Al-Qaeda and those lovely salvadorans in MS-13
Conservatives of the immigration-restrictionist persuasion have long warned president George W Bush about the political risks - never mind the security ones - of allowing the border to Mexico to remain open to illegal aliens. We have seen many a signs that our Arab-Muslim enemies have attempted to penetrate our borders to recruit terrorists and carry out attacks. Here’s yet another one, as reported by Washington Times: “Al Qaeda seeks tie to local gangs”.
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.
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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.
