Militant Islam Monitor > Articles > Terrorists and explosives smuggled over Mexican border - dirty bomb fears raised Terrorists and explosives smuggled over Mexican border - dirty bomb fears raisedMay 19, 2006 Texas Border - Scene Of Terrorist Infiltration - Fuels Concerns Over Dirty Bomb May 19, 2006 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - A shocking report by Texas television news station 5 - KRGV - details widespread penetration of the border between Texas and Mexico by suspected terrorists.
Fred Burton a former federal counter-terror expert - now with anti-terror research group Stratfor - is working to track terrorist groups. He states:
"We do have a national security concern here..there has been intelligence out there that al-Qaeda has looked at that...the chaos on the border...looked at the vulnerablities." Sigifredo Gonzalez the Sheriff of Zapata County has been following the developments and is convinced that a dirty bomb could easily be smuggled across the border, suggesting that if, "people can smuggle three thousand pounds of dope in here," there is no barrier to smuggling a large explosive device in a similar manner. Ominously, 51 suspected terrorists, hailing from the countries of Iran, Iraq, Syria, Egypt and Pakistan were arrested crossing the border in 2005. |