There are several issues going on here. One, how has he escaped the radar for so long, B, what does this say about the OTM's that cross the border every day, and three, will BMW change how it advertises it's cars?
Seriously, this piece illustrates vividly the lack of real tracking of Islamists and jihadists by not just local, but federal and international law enforcment agencies. The "unexpected resurfacing" of the outspoken cleric should have not been so unexpected as he had been deported from Canada, where he had the reputation, in Quebec as the "the controversial imam." Was there no one charged with watching where he went?
The problem with OTM, or "other than Mexican" aliens crossing the southern border is that there is no real monitoring of these non-Mexicans, and it is estimated that the number of OTM illegals may be as high as 20% of the total illegals crossing each year. That is a lot of Islamists and jihadists coming into the US. It is reported that when caught, the men of Middle Eastern descent act like Mexicans, sometimes learning to talk like a Mexican, and as they look like Mexicans, us white folk cannot tell the difference, so Border Patrol does not identify them as Arab. The scary part is, no one in power sees this as a problem.
You have to admire the choice of vehicles, most illegals are crammed 25 at a time into a mini-van or small truck with a canopy, and are easy to catch. I am sure the trunk of a Beemer is much more comfy, and with a good driver behind the wheel, it could give anyone chasing them a run for their money.
It is a good thing he was caught, but it was luck, not monitoring which affected the arrest. Sometimes we get the break.
From LA Times Jan 26
Said Jaziri, the former Imam of a Muslim congregation in Montreal, was hidden inside a car driven by a San Diego-area man who was pulled over by U.S. Border Patrol agents near an Indian casino east of San Diego. Jaziri allegedly paid a Tijuana-based smuggling group $5,000 to get him across the border near Tecate, saying he wanted to be taken to a “safe place anywhere in the U.S.”
The arrest marks the unexpected resurfacing of the 43-year-old cleric, whose protracted legal battle to avoid deportation drew headlines in Canada. A Tunisian immigrant, Jaziri was deported for failing to disclose a criminal conviction in France while applying for refugee status in the mid-1990s.
But Jaziri’s supporters said he was targeted for his fundamentalist views: Jaziri backed Sharia law for Canadian Muslims and led protests over the publication of the prophet Muhammad cartoons in a Danish newspaper in 2006.
Uh oh, another of those "misunderstanders of Islam" we keep hearing about.
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Seriously, this piece illustrates vividly the lack of real tracking of Islamists and jihadists by not just local, but federal and international law enforcment agencies. The "unexpected resurfacing" of the outspoken cleric should have not been so unexpected as he had been deported from Canada, where he had the reputation, in Quebec as the "the controversial imam." Was there no one charged with watching where he went?
The problem with OTM, or "other than Mexican" aliens crossing the southern border is that there is no real monitoring of these non-Mexicans, and it is estimated that the number of OTM illegals may be as high as 20% of the total illegals crossing each year. That is a lot of Islamists and jihadists coming into the US. It is reported that when caught, the men of Middle Eastern descent act like Mexicans, sometimes learning to talk like a Mexican, and as they look like Mexicans, us white folk cannot tell the difference, so Border Patrol does not identify them as Arab. The scary part is, no one in power sees this as a problem.
You have to admire the choice of vehicles, most illegals are crammed 25 at a time into a mini-van or small truck with a canopy, and are easy to catch. I am sure the trunk of a Beemer is much more comfy, and with a good driver behind the wheel, it could give anyone chasing them a run for their money.
It is a good thing he was caught, but it was luck, not monitoring which affected the arrest. Sometimes we get the break.
From LA Times Jan 26
Border authorities arrest controversial Muslim cleric east of San Diego
U.S. border authorities have arrested a controversial Muslim cleric who was deported from Canada to Tunisia three years ago and was caught earlier this month trying to sneak into California inside the trunk of a BMW, according to court documents.Said Jaziri, the former Imam of a Muslim congregation in Montreal, was hidden inside a car driven by a San Diego-area man who was pulled over by U.S. Border Patrol agents near an Indian casino east of San Diego. Jaziri allegedly paid a Tijuana-based smuggling group $5,000 to get him across the border near Tecate, saying he wanted to be taken to a “safe place anywhere in the U.S.”
The arrest marks the unexpected resurfacing of the 43-year-old cleric, whose protracted legal battle to avoid deportation drew headlines in Canada. A Tunisian immigrant, Jaziri was deported for failing to disclose a criminal conviction in France while applying for refugee status in the mid-1990s.
But Jaziri’s supporters said he was targeted for his fundamentalist views: Jaziri backed Sharia law for Canadian Muslims and led protests over the publication of the prophet Muhammad cartoons in a Danish newspaper in 2006.
Uh oh, another of those "misunderstanders of Islam" we keep hearing about.
Read it all
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