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BORDER  TERROR
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A  congressional probe and the boasts of an al-Qaida leader  indicate    
terrorists have already crossed the border and  infiltrated the United    
States -- and their weapons of  choice may include dirty bombs, says    
Investor's Business  Daily (IBD).

The Times of London reported last month that according to  International    
Atomic Energy Agency figures, smugglers have  been caught 300 times    
since 2002 trying to traffic  radioactive materials that could be used    
to make a dirty  bomb.  Most incidents apparently were in Europe,    
but  considering our porous border, the United States is clearly at     
great risk.

"Suspected terrorists are hiding inside the United States  and they    
got here by sneaking across the Mexican border,"  according to an    
investigative report by KRGV-TV in south  Texas.

o   A five-page section of a new analysis  from House Homeland    
Security Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Michael McCaul     
(R-Texas), is devoted to terrorist  infiltration.

o   It documents the discovery by  law enforcement officials of     
terrorist paraphernalia near the Rio  Grande.

o   The McCaul report found that hundreds  of illegal aliens from     
the Middle East were successfully  smuggled over the border     
into the U.S., including members of the  terrorist organization     
Hezbollah.

o   The FBI reports that citizens from nations with an  al-Qaida    
presence are  learning Spanish and changing their names to make     
them Hispanic-sounding in order to pose  as Latin Americans and     
cross the border more  easily.

o   Hugo Chavez's regime in Caracas has  even provided identity     
documents to nationals of countries  that support terrorists;     
several Pakistanis recently were caught  at the border with    
such fraudulent Venezuelan papers, the report noted.

Federal law  enforcement authorities estimate that only between 10     
percent and 30 percent of illegal aliens get caught crossing  the    
border.  Can there be any greater priority for  Homeland Security    
in America than full control of who gets  into this country?

Source: Editorial, "Border Terror," Investor's  Business    
Daily, November 7, 2006.


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