and Chavez praised each other and joked about concerns in the West about Iran’s relations with Latin America.

Could be? Could be?????? COULD BE??????????????????

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Hamas Leader In Greece Seen Training Gaza Flotilla Crew…

by Admin on June 30, 2011 in CAIR, Hamas, Muslim Brotherhood with No comments

Shocker.

(JPost) — Hamas leader from Holland Amin Abu Rashid has been seen in recent days training with a Gaza-bound flotilla crew in Greece, according to a report by Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf on Thursday.

Rashid, described as the “brain” behind the flotilla, helped arrange the purchasing of theDutch boat expected to be used in the expedition, De Telegraaf reported.

Rashid also allegedly organized the majority of the funding for the flotilla, the report said.

The participation of a Hamas member in the Gaza-bound flotilla proves that the flotilla does not have humanitarian intent, but is actually a provocation and a terror operation, Public Affairs and Diplomacy Minister Yuli Edelstein said in response to the report.

“The participation of Hamas member Amin Abu Rashid in the flotilla, who is known for fundraising money for Hamas terror operations, is clear proof that this is not a humanitarian flotilla, but a provocation and a terror operation in disguise of a flotilla,” Edelstein said.


David Horowitz at UCSD 5/10/2010. Hosted by Young Americans for Freedom and DHFC

by Admin on May 22, 2011 in Hamas, Hezbollah, Islamo-Fascism, Israel with No comments

This is an old video, but clearly shows the intentions of Hezbollah and Hamas, which the Palestinians have clearly aligned themselves.

A Muslim Jew-hater and supporter of genocide is flushed out by David Horowitz at a speech during “Israel Apartheid Week at the University of California San Diego. Horowitz was hosted by Young Americans for Freedom. Visit the Horowitz Freedom Center Website at www.frontpagemag.com.