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A sobering post from Double-Tapper:

Al Qaeda to attack US from Mexico with Bio weapons
U.S. counterterrorism officials have finally authenticated this video (I posted it back in the beginning of April) by an al Qaeda recruiter threatening to smuggle anthrax into the United States via tunnels under the Mexico border.

The video makes clear that al Qaeda is looking to exploit weaknesses in U.S. border security and also is willing to ally itself with white militia groups or other anti-government entities interested in carrying out an attack inside the United States, according to counterterrorism officials interviewed by The Washington Times.

The video first aired by the Arabic news network Al Jazeera in February and later posted to several Web sites, including here, shows Kuwaiti dissident Abdullah al-Nafisi, a veteran recruiter for al Qaeda with close ties to the Taliban, telling a room full of supporters in Bahrain that al Qaeda is casing the U.S. border with Mexico to assess how to send terrorists and weapons into the U.S. "Four pounds of anthrax -- in a suitcase this big -- carried by a fighter through tunnels from Mexico into the U.S. are guaranteed to kill 330,000 Americans within a single hour if it is properly spread in population centers there," the recruiter said. "What a horrifying idea; 9/11 will be small change in comparison. Am I right? There is no need for airplanes, conspiracies, timings and so on. One person, with the courage to carry 4 pounds of anthrax, will go to the White House lawn, and will spread this 'confetti' all over them, and then we'll do these cries of joy. It will turn into a real celebration."

Hezbollah -- an Iran-backed terrorist organization based in Lebanon -- is using routes that Mexican drug lords control to smuggle contraband and people into the United States to finance operations.

In the video, al-Nafisi describes his admiration for Hezbollah and says that al Qaeda has scientists and resources at its disposal.

A bit more:

Over 3500 illegal aliens of middleastern origin are apprehended by the U.S Border Patrol along the Mexican border each year.

According to Todd Benesmen of the San Antonio Times, the human smuggling of middleasterners begins in the Terrorist state of Syria.

And don't forget that in the weeks running up to the invasion, there was a non-stop convoy of trucks running up from Iraq to Syria. Want Saddam's WMDs? Look at Syria. Here is a photo of the contents of one tanker truck that was stopped after the United Nations coalition was in country: Those are bars of gold weighing 15 Kilograms each. And let's not forget the fighter jets buried in the sand:

And yes, I know that these are 1970's vintage MIG-25's. All the good stuff got sent to Syria, all the crappy stuff was buried. It will be tragic but it will be a wakeup call for the Department of Homeland Security and the Customs and Border Patrol. They spend their time (at least in this neck of the woods) hassling taxpaying citizens all the while crap like this is slipping through their fingers. Posted by DaveH at June 16, 2009 6:04 PM