"Islam's whereabouts are now unknown after he was given a ``notice to appear'' warrant that requires him to face an immigration judge within six months."

I'm sure this poor Muslim was shook up enough by this "notice to appear" that he will dare not miss this appointment.

I can't help but say it people -- We deserve what we get. We still don't have our priorties right. INS? what a joke....

Posted by: Kemaste at January 13, 2005 5:27 AM

This is a reprint of an excellent article I read on this story-- dated Sept.28,2004

Al Qaeda seeks tie to local gangs

By Jerry Seper
THE WASHINGTON TIMES

A top al Qaeda lieutenant has met with leaders of a violent Salvadoran criminal gang with roots in Mexico and the United States — including a stronghold in the Washington area — in an effort by the terrorist network to seek help infiltrating the U.S.-Mexico border, law enforcement authorities said. Adnan G. El Shukrijumah, a key al Qaeda cell leader for whom the U.S. government has offered a $5 million reward, was spotted in July in Honduras meeting with leaders of El Salvador's notorious Mara Salvatrucha gang, which immigration officials said has smuggled hundreds of Central and South Americans — mostly gang members — into the United States. Although they are actively involved in alien, drug and weapons smuggling, Mara Salvatrucha members in America also have been tied to numerous killings, robberies, burglaries, carjackings, extortions, rapes and aggravated assaults — including at least seven killings in Virginia and a machete attack on a 16-year-old in Alexandria that severely mutilated his hands. The Salvadoran gang, known to law enforcement authorities as MS-13 because many members identify themselves with tattoos of the number 13, is thought to have established a major smuggling center in Matamoros, Mexico, just south of Brownsville, Texas, from where it has arranged to bring illegal aliens from countries other than Mexico into the United States. Authorities said al Qaeda terrorists hope to take advantage of a lack of detention space within the Department of Homeland Security that has forced immigration officials to release non-Mexican illegal aliens back into the United States, rather than return them to their home countries. Less than 15 percent of those released appear for immigration hearings. Nearly 60,000 illegal aliens designated as other-than-Mexican, or OTMs, were detained last year along the U.S.-Mexico border.

El Shukrijumah, born in Saudi Arabia but thought to be a Yemen national, was spotted in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, in July, having crossed the border illegally from Nicaragua after a stay in Panama. U.S. authorities said al Qaeda operatives have been in Tegucigalpa planning attacks against British, Spanish and U.S. embassies. Known to carry passports from Saudi Arabia, Trinidad, Guyana and Canada, El Shukrijumah had sought meetings with the Mara Salvatrucha gang leaders who control alien-smuggling routes through Mexico and into the United States. El Shukrijumah, 29, who authorities said was in Canada last year looking for nuclear material for a so-called "dirty bomb" and reportedly has family members in Guyana, was named in a March 2003 material-witness arrest warrant by federal prosecutors in Northern Virginia, where U.S. Attorney Paul J. McNulty said he is sought in connection with potential terrorist threats against the United States. A former southern Florida resident and pilot thought to have helped plan the September 11 attacks, El Shukrijumah was among seven suspected al Qaeda operatives identified in May by Attorney General John Ashcroft as being involved in plans to strike new targets in the United States. Citing "credible intelligence from multiple sources," Mr. Ashcroft said at the time that El Shukrijumah posed "a clear and present danger to America." In August, an FBI alert described him as "armed and dangerous" and a major threat to homeland security. Earlier this month, Mr. Ashcroft confirmed that U.S. border agents and inspectors had ramped up efforts to find El Shukrijumah amid reports that the al Qaeda leader was thought to be seeking entry routes into the United States along the U.S.-Mexico border. Mr. Ashcroft noted that increased enforcement efforts were under way in the wake of a rise of arrests of border jumpers from Afghanistan, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Pakistan, the Philippines, Saudi Arabia and Syria. Authorities said Mara Salvatrucha gang members moved into the Los Angeles area in the 1980s and developed a reputation for being organized and extremely violent. The gang since has expanded into the Washington area, including Virginia and Maryland, and into Oregon, Alaska, Texas, Nevada, Utah, Oklahoma, Illinois, Michigan, New York, Georgia and Florida. More than 3,000 Mara Salvatrucha gang members are thought to be in the Washington area, with a major operation in Northern Virginia. Other gang centers, authorities said, include Montgomery and Prince George's counties and the Hispanic neighborhoods of Washington. Mr. McNulty, whose office has prosecuted Mara Salvatrucha gang members, has described the organization as the "gang of greatest interest" to law enforcement authorities. He said gang members are recruited predominantly from Hispanic communities and typically among juveniles, some as young as 13. Recruits are "jumped" into the gang by being beaten by members while others count to 13, he said. Gang rules, he said, are indoctrinated into new recruits and ruthlessly enforced. Those who cooperate with law enforcement are given the "green light," he said, meaning that the gang had approved their killing. In March, the Los Angeles City Attorney's Office filed an injunction against Mara Salvatrucha, charging that the gang's criminal activity constituted a "public nuisance" based on the number of killings, robberies and drug crimes. The injunction requires gang members, under public nuisance statutes, to follow curfew rules and regulations and prohibits them from associating, driving or appearing together in designated areas of the city.

Posted by: Mackie at January 13, 2005 10:27 AM

Maybe the reason why Fakrhul Islam was released is to allow the FBI and Homeland Security to track him and see who he meets up with exposing other cell members.Fakrul Islam becomes a useful idiot leading to net bigger fish and exposing the terrorist cell infrastruccture within the U.S..I hope the FBI and Homeland Security is doing this.

Posted by: RED at January 13, 2005 11:30 AM

Red:

I couldn`t agree with you more, those where my first thoughts also. The FBI has to have some degree of evidence to hold this person as well. I`m absolutly convinced that they are watching his every move and checking the contacts he makes.

Posted by: Mackie at January 13, 2005 11:48 AM

It's time to get serious and stop feeling sorry. America must stand tall and within reason, use all means to stop Islamic terrorism. Do the terrorists feel sorry for any westerner they behead? Islamic terrorist know how to use facts against the world and would have the world believe the twisted lies coming from their mouths. Reality is not meant to be altered.

Posted by: flameon1 at January 13, 2005 11:55 AM

I cant believe they turned that guy loose.There's not too many reasons for an Arab to be crossing the border illeagaly other than terrorism.Why didn't they just deport him to his country of origin if they had nothing on him.Isn't that what we do with Mexican illeagals?

Put the shoe on the other foot.If a white guy sneaks across the border into Mexico is he on vacation?Looking for work?Of couse not,he's probably running from the law or much worse.

JLP

Posted by: John Lee Pedimore at January 13, 2005 12:15 PM

"Van Pelt did not know what Islam’s purpose in the United States was..."

Heh. What *is* Islam’s purpose in the United States? A lot of people would like to know that.

Posted by: MDCLXVI at January 13, 2005 1:06 PM

The United States has serious problems in Latin America.
David Horowitz detailed the nexus between the Left and Islamic extremists in the United States in "Unholy Alliance". What we have in Latin America is this same phenomenon on an international scale. The problems are largely thus:
1) Leftist governments such as Hugo Chavez's in Venezuela who sympathize with Islamic extremists' anti-Americanism. Recent elections in the region have empowered even more of these governments, who have shown an affinity towards the US and its anti-terrorism initiatives. One of these countries is Brazil:

http://www.tfp.org/lulawatch/v2_feb13/2.html

2) Large areas in the region are essentially anarchic, occupied by guerrillas, gangsters and other criminal organizations. In Colombia alone, FARC and ELN narco-terrorists occupy an area the size of Switzerland, and terrorists from the Middle East and elsewhere have been spotted there by Colombian security forces. Recently, three IRA-linked men were convicted of up to 17 1/2 years in prison for training FARC rebels in terrorist tactics.

Here is an excellent article on Middle Eastern Terrorists in the infamous Tri-Border Area:

From the US Army Professional Writing Collection, "Terrorist Threat in the Tri-Border Area: Myth or Reality?"

The TBA and Global Terrorism

The TBA, South America's busiest contraband and smuggling center, is home to a large, active Arab and Muslim community consisting of a Shi'a majority, a Sunni minority, and a small population of Christians who emigrated from Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, and the Palestinian territories about 50 years ago. Most of these Arab immigrants are involved in commerce in Ciudad del Este but live in Foz do Iguacu on the Brazilian side of the Iguacu River.

According to international terrorism expert John Price, "The economy of Ciudad del Este is dominated by illegal activity focused on smuggling contraband products, pirating software and music, and money laundering of cocaine production revenue."1 Even though it has a population of only 300,000, Ciudad del Este has approximately 55 different banks and foreign exchange shops. The United States estimates that $6 billion a year in illegal funds are laundered there, an amount equivalent to 50 percent of the official gross domestic product of Paraguay. Carlos Altemberger, chief of Paraguay's antiterrorist unit, says terrorists partly finance their operations by remitting dollars from Ciudad del Este to the Middle East..."

http://www.army.mil/professionalwriting/volumes/volume3/january_2005/1_05_4.html

Posted by: Mike at January 13, 2005 2:07 PM

Posted by: Mackie at January 13, 2005 10:27 AM

I think they had a stroy about this Gang in a mall useing their Machites in a Mall in Va. Can't find the art. if you could look for it please??

Think it was the same paper??

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http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=16487
Homeland Insecurity: 2004 in Review
By Michelle Malkin
Townhall.com | December 31, 2004
2004 was a good year for terrorists, violent gang members, law-breakers and fraud artists seeking safe haven in America. Let's reminisce:
The rise of MS-13 . The savage El Salvador-based gang, Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13), has now penetrated more than a dozen states. In May, a Fairfax, Va., teenager had his fingers chopped off in an MS-13 machete attack. In November, Washington, D.C.-area police received warning that MS-13 is plotting to ambush and kill them when they respond to service calls. Active in alien, drug and weapons smuggling, MS-13 members in America have been tied to numerous killings, robberies, carjackings, extortions and rapes. The gang has also been linked to efforts to help al Qaeda infiltrate the U.S.-Mexico border.
The path of least resistance . Border Patrol officers and local investigative journalists in the Southwest reported on increasing numbers of Middle Eastern males entering illegally from Mexico. Muslim prayer books and Arabic diaries were discovered on "Terrorist Alley" in southern Arizona. Suspected al Qaeda operative Adnan Shukrijumah, a fugitive Saudi pilot who reportedly met with MS-13 earlier this year, is believed to be in Mexico.
In April, a suspected al Qaeda agent arrested in Queens, N.Y., revealed a scheme to smuggle terrorists across the U.S.-Mexico border. In July, two alert Border Patrol agents apprehended Farida Goolam Mohamed Ahmed at McAllen (Texas) airport. She was carrying an altered South African passport, muddy jeans and dirty shoes. She confessed to having entered the country illegally by crossing the Rio Grande River. Court documents showed that she was on a government watch list and had entered the United States up to 250 times.
Upon news of Ahmed's arrest, intelligence experts reported that suspected terror agents are acquiring passports from South Africa and other non-suspect countries; flying to the al Qaeda-coddling "tri-border area" in South America; learning Spanish; traveling to Mexico; and doing the backstroke into America. Lawmakers in Texas warned that the feds are arresting and then releasing thousands of other suspected terrorists classified as "Other Than Mexicans" because of lack of jail space.
President Bush said "family values don't stop at the Rio Grande." I repeat: Neither do the Islamofascists.
Bungling Washington bureaucrats . In the skies, federal air marshals continue to be hampered by director Thomas Quinn's moronic "professional" dress code (no athletic socks or jeans allowed). Although he no longer oversees transportation security, underperformin' Norman Mineta remains in charge of the Department of Transportation, where he maintains an absolutist opposition to homeland defense profiling. And kowtowing to civil liberties Chicken Littles and Muslim lobbyists, the Bush administration canceled the Computer Assisted Passenger Prescreening System out of fear of privacy and discrimination lawsuits.
In July, the Department of Homeland Security rebuked Border Patrol agents in Southern California for conducting interior enforcement sweeps because they did not bow down to the "sensitivities" of open-borders radicals. In September, DHS Border Security Undersecretary Asa Hutchinson stated publicly that it's "not realistic" for his own officers to try to do their jobs and deport law-breakers.
Morale among rank-and-file enforcement officers has plummeted. The botched Bernie Kerik DHS nomination and the refusal of the Bush administration to support common-sense immigration enforcement and secure identity measures in the "intelligence reform" bill (which ended up containing more non-intelligence than intelligence provisions) didn't help.
Amnesty, shamnesty . The year ended as it began, with President Bush dangling his abominable proposal to grant a mass governmental pardon to millions of illegal alien workers and their employers. First floated in January, the White House also pushed through a Social Security "totalization" program with Mexico, which will dispense billions of dollars to illegal alien workers who used counterfeit Social Security cards and stolen numbers to secure illegal jobs.
Announcement of the Bush plan led to a spike in illegal alien apprehensions at the border during the first three months of 2004 -- 25 percent higher compared with last year. Those are just the ones who got caught. T.J. Bonner, president of the National Border Patrol Council, told the Washington Times in April: "People were coming up to our agents and saying, 'Where do we sign up for that guest-worker program, or that amnesty?' Word travels like wildfire down there."
And around the world. The word is we're open. Wide open. What a way to ring in the new year

Thanks to Mike!!

Posted by: Catherine at January 13, 2005 2:12 PM

http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=63094
Arrested MS-13 member wanted in police slayings
By Michele McPhee
Wednesday, January 12, 2005
The reputed MS-13 gang member arrested for sneaking into Texas illegally alongside a Bangladeshi Muslim last month is an accused cop killer suspected of killing two police officers in Honduras, the Herald has learned.
Last week, the Herald reported that the Islamic man, Fakrhul Islam, and alleged MS-13 member Frankie Sanchez-Solorzano, 21, were arrested along with 11 others on Dec. 4 for entering the country illegally by wading across the Rio Grande.
The arrests of the two men increased concerns that the brutal gang, Mara Salvatruca - considered terrorists in Central America - will take money from the highest bidder, including Islamic fundamentalists
Attorney General John Ashcroft has publicly said a high-ranking al-Qaeda leader, Adnan El-Shukrijumah, has offered top dollar to infiltrate the United States.
FBI agents and investigators assigned to the Homeland Security Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency interviewed Islam, whose age was unknown, but he was released after the investigation determined he was ``not a terrorist,'' Manny Van Pelt, spokesman for ICE, said yesterday.
Islam's whereabouts are now unknown after he was given a ``notice to appear'' warrant that requires him to face an immigration judge within six months.
Van Pelt did not know what Islam's purpose in the United States was, or where he was going.
Law enforcement sources said Sanchez-Solorzano, who was identified as an MS-13 member via the gang's tattoos on his body, is wanted for killing two cops in his native Honduras. He is being detained by ICE, Van Pelt said.
Locally, Boston police are not taking any chances with the gang, whose members have been charged with a slew of machete attacks, rapes and armed robberies across the North Shore.
In East Boston, police have stepped up efforts to sweep MS-13 out of Maverick Square, where gang members congregate.

http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=62313

This is why we have to shut our borders to the illegals ......

America WAKE UP!!!

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Posted by: Catherine at January 13, 2005 2:18 PM

The conference of bishops of the catholic Church have begun a plan to prevent and cure the people that go in in "maras"( the name of these organisations), and I add that USA, and other countries have to learn that only ending with the corruption in Iberian America the problem has solutions, greetings

Posted by: Franze at January 13, 2005 4:44 PM

Posted by: Franze at January 13, 2005 04:44 PM

YES THERE IS!!

Called Shoot tresspassers on sight!!

Going to get Ugly stay Strong America!!

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Posted by: Catherine at January 13, 2005 5:58 PM