Terrorists don’t stop at the Rio Grande
Ok, all you open-borders Pollyannas on both the left and right. Here is yet another example of terrorists traipsing across our southern border that you will no doubt ignore.
Meet Farida Goolam Mohamed Ahmed. Federal News Radio reports:
She was stopped at McAllen Miller International Airport on July 19 headed to New York.
Eddie Flores of the U.S. Border Patrol office in McAllen, Texas tells FederalNewsRadio.com that a review of her papers raised some concerns.
“In looking at her documents, they did not find any entry documents in her passport where she was legally admitted into the United States,” says Flores.
Ahmed produced a South African passport to the agents with four pages torn out, and with no U.S. entry stamps. Ahmed reportedly later confessed to investigators that she entered the country illegally by crossing the Rio Grande River. Ahmed was carrying travel itineraries showing a July 8 flight from Johannesburg, South Africa to London. Six days later, Ahmed traveled from London to Mexico City before attempting to travel from McAllen to New York.
Government sources tell FederalNewsRadio.com that capturing this woman could be comparable to the arrest of Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of 9/11. It was revealed in court Tuesday that she was on a watch list and had entered the U.S. possibly as many as 250 times.
Meanwhile, the Tombstone Tumbleweed reports “that a flood of middle-eastern males have been caught entering the country illegally east of Douglas, Arizona. The increased patrols in the Huachuca Mountains area of Cochise County, seems to have diverted the flow of OTM’s, “other than Mexicans” east to the Chiricahua Mountains.” While a Border Patrol information officer publicly denied the reports, another agent told the publication that “the men were suspected to be Iranian or possibly Syrian nationals.”
In justifying his support for a massive amnesty plan that would reward millions of illegal aliens who entered our country as Farida Goolam Mohamed Ahmed did, President Bush has said “family values don’t stop at the Rio Grande.”
Yes, well, neither do the Islamofascists.
Update: While we’re on the subject of suspected female al Qaeda operatives, has anyone seen Aafia Siddiqi? Newsweek reported recently:
[D]ocuments show that while trying to trace a tangled money trail beginning with the Saudi Embassy, [terrorism] investigators soon drew startling connections between a group of Saudi nationals receiving financial support from the embassy and a 34-year-old microbiologist and MIT graduate who officials have since concluded was a U.S. operative for 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed.
The microbiologist, Aafia Siddiqui, a mother of three young children, has since fled the country�most likely to her native Pakistan-and is now wanted for questioning by the FBI. But “suspicious-activity reports” (SARS) filed by Fleet Bank with the U.S. Treasury Department, suggest that Siddiqui and her estranged husband, Dr. Mohammed Amjad Khan, an anesthesiologist, may have been active terror plotters inside the country until as late as the summer of 2002.
The reports show that Fleet Bank investigators discovered that one account used by the Boston-area couple showed repeated debit-card purchases from stores that “specialize in high-tech military equipment and apparel,” including Black Hawk Industries in Chesapeake, Va., and Brigade Quartermasters in Georgia. (Black Hawk’s Web site, advertises grips, mounts and parts for AK-47s and other military-assault rifles as well as highly specialized combat clothing, including vests designed for bomb disposal.)
Fleet accounts associated with the couple also showed “major purchases” from U.S. airlines and hotels in Pittsburgh and North Carolina as well as an $8,000 international wire transfer on Dec. 21, 2001, to Habib Bank Ltd., a big Pakistani financial institution that has long been scrutinized by U.S. intelligence officials monitoring terrorist money flows.
NEWSWEEK first reported, in a June 23, 2003, cover story, that the FBI had identified Siddiqui and Khan as suspected Al Qaeda agents. Internal FBI documents showed that, after his capture in March 2003, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed told U.S. interrogators that Siddiqui was supposed to support “other AQ operatives as they entered the United States.” Agents also found evidence that she had rented a post-office box to help another Baltimore-based Al Qaeda contact who had been assigned by Khalid Shaikh Mohammed to blow up underground gasoline-storage tanks. Bureau documents also stated that Khan, Siddiqui’s husband, had purchased body armor, night-vision goggles and a variety of military manuals that were supposed to be sent to Pakistan.
Update: Must-read analysis on Power Line from John H., who makes an Arizona open-borders connection. See also “Borderline Insanity” from Bill Hobbs,
and DANEgerus, who comments: “Nice to know we can get anyone on the “watch list” crossing over from Mexico 1 in every 250 times… or 1/4 of a percent.”
Update: Reader Sally Vee points to this story in the McAllen Monitor, which reports that the ACLU has already leapt to Ahmed’s aid. And reader bdfaith points to this Arizona Republic article on terrorists traveling on stolen South African passports:
Al-Qaida militants and other terrorists traveling through Europe have obtained South African passports, and authorities believe they got them from crime syndicates operating inside the government agency that issues the documents.
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I’m sure she traveled all that way to get a $0.38 an hour job picking vegetables. Rather than arresting her, we should put her on the fast track to citizenship so she can vote for John Kerry in November.
Noble
There is no fast track to voting any more. The new requirements are the ability to read a stop sign and identify President Bush in a line up picture. Once a person has mastered these two things they are immediately registered democrats. Requirements are different for the dead and household animals.
Having grown up and always lived in Texas I can honestly say that illegal Mexicans have never bothered me one little bit. As a general rule they really are looking for $.38 an hour vegetable picking jobs (any amount of money is better than the none they can earn in Mexico.) However, when the people slipping across our southern border are from nations which breed terrorists, it is time to get serious about stopping the inflow.
911 hijackers were on Maui in early September 2001
A friend of mine is a (retired) senior pursor for United Airlines.
She worked 767’s
On 9-4-2001, she noted five very peculiar passengers on board
her flight from Kahului, Maui to LAX. There were 3 in the front
and two in the back. Two of the first-class passengers were
very grumpy and quiet at the beginning, and the 3rd first-class
passenger seemed ‘asleep’. The pursor approached the man
who appeared to be asleep, asked him if he’d like the paper,
and the man gruffly replied “I’m Asleep!”, and then crossed
his arms and squinted his eyes back shut.
After the plane leveled out, the pursor went into the
cockpit and said this to the pilot: “I think we may have
a hijacker on board”. They just had that kind of look.
About two hours into the flight, there was an “ALL HANDS”
call on the rear telephone setup in the main cabin. This
type of call indicates a medical or other emergency, and
requires that all free crewmembers go to the site of
the alarm and help out. This happened TWICE during
the flight. The first time it happened, the flight pursor
noticed that the two grumpy, quiet men in first class
suddenly burst into loud laughter.
Later, when she was interviewed by the FBI, she
positively ID’ed Mr. Atta as one of the passengers.
THESE PEOPLE WERE PRACTICING ON HER FLIGHT.
SEVEN DAYS LATER THEY FLEW THE SAME TYPE
OF PLANE INTO THE WTC.
Morever, they ORIGINATED ON Maui, they were
not flying through from some other location. It is
a matter of fact that Osama Bin Laden was a guest
at the Four Seasons Hotel in Wailea, Maui, back in
the early 90’s, and was looking at real estate in the
area.
This may indicate that Al Quaida actually has a
’safe’ house on Maui.
No one has ever mentioned the Maui connection
before, and I hope someone does. Maybe those
bastards are still on the island.
Please tell a Friend!
Chip,
President Bush in a line up? Be careful not to give those folks in Boston any ideas. On second thought, knowing that crowd, I’m sure it’s already been suggested.
Michelle, congratulations on putting a cool blog together……you da gal!
Oh, and the illegal information is most welcome here in Tucson.
“While a Border Patrol information officer publicly denied the reports, another agent told the publication that “the men were suspected to be Iranian or possibly Syrian nationals.”"
No doubt they were just band members trying to get to their latest gig.
Michelle I love your blog!
Even before you had posted on the Rio Grande crossing terrorists I had a line in my blog about how you would do the story better than I would and thats exactly what you did! Thanks for helping defend this country! And thanks for driving that story on Anne Jacobsen, I kept at it for some time with Donald Sensing but you exposed the weakness in the system.
The story about the Purser is electric. Can we hear more? email me at fleetdefender@cox.net
Pierre
When the field is striped for soccer, only a fool continues to play American football.
Nice to know we can get anyone on the “watch list” crossing over from Mexico 1 in every 250 times… or 1/4 of a percent.
Remarkably, although I do appreciate the July 26th memorial for Brenda McCormick (who was willing to face jail for her convictions), I find the rest of your blog rather nit-picky and petty.
So in regards to your “neighborhood terror alerts”: you’re right, I will probably ignore most of your extremist Fox-style sensationalism and look for more thought-provoking news updates elsewhere.
Hey Linsey……don’t let the door hit you in the ass! LLL
Linsey, You can get pre-digested news on ABC/CBS/NBC/CNN/BBC…..
Just remember that you are getting what Jennings / Rather / etc…. bring back up…
Some of us prefer to be able to chew and digest our own food.
You mentioned that Ms. Ahmed was traveling on a South African passport. According to The Arizona Republic (http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/0728terror-southafrica28.html) it isn’t too unusual for al-Qaida to use stolen South African passports. Maybe I’m jumping to conclusions… Just a thought.
Michelle, I couldn’t figure out the Trackback thing on your blog but I wanted to mention that I’ve tried to send some traffic your way at http://inbillsworld.blogspot.com/2004/07/if-you-only-have-time-for-one-more.html.
I’m just getting started, but I’m starting a new blog that might interest some of you… http://vftcenter.blogspot.com
As long as our borders are as porous as
a sieve, we are not only buying
the gun, but the amunition and blindfold.
I am becoming less and less sanguine by
the minute…and see fewer and fewer
American flags flying.
There’s another story about the woman arrested in Texas. It’s at TheMonitor.com (local Rio Grande Valley) newspaper online.
If the story is accurate, Border Patrol held Farida Ahmed for 3.5 days before FBI arrived to interview her.
Ahmed was carrying: 2 suitcases, a purse with documents, cell phone, digital camera, $6,000 U.S. cash plus some British pounds and a S. African Krugerrand gold coin worth $400. She also had phone cards and gambling cards from the Taj Mahal in Atlantic City.
ACLU is on the case already… claiming violations of Ahmed’s civil rights. Last quote is predictably hysterical — John Ashcroft inciting unconstitutional madness, etc..
SEE:
http://www.themonitor.com/SiteProcessor.cfm?Template=/GlobalTemplates/Details.cfm&StoryID=2858&Section=Local
Let’s see illegal entering, a mutilated possibly stolen passport and barred from entry due to her placement on the terrorist watch list…Guess what ACLU she has no constitutional rights to violate
I’ve been harping about this for months [http://1218.blogspot.com/2004/01/new-bill-clinton.html]; here’s a sample:
“Lest you think this is just a jingoistic diatribe, consider the following: last year the United States discovered al Qaeda cells training in Mexico (there are many more scattered throughout South America), and just this month the Mexican foreign minister in Lebanon was fired and jailed after it was discovered that she had been stealing blank Mexican travel documents and supplying them to Islamists in the home of Hezbollah. Can you imagine how blatant you have to be to get fired for corruption in Mexico?”
Jorge Bush refuses to do anything about this, and this is the reason why I still cannot in good faith endorse him.
Sadly the scarcest number of immigration detention beds are for women, as they are such sympathic figures that simply should not be detained – you know, they are just mothers and nurturers, and are among the first to be released and out the door with a promise to appear, you know, to nurture. We need to get over this preconceived notion that women aren’t criminals, or terrorists and should be detained like any other illegal whose identity or intentions we do not know.
Hey, maybe the do-gooder church groups sneaking around the border, providing water and smuggling illegals into town to help them on their way “helped” her seek her better life, too, since no illegal jumping the border is bent on doing harm in the US, only to work…..
Heh. I live in Cochise county – right next to Ft. Huachuca (US Army Intel school). The border patrol is constantly on post rounding up illegals by the dozen – so much that training is periodically disrupted. I find it ironic, a bit, that potential terrorists trapse by the Home of US Army Intelligence nearly every day.
DANE: 1 out of 250 is 0.4%, 2/5 of a percent, not 1/4 of percent.
Sad nonetheless…
Hey, JohnG!
What a great opportunity for live training of the Ground Based Sensor guys! Patch up a dataling to the Border Patrol and round ‘em up.
Sure wish it was that easy…
Hmmm.
As a Conservative I have only one thing to note:
The GOP controls both Houses of Congress and the White House. If terrorists conduct a successful attack inside America and their movements are traced to an over-the-border crossing then the blame will fall squarely on the GOP and Bush.
This state of affairs is so fraught with danger that I’m astonished that the GOP allows it to continue. If there is anything that could potentially destroy the GOP as a viable political party it is this.
How on earth could any GOP candidate, for any office, counter a “these incompetent idiots LET the terrorists enter the country unchallenged” meme?
See this is why all you people who plan to vote for “Dubya” are a bunch of fools!
The Bush administration has done JACK to stop illegal immigration. JACK!! Bush should be booted out of office, Republicans should make a big stink tying his election loss with his assinine policy on immigration, and then the Republican leadership might put someone up there who isn’t a boy-king.