Dr.
Viviane S. Stein
Iran is believed providing at
least some of the money for this
recruiting and training program.
The training camps are teaching
hit and run gorilla technique's.
Cells of Foreign Terrorist
Organizations (FTOs) have sent
their seasoned veterans to
oversee the training of the new
troops and to direct the war
against the Mexican government
on behalf of the Mexican Cartels.
Extremist cells
tied to Hizballah, Islamic
Jihad, and al Qaeda are
operating in Mexico and
pose a potential threat to U.S.
businesses, military personnel,
and civilians throughout the
region.
Trained fighters from al-Qaida,
Hizballah (Party of God) Hamas
(Islamic Resistance Movement)
and Revolutionary Armed Forces
of Colombia (FARC) have been
seen in Mexico and the
Kirkurk police academy recruits
march in platoons numbering
around 50 to various stations
where they will conduct two
hours of calisthenics daily.
Pic SSG Margaret Nelson.
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Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has reported cells from these terrorist organizations are believed here in the U.S. as well. According to a well placed CIA operative.
Just last year the Washington
Times reported Fort Huachuca,
the nation's largest
intelligence-training center,
changed security measures in May
after being warned that Islamist
terrorists, with the aid of
Mexican drug cartels, were
planning an attack on the
facility.
Fort officials changed security
measures after sources warned
that possibly 60 Afghan and
Iraqi terrorists were to be
smuggled into the U.S. through
underground tunnels with
high-powered weapons to attack
the Arizona Army base, according
to multiple confidential law
enforcement documents obtained
by The Washington Times.
The El Paso Journal has been told by an anonymous caller who claims to be an Lt. of a Mexican cartel said in advance, "that the Mexican drug cartels would be advertising for recruits to train as cartel soldiers to fight the Mexican army which has been sent to the border with the U.S. to extinguish the Mexican drug cartels". Just today a week or so since he made the predictions banners where string across a main artery in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico advertising for recruits. He also said they would be advertising on the internet which has also happened. His predictions have been accurate so far. He told of the Mexican army coming to each border town before they did. The Journal has not reported any of his predictions to date without confirmation from other independent unrelated and reliable sources.
The Mexican government first realized that Islamic radical militants were already starting to infiltrate the country in statements by high-ranking Mexican officials prior to and following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks indicated "that Islamic extremist organizations has sought to establish a presence in Mexico".
Former Mexican national security adviser and ambassador to the United Nations, Adolfo Aguilar Zinser, stated, that “Spanish and Islamic terrorist groups are using Mexico as a refuge… In light of this situation, there are continuing investigations aimed at dismantling these groups so that they may not cause problems". He also mentioned that the terrorist groups in question are located in the northern part of the country. “Islamic people” in Mexico sparked speculation among observers that the Lebanese Shi’ite terrorist organization Hizbollah have established cells in Mexico.
Remarks made by Mexican public officials indicate the real possibility that al Qaeda cells are present in Mexico and could potentially attempt to cross the U.S. southwest border to conduct additional attacks.
The former director of Mexico’s Center for Intelligence and National Security (Centro de Inteligencia y Seguridad Nacional—Cisen), Eduardo Medina Mora, remarked that the possibility of an al Qaeda attack against the United States launched from Mexico “could not be ruled out.”
National Migration Institute (Instituto Nacional de Migracion—INM) official Felipe Urbiola Ledezma made more alarming statements during remarks to the press, Urbiola said, “We have in Mexico people linked to terrorism and we are constantly observing unusual immigration flows…[people connected to] ETA, Hizbollah and even some with links to Usama Bin Laden.”
Other terrorist and criminal groups are in Mexico including the Russian mafia groups such as the Poldolskaya, Mazukinskaya, Tambovskaya, and Izamailovskaya have been detected in Mexico. The Moscow-based Solntsevskaya gang is also reported to be present in the country, as are other mafia gangs from Chechnya, Georgia, Armenia, Lithuania, Poland Croatia, Serbia, Hungary, Albania, and Rumania. Their major activities include drug and arms trafficking, money laundering, prostitution, trafficking in women from Eastern and Central Europe and Russia, alien smuggling, kidnapping, and credit card fraud.
Reforma a leading Mexican newspaper reported that U.S. intelligence agencies had detected a partnership between the Tijuana-based Arellano-Felix Organization (AFO) and Russian mafia groups based in southern California. In a separate story, Reforma reported that members of the former KGB-affiliated Kurganskaya group in San Diego had met with AFO operative Humberto Rodríguez Banuelos.
Reforma reported that for at least the last ten years the Russian mafia was supplying Mexican drug traffickers with radars, automatic weapons, grenade launchers, and small submersibles in exchange for cocaine, amphetamines, and heroin. It cited a 1996 sting operation in which undercover DEA agents posing as Russian mafia members sold Carillo Fuentes operatives 300 AK-47s and ammunition in Costa Rica.
Even ten years ago, ten Russians, including four known members of the Russian mafia, were arrested at Mexico City’s international airport when they arrived on a KLM flight from Amsterdam. The mafia members included Aleksandr Zakharov, one of the leaders of the Moscow mafia and founder of the Uralinvest, known to have a principal role in organized crime in Russia. Another detainee was Nicolay Novikov, a Uralinvest director who had been imprisoned on three previous occasions for arms trafficking. A third was Yevgeniy Sazhayev, who had been arrested on two previous occasions for drug trafficking. The fourth was Vladimir Titov, wanted for various assassinations and who had escaped from several Russian prisons with the help of the mafia. The four men, who were traveling with six women, were apparently en route to Acapulco and Cancún. The group was reportedly deported. The Interpol head in Mexico, Juan Manuel Ponce, corroborated accounts that the group had been carrying arms and a substantial amount of cash.
According to Mexican analyst Jorge Fernández Méndez, the Russian mafia bosses had come to Mexico in order to mediate in the gang war being fought between the CFO and various other groups for control of drug trafficking routes through Mexico in the wake of the death of Alejandro Paez.
It is well known that the Russian mafia is deeply entrenched in the criminal fabric of the Mexican drug cartels and still today plays an important roll in providing guns and other weapons to the cartels and are purveyors of, drug smuggling, money laundering, prostitution, trafficking in women from Eastern and Central Europe and Russia, alien and terrorist smuggling, and kidnappings for ransom.
"Baja California is registering
an unstoppable wave of
kidnappings and its gravity
keeps local citizens terrified
because the criminal gangs
operate with impunity and even
act with hostility to inspire
panic."
The state's A.G. said that 36
kidnappings have taken place
this year but an attorney with
the "Association of Hope Against
Forced Disappearances" said that
there are more cases and that
they are not reported so that
the people may not realize the
scope of the problem. An
estimate concludes that eight of
of ten kidnappings are
unreported because many people
opt for silence due to fear of
reprisals and lack of trust in
officialdom.
And elsewhere, Ciudad Juarez,
Chihuahua, tallied twelve
reports of kidnappings in March
including that of two police
officers.
The self proclaimed Mexican drug cartel Lt. says," that we will be offering Mexican soldiers very attractive pay packages and other benefits to cross over and go to work for us". He told the journal we can look for that new development to be happening soon. He also predicts that "active current duty Mexican soldiers and Mexican Federal Police officers will be killed by well armed and trained cartel soldiers".
Sources:
A GLOBAL OVERVIEW OF NARCOTICS-FUNDED TERRORIST AND OTHER EXTREMIST GROUPS
A Report Prepared by the Federal Research Division, Library of Congress under an Interagency Agreement with the Department of Defense.
Hundreds being rounded- up and many Arrested in Juarez Mexico
The U.S. placed Mexico under a travel alert As Thousands of Armed Mexican Troops Patrol the Streets of Juarez
Linking of drug cartels on the Texas border with Middle East terrorist
President Bush's top intelligence aide has confirmed that Iraqi terrorists have been captured coming into the United States from Mexico
Americans Being Kidnapped, Held and killed in Mexico
