Between 6,000 and 10,000 terrorists, capable of running drugs,
extortion, child sex rings, rape, assault and vicious murder; some in
‘uniform’ others conspicuously inconspicuous in their attempt to
‘fit-in’ to their communities – will that give you a reason to sit up
and listen? (In this case, read the rest of this post?) To continue,
experts believe that these terrorists have entrenched themselves in
Washington D.C. and in Los Angeles but have cells operating in Virginia,
Maryland and almost coast to coast.
The risk has recently magnified itself nearly one-hundred fold. This
vast army of terrorist cells, without a single leadership per se, but
each cell acting autonomously to create as much havoc and uncontrolled
violence in order to control through fear their local communities has a
new ally. Take the group already described and attach to it an
international drug cartel that is the singularly most violent cartel in
Mexico, the most heavily armed and the one most capable of coming
through on a promise of training these terrorist allies how to do
suburban/urban warfare.
Now, do you
really want that second
doughnut before you go out on the street or would you prefer to double
check your weapon, your shotgun, get your vest out of the bottom of the
closet and ask your wife if she renewed that gym membership you got last
Christmas? It only takes a minute to scan the vast majority of police
forces in the U.S. and see that to battle this type of terrorist on our
own turf, we are out equipped, physically we are beaten in a
heart-attack inducing sort of way, out gunned and pretty soon, perhaps
out trained if the urban guerrilla warfare training that was promised by
the Mexican cartel comes through. Add to the mix that officers are
operating under the most restrictive judicial environment in decades
while these terrorists are reaching ultimate heights of heinously
violent acts and recruiting actively in our schools for more soldiers.
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26 MS-13 gang members indicted for racketeering in 2010
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Who are the terrorists? None other than Mara Salvatrucha or MS-13 is
the El Salvadoran gang that reaches numbers nearing 10,000. The Mexican
drug cartel that has linked with MS-13 is Los Zetas led by former
Mexican Special Forces soldiers. There could not be a deadlier mix. The
U.S. Treasury Department has listed both MS 13 and Los Zetas as
Transnational Criminal Organizations which allows the U.S. to freeze
their accounts and to block any financial or business institution in the
U.S. from doing business with them.
The drug wars of Mexico that have harangued our police and
enforcement officials along the border for years is now fully
operational in dozens of America’s cities and towns. Presidential
candidate Romney wants to complete building the structural and
electronic wall between us and Mexico, a great idea that needs to be
done but it is also too little too late. As police officers¸ you need
to do a risk assessment of your own communities and learn what
connections your students have to MS 13, where your drugs are coming
from and then brace yourself for a full scale war for the hearts and
minds of our youth and for the safety of our towns.
Additional information on this report can be found through: The
Combating Terrorism Center at West Point and through the Langley
Intelligence Group Network LIGNET
www.lignet.com
