The Iranian-supported Shi’ite terrorist group Hezbollah has spread its influence all the way to the U.S. border with Mexico, a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on Iran’s influence in the Western Hemisphere heard on Thursday.
Michael Braun, a former chief of operations at the Drug Enforcement Agency, said Hezbollah had developed relationships with the powerful Mexican drug cartels to “move their agenda forward.” He cited a plot, recently uncovered by the DEA, involving an Iranian operative in Mexico allegedly planning to assassinate the Saudi ambassador in Washington, D.C.
“Hezbollah are absolute masters at forming close relationships with existing organized crime groups around the world that helps them facilitate what they need to do to move their agendas forward,” Braun told CNSNews.com following the hearing. “And if anyone thinks for a moment that they don’t have their eye on the southwest border and all of our country, then they couldn’t be more wrong.”
In his prepared remarks Braun, who also served as interim director of the Department of Justice’s Drug Intelligence Fusion Center, said Hezbollah and other terrorist groups understand that the Mexican cartels are already operating successfully inside the United States.
“If anyone thinks for one moment that these terrorist organizations do not understand that the Mexican drug trafficking cartels now dominate drug trafficking in our country – reportedly in more than 250 cities – than they are very stupid or very naive,” he said.
“And these groups most assuredly recognize the strategic value of exploiting that activity, and all that has been built to support it, for moving their vision forward in this part of the world.”
Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.), chairwoman of the committee, cited Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Quds Force and its connections to the Zeta drug cartel in the foiled assassination attempt on U.S. soil.
She asked Braun whether he believed Iran had “strategic interests” in Central America and the southwest border.
Braun said Quds Force and Hezbollah work “very, very hard” to develop relationships with criminal groups that already have in place systems for illegal activities, including drug and human trafficking, money laundering and forged document operations.
Several years ago, I attended a classified course on anti-terrorism. I expect most of the class is not classified any more since I have been reading about some of the content. It is no surprise that Hezbollah has cells all over the US with more than 80 at last count. They have been able to come and go as they please over the SW border. With the Democrats fighting the control of the border, it will not be long until real weapons of mass destruction arrives at your local shopping mall soon. Iran supports them. Iran has already started training and deploying terrorist to the US to accompplish individual acts of terrorism. I recommend everyone watch their back while Homeland Security is watching the domestic terrorists like me!
@Randy:
When I went to UC Irvine and was threatened by some of the Muslim Student Union (now banned on that campus) I learned from a student who lived in the dorm that the practice of offering a huge sublet price to dormies is how some terrorist groups keep a presence on American campuses.
Say you parents pay $3,000 a month for your dorm room and cafeteria food.
Then someone from Muslim Brotherhood, New Black Panther Party, ELF or ALF (all outlawed from all campuses) offers your $10,000 a month for your room and key card.
If you take it you must live off campus and feed yourself on only $10,000 a month!
A bunch of kids do it.
The campus police are either really stupid or bribed also.
This was happening in CA as recently as 4 or 5 years ago.
I posted this awhile back, but it fits the thread. There is a second part as well. If my computer skills were better, I’d post that link too. Not everyone is coming here to pursue the American Dream or to pick oranges in California. But to our pols, it’s the potential votes that count the most.
http://www.wsbtv.com/videos/news/channel-2-investigates-us-border-security-part-1/vCS2Q/
Earlier this week, Glenn Beck invited Zack Taylor to speak on his cable program. Taylor leads the National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers . He showed horrific pics of people that had been murdered in a host of ways. Taylor added that, in all his years as a border security agent, he had never witnessed anything as horrific as what is occurring now. Later in the interview, Taylor revealed something that really caught my attention. He said a WMD had crossed one of our southern borders, on October 11th, via tunnel. He didn’t know the specifics of the WMD.
@Nan G: This wholesale importation of ‘students’ from mooslem countries needs to be terminated – PERIOD –
@another vet: when you say “Not everyone is coming here to — ” One of the SOB’s has made it to the WH —
Oh, isn’t this story Lovely… Terrorists not only at our door steps but in our house….
When the shit hits the fan [and it will] I ‘demand’ to hear all the “Open Border” Liberal Morons [and other moron’s] to defend their reasoning for demanding open borders….
But of course, it will be the open border idiots ‘demanding’ their “hated” U.S. of A. and the ‘hated’ US of A’s Armed Forces “do something” to save them!!
Any word on what J. Reno [the ‘our borders are safe’ liar] or our lets throw our brave border agents to the wolves while I keep my hands an nose clean, Holder is doing about this? How about our President?? – who seems to feel the most pressing issues at present are attacking the first amendment, religion, more government freebies [birth control] – that these are the MOST IMPORTANT items of his failing political career?
Sheesh – does this have to be on the front steps of the White House for any acknowledgement of a REAL THREAT?
It truly amaze me people will believe more in Global Warming and the Green Energy fantasy, A Unicorn Utopia, then the threat of infiltration of those [terrorists] who wish for nothing more than to Kill American Citizens… at our very doors….and in our house.
Has anyone every heard of the term “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure” ?
I know I am preaching to the Choir but, – what is our Government waiting for???
God Help Us.
@Budvarakbar: To wreck our Constitution and inflict a socialist utopia on us?