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America’s porous southern border is an entry point for more than Mexican cartels and their illegal drugs — the Iranian-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah has been smuggling drugs and people into the U.S. as well.
Hezbollah has long been involved in narcotics and human trafficking in South America, and is now using the same routes into the U.S. that the Mexican cartels use for smuggling, according to an exclusive report in The Washington Times.
The group relies on “the same criminal weapons smugglers, document traffickers, and transportation experts as the drug cartels,” said Michael Braun, who recently retired as assistant administrator and chief of operations at the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.
“They work together. They rely on the same shadow facilitators. One way or another, they are all connected,” he said.
Hezbollah, which fought a 34-day war with Israel in 2006, funds its operations in part from a large Lebanese Muslim diaspora, and some of that funding comes from criminal enterprises.
Salim Boughader Mucharrafille, a Mexican of Lebanese descent, was arrested in 2002 for smuggling 200 people, including Hezbollah supporters, into the U.S. He was sentenced last year to 60 years in a Mexican prison.
But the cross-border flow of drugs and people has intensified since the U.S. reduced access to the country by air and water following the 9/11 terrorist attacks. And the drug wars between the cartels have claimed the lives of more than 8,000 people since January 2008, destabilizing Mexico along the border and prompting President Barack Obama to send additional agents there.
Attacking them outside this country would be just get even behavior but I agree with it also.
No, it would be DEFENDING american interests, which is the true task of our government. Just because someone finds a way to legally exploit the law through loopholes, doesn't make it right. When that exploitation is coming from terrorists, it needs to be addressed meaningfully.
We need to keep our laws, and stay in accordance with our constitution. We must not allow a policy to be written that abuses the constitution, but at the same time, not allow so much latitude that it opens the constitution up to assault through economic avenues. I consider that we have been under economic assault for a considerable length of time now. I've been saying this for a very long time now.
Oil prices should have been obvious, but because the international trail and games afoot are not readily identified in the system we have in place, people were all too willing to assume peak oil and supply/demand were calling the shots. They absolutely were NOT. Saudi King wasn't doing this, but other players hiding in the middlemen ranks were (even if this hurt OPEC taking the blame for their actions). The price of oil artificially driven up WAS an act of terrorism capitalizing on wall street greed and blindness. They got everyone to shoot themselves in the foot with their own gun. THINK!
America’s porous southern border is an entry point for more than Mexican cartels and their illegal drugs — the Iranian-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah has been smuggling drugs and people into the U.S. as well.
Hezbollah has long been involved in narcotics and human trafficking in South America, and is now using the same routes into the U.S. that the Mexican cartels use for smuggling, according to an exclusive report in The Washington Times.
The group relies on “the same criminal weapons smugglers, document traffickers, and transportation experts as the drug cartels,” said Michael Braun, who recently retired as assistant administrator and chief of operations at the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.
“They work together. They rely on the same shadow facilitators. One way or another, they are all connected,” he said.
Hezbollah, which fought a 34-day war with Israel in 2006, funds its operations in part from a large Lebanese Muslim diaspora, and some of that funding comes from criminal enterprises.
Salim Boughader Mucharrafille, a Mexican of Lebanese descent, was arrested in 2002 for smuggling 200 people, including Hezbollah supporters, into the U.S. He was sentenced last year to 60 years in a Mexican prison.
But the cross-border flow of drugs and people has intensified since the U.S. reduced access to the country by air and water following the 9/11 terrorist attacks. And the drug wars between the cartels have claimed the lives of more than 8,000 people since January 2008, destabilizing Mexico along the border and prompting President Barack Obama to send additional agents there.
And when liberals support your question posed, but are not willing to bash a whole group of people as being primary villains, will you still bash liberals and tell them they're idiots for having concerns about staying in the framework of the constitution?
I'm in the middle of you two and I'm telling you- YOU ARE BOTH RIGHT, but you're both wrong in the way you mean to go about solving the issues. Creating a 'cure' that kills the patient is pretty pointless, is it not???
Why would Hezbollah attack the US? It's not within their interests to do so. This thread is nothing more than "end of the world," "apocalyptic" fantasizing preferred by right-wing nutcases. You guys need to get your heads out of your asses, the world is much more complex than your limited thinking.
GOPATTA, or we could just seal the border and be done with it. Mexico can't or won't manage it's own people, what can be said or done?
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