FBI's Mueller: Hezbollah Busted in Mexican Smuggling Operati

Paladin · Post by **Paladin** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 5:18 pm

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006 ... shtml?s=ic

"Thursday, March 30, 2006 10:27 p.m. EST
FBI's Mueller: Hezbollah Busted in Mexican Smuggling Operation

FBI Director Robert Mueller said this week that his agency busted a smuggling ring organized by the terrorist group Hezbollah that had operatives cross the Mexican border to carry out possible terrorist attacks inside the U.S.

"This was an occasion in which Hezbollah operatives were assisting others with some association with Hezbollah in coming to the United States,â€? Mueller told a House Appropriations subcommittee during a Tuesday hearing on the FBI's budget.

In a stunning revelation, Mueller admitted that Hezbollah had succeeded in smuggling some of its operatives across the border, telling the House committee: "That was an organization that we dismantled and identified those persons who had been smuggled in. And they have been addressed as well.â€?

Hezbollah was responsible for the single most deadly terrorist attack against the U.S. before 9/11 - the Oct. 1983 bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut, which killed 243 U.S. troops.

In November, an al-Qaida operative who was on the FBI's terrorist watch list was captured near the Mexican border, housed in a Texas jail and turned over to federal agents, according to Rep. John Culberson, R-Texas.

"A confirmed al-Qaida terrorist, an Iraqi national, was held in the Brewster County jail," Rep. Culberson told ABC Radio host Sean Hannity. "He was captured in Mexico. This was within the last six weeks. He was turned over to the FBI.""

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This came out last week and I haven't seen a peep about it in the main stream media.

nitrogen · Post by **nitrogen** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 5:44 pm

Call me paranoid, but I'll believe it when I read about it somewhere that's not a far-right wacko site.

This should be a huge story, why am I not seeing it anywhere else?

HighVelocity · Post by **HighVelocity** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 8:18 pm

What? Hezbollah members aren't welcome in the Guest Worker Program?

We need to lock down the border now.

ElGato · Post by **ElGato** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 9:51 pm

HighVelocity wrote:What? Hezbollah members aren't welcome in the Guest Worker Program?

We need to lock down the border now.

they only do the job's no one else want's.

Photoman · Post by **Photoman** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 10:15 pm

nitrogen wrote:Call me paranoid, but I'll believe it when I read about it somewhere that's not a far-right wacko site.

This should be a huge story, why am I not seeing it anywhere else?

Should be easy enough to confirm Congressional hearing transcripts.

Surely you don't think the far-left wacko major media outlets want something like this on the front page?

I'm sure 9 out of 10 illegal aliens are law abiding...err...non-violent persons. It's that one out of ten that makes me glad I'm armed.

Paladin · Post by **Paladin** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 9:23 am

Of course I'd like to see it in the main stream media too, but I doubt newsmax would make up a bald faced lie about something that could be easily proven one way or the other.

Newsmax could certainly be called 'right wing', but I've never considered it a 'wacko' site.