Do they think we don't know terrorists are entering the U.S. through the southern border?

Question

A book celebrating suicide bombers has been found in the Arizona desert just north of the U.S.- Mexican border, authorities tell Fox News.

The book, "In Memory of Our Martyrs," was spotted Tuesday by a U.S. Border Patrol agent out of the Casa Grande substation who was patrolling a route known for smuggling illegal immigrants and drugs.
Published in Iran, it consists of short biographies of Islamic suicide bombers and other Islamic militants who died carrying out attacks.

According to internal U.S. Customs and Border Protection documents, "The book also includes letters from suicide attackers to their families, as well as some of their last wills and testaments." Each biographical page contains "the terrorist's name, date of death, and how they died."

"At this time, DHS does not have any credible information on terrorist groups operating along the Southwest border," a Department of Homeland Security official said in a statement. "We work closely with our partners in the law enforcement and intelligence communities and as a matter of due diligence and law enforcement best practice, report anything found, no matter how significant or insignificant it may seem."

Statements from U.S. officials, including FBI director Robert Mueller, have raised serious concerns in recent years over "OTMs" -- or illegal immigrants other than Mexicans -- who have crossed the southwest border at alarming rates.

Mueller testified before the House Appropriations Committee in March 2005 that "there are individuals from countries with known Al Qaeda connections who are changing their Islamic surnames to Hispanic-sounding names and obtaining false Hispanic identities, learning to speak Spanish and pretending to be Hispanic."

Just last year, the Department of Homeland Security had in custody thousands of detainees from Afghanistan, Egypt, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Yemen. U.S. Border Patrol statistics indicate that there were 108,025 OTMs detained in 2006, compared to 165,178 in 2005 and 44,614 in 2004.

Authorities would not release a picture of the book to Fox News, or reveal how long they believe it was lying in the desert. Immigration officials have previously discovered items along the U.S.-Mexico border from Middle Eastern origin, including Iranian currency in Zapata, Texas, and a jacket found in Jim Hogg County, Texas, that was covered in patches including an Arabic military badge that illustrates an airplane flying into a tower. http://search.yahoo.com/r/_ylt=A0oG7hqyeURNAFoBxlVXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTEzMnZzMjVnBHNlYwNzcgRwb3MDMwRjb2xvA2FjMgR2dGlkA1FJMDA3Xzcy/SIG=13h5161d5/EXP=1296362034/**http%3a//www.foxnews.com/us/2011/01/27/iranian-book-celebrating-suicide-bombers-arizona-desert/

Yet, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told the Senate Judiciary Committee on April 27 that the Southwest border is "as secure as it has ever been,"

Do you feel secure?

Answer 1

"Books like that can be ordered online and can be found in specialist book stores up and down the country. The First Amendment gives Americans the right import them. The CIA and FBI read books like this all the time so that they can better understand the minds of terrorists, and so do college students doing psychology and politics courses."

Are the CIA, the FBI and college students reading the book in the desert, on an illegal alien route?



"Why pose as somebody who is LESS likely to be allowed into America."

That explains the presence of 20 million or so illegal aliens! (forehead smack). The word is 'sneak', as in they sneak across the border.



"Not one of the 9/11 hijackers crossed from Mexico. They all came in through the front door."

And now, they are crying about being profiled. They know they can't use the same method a second time. Fool us once, shame on us....



"Terrorists sneaking in through Mexico might even have to fight the Mexican drugs gangs."

Never mind the news that violence in Mexico is spilling over the U.S. border. http://search.yahoo.com/r/_ylt=A0oG7le0t0RNIRsAANdXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTEybWtqMnNiBHNlYwNzcgRwb3MDMQRjb2xvA2FjMgR2dGlkA0RGUjVfODg-/SIG=126oapnrt/EXP=1296377908/**http%3a//www.nytimes.com/2009/03/23/us/23border.html

The bottom line with all thugs is money. If the terrorists have the money, they can be smuggled in with the illegals coming to the U.S. for work. The cartels get a cut, and they are satisfied.



No, I don't feel secure. Napolitano has no idea what is going on, and is so incompetent as head of Homeland Security it's almost as if we are just biding our time until the next terror attack. They may be trying to hide the fact that terrorists are entering the United States through our southern border, but most of us aren't stupid. We know better.

Answer 2

Books like that can be ordered online and can be found in specialist book stores up and down the country. The First Amendment gives Americans the right import them. The CIA and FBI read books like this all the time so that they can better understand the minds of terrorists, and so do college students doing psychology and politics courses.



The idea of a terrorist posing as an Hispanic is silly. Why pose as somebody who is LESS likely to be allowed into America. Arabs often have a better chance of entering the US than Hispanics. They just pay to study at an American university and are waived right through immigration. Hispanics get stopped at the border as potential illegals.



Not one of the 9/11 hijackers crossed from Mexico. They all came in through the front door. With passports and their trousers stuffed full of US dollars.



If anything it's the border with Canada that you should be worried about. Many border posts are manned 24/7, and a terrorist with a Canadian papers can waltz right in.



Terrorists sneaking in through Mexico might even have to fight the Mexican drugs gangs. Mexican drugs gangs want America to be peaceful and prosperous as it means that people can buy more drugs. Terrorism is bad for business. It brings too much federal attention to the border.

Answer 3

A history of derisive religious and political views and an international criminal past mark the Tunisian Muslim Cleric who snuck into the country from Mexico in early January.



The man, Said Jaziri, was found hiding in the trunk of a BMW by Border Patrol agents who were tipped off by state firefighters. The firefighters had watched Jaziri and another man, a Mexican national, climb into the truck just off of Tierra del Sol Road, near the intersection of Moon Valley Road. The men had climbed a border wall and hiked overnight to reach the pick-up site on Jan. 11.



Jaziri is being held at the San Luis Detention Center in Yuma as a material witness in the case against the driver, Kenneth Robert Lawler. Lawler, a citizen, is charged with immigrant smuggling.



The following chronology is based on published reports in Canada and Tunisia.



According to news accounts Jaziri was deported from Canada in 2007 and from France sometime in the 1990s. At the time of his removal from Canada his wife, Nancy-Ann Adams, was one month from giving birth to their first child.



The expulsion occurred after officials discovered Jaziri had lied on his refugee application about having served jail time in France previously. In 1995 Jaziri served eight months in a French jail after being part of a fundamentalist group attack on a less-devout person who they faulted for closing down a prayer room.



Before his deportation from Canada Jaziri, who led the largest North African mosque in Montreal, claimed he would be in danger if returned to Tunisia, where he opposed the regime at the time. His supporters believed his deportation was politically motivated. The Imam had led demonstrations against Danish cartoons that poked fun at Islam supported the creation of Islamic law tribunals in Canada and rebuked homosexuality as a disease. He also garnered attention for saying the Canadian government should build a $20 million mosque for the city’s Muslims.



In 2005 when Jaziri first learned his refugee status had been revoked he hid in his mosque for weeks. Two years later he was deported after exhausting all legal challenges. The Canadian government said Jaziri was exaggerating about the dangers he would face in Tunisia.



Conflicting reports about the Imam exist and include a book written by Fabrice de Pierrebourg on Montreal Muslims. in the tome he quotes Jaziri’s attorney saying Jaziri was willing to go back to Tunisia. A Canadian newspaper reported Jaziri said he was tortured in Tunisia after he was ousted from France, however he never mentioned this to Canadian authorities.



In Tunisian media reports about his arrival in Tunisia in 2007 Jaziri blamed Canada for mistreatment and said he was tied up for the duration of the 13-hour flight. Jaziri denounced the treatment he received and compared it to “psychological and physical torture.” He also claimed Tunisia was superior to Canada in respect to reuniting with family.



Various bloggers in Canada now speculate Jaziri’s arrival in the U.S. is part of a journey back to Canada. It’s unclear, however, where Jaziri’s journey was to end before he was apprehended by U.S. Border Patrol. The driver was to take him and the other man to a parking lot in Mission Viejo, just north of San Diego County, for a hand-off, according to court documents.



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