November 22, 2005

"Al-Qaida Operative Nabbed Near Mexican Border"

An al-Qaida operative who was on the FBI's terrorist watch list was recently captured near the Mexican border, housed in a Texas jail and turned over to federal agents, Rep. John Culberson, R-Texas, said on Friday.

"A confirmed al-Qaida terrorist, an Iraqi national, was held in the Brewster County jail," Rep. Culberson told ABC Radio host Sean Hannity. "He was captured in Mexico. This was within the last six weeks. He was turned over to the FBI."

The Texas Republican said he obtained the stunning information about the terrorist's capture "from the sheriffs who were directly involved.

"In fact, one was the sheriff who incarcerated him in the Brewster County jail [and who] confirmed this as well," he explained. The same sheriff also confirmed "that this guy is on the FBI's al-Qaida list," he added...

Posted to Immigration_terror at November 22, 2005 06:43 AM

Comments

I'd have to see more on this before I get too excited. If he was captured inside Mexican territory, I would think that all the annoying mouthpieces for the Mexican government would be all over TV yammering about how their government is "helping" us with the war of terror. On the other hand, maybe the reason we're hearing about this from a relatively unknown Texas congressman is because the Bush administration is trying to ignore the whole matter. The last thing Bush wants is for his beloved Mexico to be implicated in anything that might cause the American public to finally say "enough" and demand that the border be closed.

Posted by: Gary at November 22, 2005 10:41 AM

Given the incompetence of our intelligence, we should take this with a grain of salt. But also given the terrorists's resolve and the ease of crossing our border (expecially for someone with some ca-ching), one must ponder not if, but how many, terrorists have crossed into the US via the southern border.

Posted by: Ralph at November 22, 2005 11:02 AM

Real CLear politics debunks the story here:

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/blog/2005/11/alqaeda_the_usmexico_border_pa.html

Posted by: Conor at November 22, 2005 07:58 PM

I don't think RCP's post qualifies so much as a debunking as a - gasp! - realization of a quote from John Cornyn they provided in Part 1 of their series:

"To some extent, people are in denial. Every time I talk about the vulnerability of our Southern border, people say the 9/11 people came her legally and that’s a problem, and then they overstayed. Or they say, our Northern border is longer and easier to penetrate."

Which is pretty much what Bevan says in Part 2.

Posted by: TLB at November 22, 2005 09:19 PM

Look people the "Mexican", Government has been helping Bin Laden's boys for years now, the system inside this non nation has many operatives inside our so called government helping bin laden.

when the people who control the attacks what a new one we will be attacked, the question people should be asking who are the people doing the controlling and how many are inside our own Congress?. oh yes, how many are inside the FBI?

ASK WHY ARE OUR BORDERS SO OPENED AND WHERE IS BIN LADEN?

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Posted by: Fred Dawes at November 24, 2005 08:47 PM