1:17 p.m. PDT: This report should surprise no one. Anyone with half a brain can figure out that if Central Americans are crossing the southern border with ease, Muslim terrorists can and have been doing the same thing.
The terrorist network Al-Qaida will likely leverage its contacts and capabilities in Iraq to mount an attack on U.S. soil, according to a new National Intelligence Estimate on threats to the United States.
The declassified key findings, released Tuesday, laid out a range of dangers — from al-Qaida to Lebanese Hezbollah to non-Muslim radical groups — that pose a “persistent and evolving threat” to the country over the next three years. As expected, however, the findings focus most of their attention on the gravest terror problem: Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaida network.
The report makes clear that al-Qaida in Iraq, which has not yet posed a direct threat to U.S. soil, could become a problem here.
Let’s link it up: Al-Qaida likely will use or is using smugglers to import Muslim terrorists into the United States. But the man in the White House doesn’t want to build a fence or install more agents on the border or enforce current immigration laws or allow profiling. Instead, he wants Congress to write new laws to grant amnesty to illegal aliens and encourage more to flood the country. And he pays lip service to border security. I can’t plead ignorance or drunkenness. When I voted for Bush the second time, I knew his true position on border enforcement (as opposed to his sound bites), but I certainly wasn’t voting for John Kerry.
Fighting the so-called war on terror and securing the southern border are forever linked, despite what politicians say. American men and woman are dying in the Middle East for “democracy,” while the enemy sneaks in the back door here at home.
I say we need to resurrect the policy of internment.
