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Could this be why we didn't face a repeat of Madrid 3/11? From AP, with thanks to Jeffrey Imm:
More than 700 people were arrested on immigration violations and thousands more subjected to FBI interviews in an intense government effort to avert a terrorist attack aimed at disrupting the election.As with past unrealized al Qaeda threats, law-enforcement officials said yesterday they don't know for sure whether any of those arrests or interviews foiled an attack.
"It's very hard to prove a negative," said Michael Garcia, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) official. "We did cases and operations for people we thought posed national security concerns. We didn't arrest anyone who had a bomb."
For example, ICE agents arrested a 23-year-old Pakistani man in late October who had entered the United States illegally through Mexico in 2000 and was working as a fuel-tanker truck driver with access to a major U.S. seaport. The man, who was not further identified, is charged with making false statements about how he entered the country, and remains under investigation for any links to terrorism.
He was one of the 237 persons arrested in October alone on immigration violations, for a total of more than 700 since the enforcement effort began last year, Mr. Garcia said. "It was a broad approach that led us to have a very disruptive effect, we believe," he said.
Posted by Robert at November 8, 2004 7:16 AM
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The Islamic leaders here in America believe it is more wrong to falsely arrest one Muslim than to have 10,000 people die in one terrorist attack. Otherwise we would see more PROACTIVE cooperation and LESS insults, whining, and spin-doctoring.
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at November 8, 2004 10:25 AM
The belief that Muslim 'leaders' and heads of organizations, like CAIR, and that at least 1/3 (probably more) of Muslims in the US (who believe that the so-called 'war on terror' is a war against Islam) look forward to the next major attack with joyous anticipation, is well grounded.
Why would it not be? The widespread glee after 9/11. The triumphant praise of da'wa (the Call to Islam) after 9/11 and conversions. The generally accepted legitimacy of Hamas, an organization that has publically declared the US an enemy; and we should all know Hamas' jihadist tactic by now, etc., etc. Why should we not believe that many, many Muslims, who can justify false condemnation of jihadist violence in the practice of taqiyya, would be absolutely delighted if thousands of Americans perished in a jihadist blood fest?
Not only is such a belief well grounded, it is irresponsible if one rejects the belief for lack of evidence. If there is a 10% a gun is loaded in your house, you must assume it is loaded. The evidence supporting the claim that many Muslims, perhaps close to a majority, would be happy if American was mercilessly attacked and citizens indiscrimately murdered runs far past the 10% mark.
Leaders, educators, policy makers, businesspeople, citizens generally are utterly irresponsible if they do not accept this presumption, that many Muslims and Muslims organizations want attacks to succeed.
And hence the question: Against the background of this assumption, what policies are reasonable, and what policies are not?
at November 8, 2004 3:24 PM
Naturally Muslims with loyalty divided between the Umma and the United States (?) will want an attack to succeed especially if the attack would lead to an Islamic United States and then to the establishment of the Caliphate.
Citizens or inhabitants with divided loyalties are not to be trusted.
at November 9, 2004 5:32 AM
Look if people come here from all over the world, all we ask is don't "kill us"
If we keep open borders we our asking to be killed, get my point?
The 700 people should be thinking this nation and not acting like fools crying about rights most of the people who came here from the worlds so called nation states have no rights, and i may add, A People make up a government and a culture and most nations around the world are nothing but corrupted family business's that is why we must fight to keep this nation from becoming a family business of total corruption.
We must stay loyal to what we are and not what the world is. This world is really stupid with third world non ideas, if we become the sewer Like that world, what do you think will happen to all people? Don't let this government fool you and watch what really happens and close the borders, read Chalmers Johnson.
at November 12, 2004 2:38 AM
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