http://www.onenewsnow.com/Security/Default.aspx?id=1110664On July 17, a drug cartel completed its first successful car bombing, shaking the violence-stricken city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, and one activist sees that as an indication of an Islamic presence in Mexico and the Mexican-American border.
Juarez, a city plagued by extreme violence and bloodshed, has been home to drug-traffickers and gangs who afflict citizens' daily lives with rising hostility. But despite President Felipe Calderon's attempts to quench the bloodshed by dispatching troops to Juarez, the violence has only increased.
This particular attack exhibits tactics similar to those utilized by terrorists in the Middle East, which one activist sees as an indication of an Islamic presence in Mexico and the Mexican-American border.
Brigitte Gabriel, author and founder of ACT! for America, believes Islam and immigration are closely related. She joins intelligence officials in pointing out that drug cartels are working with terrorist organizations like Hezbollah in order to infiltrate the United States.
"I strongly suggest that Hezbollah is working with the drug cartels," Gabriel affirms. "We know for fact that [terrorists] are working and trying to get into the Latin American countries. We are seeing more and more [Islamic presence] in the border."
The founder of the non-profit organization came to the United States as a Lebanese immigrant after her country was lost to Islamic fundamentalists during the Lebanese Civil War. She now devotes her time to educating Americans on the threat of radical Islam.
As a member of the Board of Advisors of the Intelligence Summit, Gabriel contends in a New York Post article that terrorist organizations and drug cartels are working side-by-side.
Brigitte Gabriel"Law enforcement officials and intelligence analysts believe that terrorist groups like al-Qaeda have been working with such gangs as the ruthless MS-13 to smuggle terrorists into America," she writes. "Intel briefings and other sources suggest that al-Qaeda spends as much as $50,000 to smuggle in a single terrorist, while Hezbollah -- funded by Iran -- pays as much as $10,000."
Gabriel refers to "A Line in the Sand: Confronting the Threat at the Southwest Border," a congressional report on homeland security which shows that a large number of illegal immigrants from countries such as Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iraq are crossing the American border.
Known as OTMs, or "other than Mexicans," these illegal immigrants are able to pass as Hispanics as they have similar features which help them blend well in Mexican cities. The report contains photos of military jackets with the line "Martyr, Way to Eternal Life" on a badge.
A report from WBS-TV further explains that illegal immigrants from Afghanistan, Egypt, Iran, Iraq and Pakistan are in a federal detention center in Arizona and that illegal immigrants from the Middle East came through Latin America, where they learned Spanish and traveled to the Mexican border. These terrorists then gain aid from drug cartel members who helped smuggle weapons and aliens across the border into the United States.
The Washington Times reported in 2009 that Hezbollah is using the same routes that Mexican drug cartels use in order to smuggle illegal substances into the United States and that they depend on the same "criminal weapons smugglers, document traffickers and transportation experts as the drug cartels."
Terrorists are also using other methods to gain entry into America as officials are finding tunnels dug between Mexico and United States -- a method used in Islamic terrorism against Israel, Gabriel says.
For example, U.S. Border Patrol agents recently found a man-made tunnel in El Paso, Texas near the Bridge of the Americas Port of Entry. Authorities have found the entry to the channel at a point in Mexico. Another tunnel was also found in Mexicali in July, and authorities confirm it was used to smuggle people and drugs across the border.
These ploys and methods of violence, including beheadings, is not an imitation of Islamic terror, the activist explains, but they are an indication that there is an Islamic presence near our borders.
"Decapitation is not something new, but it is strictfully an Islamic signature," Gabriel reports. "The heads are posted on top of a post for everyone to see. This is why we are seeing more and more beheadings right now."
As beheadings shootings and bombings increase in Mexico, officials fear the same violence may spill over into the United States, especially since it is now believed that Hezbollah has 11 terrorist cells in America -- one of them being in New York.
Gabriel believes America's confrontation with Iran is also adding fuel to the fire -- an issue that cannot be avoided much longer.
"We are about to head into confrontation with Iran," she suggests. "Iran knows they will head into confrontation with America sooner or later, [so] Iran is trying to set operation in the United States by smuggling [terrorists]."
The activist is also concerned about the alarming infiltration of Islam in America.
Islamic crescent symbol small"[Terrorists] are going directly into large cities. They are marrying American women, [and] they are infiltrating through so many areas," Gabriel points out. "Terrorists are becoming very smart. We are seeing a lot of conversion to Islam, mostly happening in the United State in prison systems and inner cities. The highest conversion of Islam in the United States is the African American community and some from the Hispanic community," she adds.
Meanwhile, Islamic fundamentalists are pulling out the race card as a method of spreading Islamic conversion.
Inmates are told by Muslim imams that Christianity is a white man's religion, while Islam is for the black man because of its African roots. Also, by assuring sex offenders that Islam allows sex with little children -- following the example of the prophet Muhammad -- sex offenders, who are viewed as criminals in Christianity, can be seen as holy men in Islam.
Upon release from prison, inmates go directly to the ghettos and inner cities where they seek to convert their friends and families to Islam, which is promoting the religion "like wildfire."
"The greatest concern is about illegal immigration in general," Gabriel concludes. "Everyone came to America to start a new life. They did not come as criminals. We are concerned about illegal immigration -- not immigration. What we are concerned about is Islamic terrorist and radicals with the purpose of turning Muslim-Americans against America."
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