J.T
08-17-2011, 01:58 PM
Islamic terrorist groups are setting up shop in Mexico and forming alarming ties with the country's brutal drug cartels, according to a 2010 internal memo from the Tucson Police Department.The memo (http://info.publicintelligence.net/AZ-Hezbollah.pdf), leaked by the hacker group LulzSec as part of its Arizona Department of Public Safety hack (http://www.businessinsider.com/lulzsec-leaks-hacks-arizona-law-enforcement-documents-2011-6), warns that Hezbollah has established operations — and a large arms stockpile — in Mexico.
As evidence, it points to the 2010 Tijuana arrest of Hezbollah militant Jameel Nasr, who was allegedly tasked with establishing a Hezbollah network (http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/mexico-thwarts-hezbollah-bid-to-set-up-south-american-network-1.300360) in Mexico and South America. The memo also recalls the April 2009 arrest of Jamal Yousef in New York, which exposed a huge cache of assault rifles, hand grenades, explosives and anti-tank munitions. According to Yousef, the weapons were stored in Mexico after being smuggled from Iraq by members of Hezbollah.
http://www.businessinsider.com/lulzsec-leak-reveals-terrifying-ties-between-hezbollah-and-mexicos-drug-cartels-2011-7
From the report:
Due to the U.S.’ political and financial support of Israel, Hezbollah regards our nation as a viable target.
The police document says there is a “strong suspicion” that car bombs set off by the drug lords last summer were created with the help of Hezbollah. On June 23 of last year, Rep. Sue Myrick said that a senior Mexican military officer informed her that Hezbollah was giving explosives training to members of the drug cartels. “This might lead to Israel-like car bombings of Mexican/USA border personnel or National Guard units in the border regions,” her letter (http://myrick.house.gov/index.cfm?sectionid=22&itemid=558) to the Department of Homeland Security cautioned. Myrick’s warning was prescient. In the first week of July 2010, a car bomb killed (http://www.ktsm.com/war-on-drugs/four-dead-in-juarez-bombing) four people in Ciudad Juarez that had “Hezbollah-like sophistication.” Car bombs have become part of the drug war since then.
http://frontpagemag.com/2011/07/13/hezbollah-sets-up-shop-in-mexico/
Hezbollah isn’t the only terrorist organization salivating at the instability in Mexico. In February 2010, Anthony Joseph Tracy was arrested (http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/local/Feds-can_t-find-270-Somalis-they-say-Va_-man-illegally-helped-come-to-U_S_-84799152.html) in Virginia for his links to al-Shabaab, an al-Qaeda affiliate in Somalia. He is thought to have smuggled at least 270 Somalis into the U.S. through Mexico, few of which have been located or even identified. It is very likely that a number of these Somalis are al-Shabaab operatives, given Tracy’s involvement with the terrorist group. Mexico has arrested and released (http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/world/Somalis-with-terrorist-links-feared-headed-to-U_S_-border-89954247.html) members of al-Shabaab on their way to the U.S. before.
Another member of a Somali terrorist network was arrested in San Antonio. He admitted (http://www.investigativeproject.org/2716/prosecutors-somali-smuggled-jihadists-into-us) that he is a member of the al-Ittihad al-Islami terrorist group and also works with al-Barakat.
"Their operators are far more skilled … they are the equals of Russians, Chinese or Cubans," he said. "I consider Hezbollah much more dangerous in that sense because of strategic thinking; they think more long-term."Hezbolah has operated in South America for decades and then Central America, along with their sometime rival, sometime ally Hamas.Now, the group is blending into Shi'a Muslim communities in Mexico, including Tijuana. Other pockets along the U.S.-Mexico border region remain largely unidentified as U.S. intelligence agencies are focused on the drug trade."They have had clandestine training in how to live in foreign hostile territories," the agent said.
http://www.10news.com/news/27780427/detail.html
http://frontpagemag.com/2011/07/13/hezbollah-sets-up-shop-in-mexico/2/
As evidence, it points to the 2010 Tijuana arrest of Hezbollah militant Jameel Nasr, who was allegedly tasked with establishing a Hezbollah network (http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/mexico-thwarts-hezbollah-bid-to-set-up-south-american-network-1.300360) in Mexico and South America. The memo also recalls the April 2009 arrest of Jamal Yousef in New York, which exposed a huge cache of assault rifles, hand grenades, explosives and anti-tank munitions. According to Yousef, the weapons were stored in Mexico after being smuggled from Iraq by members of Hezbollah.
http://www.businessinsider.com/lulzsec-leak-reveals-terrifying-ties-between-hezbollah-and-mexicos-drug-cartels-2011-7
From the report:
Due to the U.S.’ political and financial support of Israel, Hezbollah regards our nation as a viable target.
The police document says there is a “strong suspicion” that car bombs set off by the drug lords last summer were created with the help of Hezbollah. On June 23 of last year, Rep. Sue Myrick said that a senior Mexican military officer informed her that Hezbollah was giving explosives training to members of the drug cartels. “This might lead to Israel-like car bombings of Mexican/USA border personnel or National Guard units in the border regions,” her letter (http://myrick.house.gov/index.cfm?sectionid=22&itemid=558) to the Department of Homeland Security cautioned. Myrick’s warning was prescient. In the first week of July 2010, a car bomb killed (http://www.ktsm.com/war-on-drugs/four-dead-in-juarez-bombing) four people in Ciudad Juarez that had “Hezbollah-like sophistication.” Car bombs have become part of the drug war since then.
http://frontpagemag.com/2011/07/13/hezbollah-sets-up-shop-in-mexico/
Hezbollah isn’t the only terrorist organization salivating at the instability in Mexico. In February 2010, Anthony Joseph Tracy was arrested (http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/local/Feds-can_t-find-270-Somalis-they-say-Va_-man-illegally-helped-come-to-U_S_-84799152.html) in Virginia for his links to al-Shabaab, an al-Qaeda affiliate in Somalia. He is thought to have smuggled at least 270 Somalis into the U.S. through Mexico, few of which have been located or even identified. It is very likely that a number of these Somalis are al-Shabaab operatives, given Tracy’s involvement with the terrorist group. Mexico has arrested and released (http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/world/Somalis-with-terrorist-links-feared-headed-to-U_S_-border-89954247.html) members of al-Shabaab on their way to the U.S. before.
Another member of a Somali terrorist network was arrested in San Antonio. He admitted (http://www.investigativeproject.org/2716/prosecutors-somali-smuggled-jihadists-into-us) that he is a member of the al-Ittihad al-Islami terrorist group and also works with al-Barakat.
"Their operators are far more skilled … they are the equals of Russians, Chinese or Cubans," he said. "I consider Hezbollah much more dangerous in that sense because of strategic thinking; they think more long-term."Hezbolah has operated in South America for decades and then Central America, along with their sometime rival, sometime ally Hamas.Now, the group is blending into Shi'a Muslim communities in Mexico, including Tijuana. Other pockets along the U.S.-Mexico border region remain largely unidentified as U.S. intelligence agencies are focused on the drug trade."They have had clandestine training in how to live in foreign hostile territories," the agent said.
http://www.10news.com/news/27780427/detail.html
http://frontpagemag.com/2011/07/13/hezbollah-sets-up-shop-in-mexico/2/