Is Venezuelan Helping Terrorists Enter U.S.

A Congressional Homeland Security report accuses Venezuela of providing support that could help terrorists infiltrate the United States through Texas’ porous border with Mexico.

The Subcommittee on Investigations of the House Homeland Security Committee found that the government of President Hugo Chavez has issued thousands of identity documents that could help terrorists elude immigration checks and illegally enter the United States.

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Rise In Bribery Tests Border Security

Bribery of federal and local officials by Mexican smugglers is rising sharply and with it the fear that a culture of corruption is taking hold along the 2,000-mile border from Brownsville, Texas, to San Diego.

At least 200 public employees have been charged with helping to move narcotics or illegal immigrants across the U.S.-Mexican border since 2004, at least double the illicit activity documented in prior years, a Los Angeles Times examination of public records has found. Thousands more are under investigation.

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FBI Seeks Help Finding Trucks

Thieves in Yuma County stole three specialized power line maintenance trucks and more than $100,000 in tools used to work on major power lines over the weekend, and the FBI is seeking the public’s help tracking down the thieves.

The trucks and tools were stolen from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Gila Substation Maintenance Facility sometime between 5 p.m. Friday and 3 p.m. Saturday, the FBI said. The tools and equipment are used to maintain the high-voltage power grid and specialized knowledge is needed to use them.

There is no known terror threat from the theft and young people are known to hang out in the area.

Missing Vehicle Descriptions

Red 2005 Chevy 3500, U.S. government license plate G63-1300B.

Grray 2006 Chevy 2500, U.S. government license plate G63-2847B.

Sentencing in Terror Plot

A man linked to plotters who allegedly hoped to blow up Chicago’s Sears Tower and other buildings pleaded guilty today to a federal weapons charge.

Sultan Khanbey was sentenced to 14 months in prison with credit for the time he has served since his arrest in May.

Khanbey is a leader of Chicago’s Moorish Science Temple religious sect who was born Charles Stewart. He admitted he fired a handgun during an argument at the Miami warehouse where a group led by Narseal Batiste allegedly pledged allegiance to al-Qaida and made plans for terror attacks.

Batiste and six others arrested this summer never got beyond the plotting stage, and a man they thought was an al-Qaida operative was actually an F-B-I informant.

The seven terror suspects remain jailed without bond and face trial March 5 in Miami.

Federal Security Drive Lost At PDX

Federal Homeland Security officials say a computer storage device that may have held personal information on current and former employees has been lost.

A federal security director says they’re relatively confident that it “got scraped into the trash, and it’s gone.”

The agency has spent several days trying to determine what information was on the drive and where it had gone.

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Major Attacks Against Israel On Their Way

Terror groups allied with Hamas in the Gaza Strip are planning a series of large-scale attacks against Israeli positions near Gaza “within the coming days,” including rocket attacks, suicide bombings against Jewish communities and raids of Israeli military posts, several senior terror leaders in Gaza.

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Stadium Hoax Was Prank by Grocery Clerk

Jake J. Brahm’s jokes began on the Internet with remarks about his boredom and mundane day-to-day activities such as buying socks. The 20-year-old grocery store clerk was still laughing Friday despite learning in federal court that he faces up to five years in prison on charges he posted prank Internet warnings of terrorist attacks against NFL stadiums.

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Arabic Writing Adds To Suspicions Over Mystery Package

A maintenance man noticed a box on the sidewalk near the Hilltop Village Apartments about 10 a.m. Friday, said Jeff Lanza, an FBI spokesman.

The box was about a foot long and 6 inches deep and looked as if it were some sort of camera case.

But there was no reason the package would have been left out in the open.

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FBI Questions Person In NFL Terror Threat

The FBI was interviewing a Milwaukee resident Thursday believed to be responsible for posting what officials think are phony threats on a Web site about radiological dirty bomb attacks on NFL football stadiums this weekend. The person, described only as a young adult, did not appear to have any ties to terrorist groups, according to a law enforcement official who spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation was ongoing.

Authorities traced the site’s Internet provider to Voxel Dot Net Inc., which has support and engineering staff based in Troy, N.Y. A man who answered the phone at Voxel Wednesday declined to give his name, said he was unaware of the posted threat and refused further comment.

The author of the threats, posted at 9:31 p.m. EDT on Oct. 12, identified himself online as “javness.”

al-Qaeda Warns Operatives In Terror Manual

When an aspiring Al Qaeda terrorist is buying a cell phone, it’s best that he purchase the chip inside the device under a phony name or from a black market vendor that does not sell the accompanying documentation. If he has any reason to believe his phone has been tapped, he should sell it immediately to a stranger.

This is the kind of advice contained in “Myth of Delusion,” a 151-page manuscript making the rounds on password-protected jihadi Web sites. The book recently caught the attention of American intelligence analysts, who estimate that it was released sometime this summer.

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NFL Terror Threat Deemed Not Credible

Citing an “abundance of caution,’’ the U.S. Department of Homeland Security warned the National Football League and stadium security officials nationwide about dirty bomb threats posted on a Web site, a spokeswoman said.

“We did put out a private sector note about an hour ago,’’ said Joanna Gonzalez, a department spokeswoman. “We have been monitoring reports from overseas.’’

The threats, posted on an English-language Web site, said that an al Qaeda operative had smuggled deadly materials into the U.S. from Mexico.

“We judge that they are not credible. However, out of an abundance of caution we did want to notify federal state and local law enforcement and private sector partners to be vigilant,’’ Gonzalez said.

The department didn’t name the stadiums, and Gonzalez said the public shouldn’t change plans.

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Britain: Phillippines On Verge of Terror Attack

Britain warned on Tuesday that terrorists may be in the final stages of plotting more attacks after a series of bombings in the southern Philippines, and advised its citizens against traveling to the sprawling region.

The US, British and Australian embassies had cautioned against travel to Mindanao shortly before the attacks, citing credible information that terrorists could strike.

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Tom Tancredo: The Barbarians Are Past the Gate

Excerpt: Evidence of terrorist infiltration has led one retired federal agent—who is too nervous to talk about it publicly—to speculate that, for years, terrorists have been exploiting our porous Mexican and Canadian borders to bring explosives into this country. The former agent says he believes the explosives are designed to be detonated simultaneously in all parts of the United States.

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Terrorists May Exploit Mexico Drug Cartels

Mexican drug cartels are strengthening and pose a risk that terrorists will exploit them to smuggle weapons of mass destruction across the U.S. border, according to a new report by Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Austin.

In his report, McCaul highlighted recent capture reports along the Mexican border that worry him: the discovery in South Texas’ Jim Hogg County of a jacket with patches depicting Arabic military badges, planes heading to a tower and the word “martyr,” the capture of a Hezbollah operative who bribed his way into Mexico and was smuggled across the border and the discovery of Iraqis in Brownsville this summer, among other detentions.

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CAFFERTY: And give them enough time and that’s probably what will happen. The report indicates Hezbollah members have already come here from Mexico, supporters of other Islamic radical groups like Hamas are currently active in Latin America. Not only are terrorists slipping into this country from Mexico but if they ever decide to smuggle in WMDs, well the drug cartels probably give them a hand for the right price and yet our government here in this country continues to do nothing.

Appears about 1/3 of the way down in the transcript

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