Islamic Terrorists Target U.S. Army Base in Arizona

[Washington Times] Sara A. Carter - Fort Huachuca, the nation's largest intelligence-training center, changed security measures in May after being warned that Islamist terrorists, with the aid of Mexican drug cartels, were planning an attack on the facility. Sources warned that possibly 60 Afghan and Iraqi terrorists were to be smuggled into the U.S. through underground tunnels with high-powered weapons to attack the Arizona Army base, according to multiple confidential law enforcement documents. An FBI advisory stated: "The Afghanis and Iraqis shaved their beards so as not to appear to be Middle Easterners." According to the FBI, each Middle Easterner paid Mexican drug lords $20,000 "or the equivalent in weapons" for the cartel's assistance in smuggling them and their weapons into the U.S.


2007-11-27 01:00:00

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