24. Al-Qaida threatening at borders, says Rice.
Then beef up our borders! How many brains does that take to figure out? Stop offering ILLEGAL aliens amnesty!
If the Bush administration KNOWS and ADMITS the leaky borders are a terrorist risk, and that ILLEGALS are especially dangerous - why are they doing the opposite of what is necessary to fix the problem? It's almost as if they want a terror problem to continue. Then they can have more targets for war and more excuses to take rights away from American citizens.
BTW, how can al-Qaida still be a problem? Haven't we been fighting this war on terror for some four years now? And we haven't even halted terror enemy #1 (AKA #9-11)?
http://wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=43240
HOMELAND INSECURITY
Al-Qaida threatening at borders, says Rice
Terrorists determined to infiltrate into U.S. through Mexico, Canada
March 10, 2005
© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com
Al-Qaida and other terrorist groups are determined to infiltrate into the United States by using the porous and insecure borders of both Canada and Mexico, said Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on her first trip south of the border since assuming her new post.
Rice today echoed warnings made by FBI Director Robert Mueller to a congressional panel earlier this week about the continuing threat al-Qaida poses at the borders.
"Indeed we have from time to time had reports about al-Qaida trying to use our southern border but also trying to use our northern border," Rice told reporters. "There is no secret that al-Qaida will try to get into this country and into other countries by any means they possibly can."
She also suggested she believes al-Qaida has been successful in the past at penetrating the borders. "That's how they managed to do it before and they will do everything that they can to cross the borders," she said.
Recent intelligence from current investigations, detentions and other sources suggests that al-Qaida has considered using the Southwest border to infiltrate the United States, according to testimony from a top Homeland Security Department official last month before the Senate Intelligence Committee.
"Several al-Qaida leaders believe operatives can pay their way into the country through Mexico, and also believe illegal entry is more advantageous than legal entry for operational security reasons," James Loy, deputy secretary at the time, said in his testimony.
Rice said progress has been made in securing the border since Sept. 11, 2001. But she also said the United States is obligated to alert its citizens of concerns.
While Rice made no mention of any specific efforts to enlist the help of the Mexican government in deterring terrorists, she did announce on her one-day trip to meet with President Vicente Fox and Derbez that the two countries had settled a decades-old, cross-water debt.
Mexico will transfer enough water to the United States to cover a debt that Texas has claimed that Mexico has owed under a 1944 treaty. That water-sharing pact requires Mexico to send the United States an average of 350,000 acre-feet of water annually from six Rio Grande tributaries. The United States in return must send Mexico 1.5 million acre feet from the Colorado River.
TG: Oh, that's a good trade. To get what we're owed, we must give up four times that amount.
Rice also was announcing a $10 million grant to support the expansion of a Mexican program that provides citizens with banking services and small business loans.
TG: Giving Mexico $10 million of our tax dollars is good for America in what way?
If the Bush administration KNOWS and ADMITS the leaky borders are a terrorist risk, and that ILLEGALS are especially dangerous - why are they doing the opposite of what is necessary to fix the problem? It's almost as if they want a terror problem to continue. Then they can have more targets for war and more excuses to take rights away from American citizens.
BTW, how can al-Qaida still be a problem? Haven't we been fighting this war on terror for some four years now? And we haven't even halted terror enemy #1 (AKA #9-11)?
http://wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=43240
HOMELAND INSECURITY
Al-Qaida threatening at borders, says Rice
Terrorists determined to infiltrate into U.S. through Mexico, Canada
March 10, 2005
© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com
Al-Qaida and other terrorist groups are determined to infiltrate into the United States by using the porous and insecure borders of both Canada and Mexico, said Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on her first trip south of the border since assuming her new post.
Rice today echoed warnings made by FBI Director Robert Mueller to a congressional panel earlier this week about the continuing threat al-Qaida poses at the borders.
"Indeed we have from time to time had reports about al-Qaida trying to use our southern border but also trying to use our northern border," Rice told reporters. "There is no secret that al-Qaida will try to get into this country and into other countries by any means they possibly can."
She also suggested she believes al-Qaida has been successful in the past at penetrating the borders. "That's how they managed to do it before and they will do everything that they can to cross the borders," she said.
Recent intelligence from current investigations, detentions and other sources suggests that al-Qaida has considered using the Southwest border to infiltrate the United States, according to testimony from a top Homeland Security Department official last month before the Senate Intelligence Committee.
"Several al-Qaida leaders believe operatives can pay their way into the country through Mexico, and also believe illegal entry is more advantageous than legal entry for operational security reasons," James Loy, deputy secretary at the time, said in his testimony.
Rice said progress has been made in securing the border since Sept. 11, 2001. But she also said the United States is obligated to alert its citizens of concerns.
While Rice made no mention of any specific efforts to enlist the help of the Mexican government in deterring terrorists, she did announce on her one-day trip to meet with President Vicente Fox and Derbez that the two countries had settled a decades-old, cross-water debt.
Mexico will transfer enough water to the United States to cover a debt that Texas has claimed that Mexico has owed under a 1944 treaty. That water-sharing pact requires Mexico to send the United States an average of 350,000 acre-feet of water annually from six Rio Grande tributaries. The United States in return must send Mexico 1.5 million acre feet from the Colorado River.
TG: Oh, that's a good trade. To get what we're owed, we must give up four times that amount.
Rice also was announcing a $10 million grant to support the expansion of a Mexican program that provides citizens with banking services and small business loans.
TG: Giving Mexico $10 million of our tax dollars is good for America in what way?
posted by T.G. at 6:26 PM
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