There are a few new items to report on the rise of Mara Salvatrucha, the brutal illegal alien gang that we’re keeping an eye on here.

- Boston’s city council president is concerned about the gang/terrorist threat posed to tankers in East Boston.

-Somerville, Mass., police nabbed a reputed MS-13 member suspected of stabbing a man through the heart in Washington, D.C.

-A suspcted MS-13 member picked up at the southern border with a Bangladeshi Muslim man is an accused cop killer suspected of killing two police officers in Honduras.

- Law enforcement officials say a slaying this week in Arlington, Va., may be tied to MS-13.

- Meanwhile, this analysis in a Turkish journal says we shouldn’t worry about MS-13/al Qaeda links. Erick Stakelbeck of the Investigative Project disagrees. I’m with him.

Update: The Reporterette dissects the FBI’s official spin pooh-poohing the MS-13/al Qaeda connection.