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dieseldiva

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I guess the argument could be made that "at least we caught this one".....but doesn't it make you wonder how many we DON'T catch???

Surprise! Radical Islamist smuggled across US-Mexico border
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POSTED AT 11:36 AM ON JANUARY 27, 2011 BY ED MORRISSEY
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Almost seven years ago, the 9/11 Commission warned Congress about the security risk the nation runs against terrorist infiltration over the US-Mexico border (as wel as the US-Canadian border). Specifically, they recommended heightened security along both borders to ensure that terrorists could not cross over from either Canada or Mexico undetected, and that “t is elemental to border security to know who is coming into the country” [page 407]. Since then, conservatives have demanded border security and immigration enforcement as part of a rational national-security strategy. Opponents to this approach argue that conservatives blow this out of proportion, that there is no evidence of such infiltration, and the argument only serves to feed xenophobia.

This puts a dent in that argument:

U.S. border authorities have arrested a controversial Muslim cleric who was deported from Canada to Tunisia three years ago and was caught earlier this month trying to sneak into California inside the trunk of a BMW, according to court documents.

Said Jaziri, the former Imam of a Muslim congregation in Montreal, was hidden inside a car driven by a San Diego-area man who was pulled over by U.S. Border Patrol agents near an Indian casino east of San Diego. Jaziri allegedly paid a Tijuana-based smuggling group $5,000 to get him across the border near Tecate, saying he wanted to be taken to a “safe place anywhere in the U.S.”

The arrest marks the unexpected resurfacing of the 43-year-old cleric, whose protracted legal battle to avoid deportation drew headlines in Canada. A Tunisian immigrant, Jaziri was deported for failing to disclose a criminal conviction in France while applying for refugee status in the mid-1990s.

But Jaziri’s supporters said he was targeted for his fundamentalist views: Jaziri backed Sharia law for Canadian Muslims and led protests over the publication of the prophet Muhammad cartoons in a Danish newspaper in 2006.

Canada deported Jaziri in 2007 after they discovered that he lied in a refugee application about his criminal record in France. David Knowles gives a quick FAQ about Jaziri, and also has this 2007 report from the CBC on Jaziri’s expulsion from Canada:


So he lied about his criminal record to get into Canada so that he could proselytize for radical Islam, and now he attempted to smuggle himself into the US. We did manage to catch him on this attempt, but at the moment, Jaziri is only being held as a material witness and on $25,000 bail. It won’t take much to spring him, and if he is released, it will take a lot more effort to kick him back out.

How many more Jaziris cross the border successfully? According to this report, via Katie Pavlich, perhaps more than we know:

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.”

But we should focus our efforts on suing Arizona for attempting to enforce immigration law rather than securing the border so it won’t be necessary.
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Our government in general and, this administration in particular, just does not give a rat's bootie about doing their job and defending our borders. They are more interested in either cheap labor or more votes. It does not matter if people here end up getting killed.
 
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When he was arrested here, he told the border patrol that all he wanted to do was find a "safe place to live here in the US".....i wonder hpw safe he will be if he goes to the general population in jail for an extended amount of time....
 
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chefdennis said:
When he was arrested here, he told the border patrol that all he wanted to do was find a "safe place to live here in the US".....i wonder hpw safe he will be if he goes to the general population in jail for an extended amount of time....
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Too bad that he did not try to "fight" his arrest. Shooting him as he fought would have saved us a LOT of time and money.
 
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chefdennis said:
When he was arrested here, he told the border patrol that all he wanted to do was find a "safe place to live here in the US"....
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You do realize he did not say that to the border patrol, right? He told that to the Tijuana-based smuggling group.

Said Jaziri, the former Imam of a Muslim congregation in Montreal, was hidden inside a car driven by a San Diego-area man who was pulled over by U.S. Border Patrol agents near an Indian casino east of San Diego. Jaziri allegedly paid a Tijuana-based smuggling group $5,000 to get him across the border near Tecate, saying he wanted to be taken to a “safe place anywhere in the U.S.”
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witness23 said:
*sigh*....
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LOL!! Don't like calling a spade a shovel? Neither the bum in the truck nor the bunch he paid are honest, upstanding people. Both were involved in criminal activity. They are ALMOST as bad as Obama and the congress who are deliberately IGNORING their required job of defending this nation for their own political or economic gain. There is NO reason for this scum bag to be SNEAKING into our Country in the trunk of a car except to do us harm.
 
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witness23 said:
You do realize he did not say that to the border patrol, right? He told that to the Tijuana-based smuggling group.
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What difference does it make who he said it to?? The point of the story AND the post is that just as we knew was happening, it isn't only poor helpless Mexicans sneaking across to find work.
 
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witness23 said:
*sigh*....
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I'm the one that should be "sighing"....all you seem to have gotten out of that article is something this idiot said and then you wanted to argue about who he said it to. There's nothing in this post to debate and yet you try hard to find something.....that tells me you just want to argue and attempt to make others look small.
 
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witness23 said:
Why don't you expound on that layout. Ooops, you probably don't know that word, allow me to explain... Meaning, why don't you explain to everybody why you are paying a compliment to me.
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I know that I cannot do this as it would be infringing on someone's free speech but sometimes I just wanna "go Levin" on others and say....Get outta my thread ya big dope!!
 
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dieseldiva said:
I know that I cannot do this as it would be infringing on someone's free speech but sometimes I just wanna "go Levin" on others and say....Get outta my thread ya big dope!!
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i got that DieselDiva, I just ignored it. The only way he can keep up his self-esteem is to belittle other members. We should have pity on him.
 
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