The warnings and the facts are all around us…the war against civilian populations in the West has begun and America is in the crosshairs. FSM Contributing Editors Renee and Mark Taylor revisit some of the clear warnings and ask if we are ready to heed them at last.
The War is Here – Are You Ready?
By Mark R. And Renee E. Taylor
In a style reminiscent of the vehicle born incendiary explosive devices (VBIED) used in Iraq and by terrorists worldwide, two Mercedes were found in London this weekend packed with gasoline, gas canisters and nails. The bombs were to be exploded using cell phones as remote detonators, another favorite tactic of those terrorists who do not wish to die themselves. Had the plan been successful, potentially hundreds of innocent civilians would have been brutally murdered either by the explosions or by the deadly projectiles that the nails would have become. London was saved by alert citizens who noticed something was amiss and took swift action.
The United States, because of lax border security and an inability to enforce its own immigration laws, will be next. Over the past few months, our news has been consumed with debate on an amnesty bill that would give legal status to millions of illegal aliens who have crossed the US/Mexico border. A red-faced, shrill Ted Kennedy would have us believe that these illegals are all here to pick lettuce. President Bush, who was adamant after September 11, 2001, that he would do all he could do to keep Americans safe, attempted to feed the American public the same false bill of goods. With the focus on the senorita cleaning motel rooms or the senor waiting outside Home Depot for a day labor job, Washington has forgotten that we are at war. We are at war with a sly, evasive enemy who preys on our unwillingness to secure our homeland. It should come as no surprise that the enemy is among us, waiting to strike. You have been warned.
On October 19, 2001, J. Zane Walley reported for World Net Daily “Arabs have been reported crossing the Arizona border for an unknown period. Border rancher George Morgan encounters thousands of illegals crossing his ranch on a well-used trail. He relates a holiday event: ‘It was Thanksgiving 1998, and I stepped outside my house and there were over a hundred 'crossers' in my yard. Damnedest bunch of illegals I ever saw. All of them were wearing black pants, white shirts and string ties. Maybe they were hoping to blend in,’ he chuckled. ‘They took off, I called the Border Patrol, and a while later, an agent, Dan Green, let me know that they had caught them. He said that they were all Iranians.’
“According to Border Patrol spokesperson Rob Daniels, ‘Ten Egyptians were arrested recently near Douglas, Arizona. Each had paid $7,000 to be brought from Guatemala into Mexico and then across the border.’
“According to the San Diego Union-Tribune, hours after the 9-11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, an anonymous caller led Mexican immigration agents to 41 undocumented Iraqis waiting to cross into the United States.“
On March 22, 2005, The Christian Science Monitor reported, “in a Feb. 16 Senate hearing, Mr. Mueller cited the case of Mahmoud Youssef Kourani, who paid to be smuggled across the US-Mexico border in 2001. He pleaded guilty on March 1 to providing material support to Hezbollah and was sentenced to no more than five years in prison.”
“The most recent sign, though, that terrorists may be thinking of entering the US from the south came from the mastermind of many of the terror attacks in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Last week, US officials revealed that Mr. Zarqawi may be planning to broaden his campaign to include strikes in the US - and suggested it would be easy to infiltrate the US through the southern border.”
On December 4, 2006, the editors of Family Security Matters did an extensive expose, “Border Security, Terrorism and You”, on the terrorist threat from our southern border. In a comprehensive list of reports of terrorist threats to our country through the porous Mexican border, FSM reports that in 2005, “at least 850 people from countries of “special interest” were apprehended crossing the southern border. How many more successfully crossed is unknown.”
On December 29, 2006, we wrote an article for GreatMindsThinkRight titled “Bolo – Adnan el Shukrijumah”. On the FBI’s Most Wanted List, Shukrijumah’s extended stay in Mexico in 2004 raised some concern. Known for his desire to smuggle nuclear weapons into the United States to facilitate his “American Hiroshima”, the Mexican border provides a welcome mat for his comrades to execute his dastardly plans. Shukrijumah was also the subject of Adrian Morgan’s “The Islamists Nuclear Threat to America”, published on Family Security Matters (June 20, 2007). Morgan lays out the threat to our nation that should shock every American into the war footing needed to fight the enemy on all fronts – in the Middle East and most importantly, here at home.
And Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid (D-NV), as well as others in our government - “leaders” who were elected to protect us - want you to think that illegal immigrants only want to “do the jobs Americans won’t do.” Senator Reid and his clueless colleagues have forgotten to add to the list the illegal immigrants “who will do the terrorist bombings Americans won’t do.” With very good reason, common-sense Americans care far more about the latter than the former.
On June 2007, a plot to blow up the pipelines leading to New York’s JFK Airport was thwarted and the perpetrators arrested. According to Mayor Michael Bloomberg, “The plot was hatched in January 2006 in New York and involved Muslim extremists from Guyana and Trinidad. It was broken up while still in the planning stages with the aid of an informant” and involved a former Evergreen airlines worker.
Three of the infamous “Fort Dix Six”, who hatched a plot to attack Fort Dix, New Jersey, and kill American soldiers, entered the United States illegally through Mexico and, according to World Net Daily, “the three illegal aliens in the group – who came across the Mexican border – were pulled over a total of 19 times by local police for traffic violations but never reported to Immigration and Customs Enforcement because of sanctuary policies.”
Ours is a country in denial – a denial underscored by ill-informed politicians in Washington, the mainstream media and by average citizens who refuse to acknowledge the fact that we are at war. Since the war’s inception, “human rights activists” and other far left groups have demanded civil court trials for the enemy caught on the battlefield and sent to Guantanamo Bay. The civilian population can accept criminal acts – a daily occurrence that is handled admirably by our law enforcement and legal system. Unlike war, this does not disrupt their lives. But by admitting the obvious - that insurgents live and work alongside us – that would force them to make difficult decisions for which our politically correct society has not prepared them. In fact, worse than that, Washington will not build the fence on the US/Mexican border. They will not send armed soldiers to guard the borders, and they imprison Border Patrol agents for protecting this country from drug smugglers.
With this eery and inexplicable denial all around us, Americans must be vigilant just like the heroes who thwarted the bombings in London this weekend. We must get on a much-needed wartime footing and realize the war is already here. The truck bombs are here. The car bombs are here. The enemy is here. Are you ready to do your part?
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FamilySecurityMatters.org Contributing Editor Editor Mark R. Taylor served in Iraq from January 2004 to May 2005 as a civilian convoy commander. His commentary has appeared in Landline Magazine, American Daily and Townhall.com, and he has been interviewed on a variety of radio programs. His website is www.uglypuppy.net.
Renee Taylor is the editor of http://www.greatmindsthinkright.com/, a freelance writer, photographer, home schooling mom and publicist for Joey Holiday. A former truck driver, she has devoted her time to studying convoy operations and promoting the positive image of the American Trucker in Iraq.
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