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Old 14th Jun 2005, 14:14
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alemaobaiano
 
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The saddest part is that some people will actually believe this sort of propoganda, and as Panama Jack says, they will be influenced by it.

In the so-called Muslim triangle, where the borders of Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay meet, a growing number of Arab-owned businesses are being forced to identify with the Palestinian cause.
So-called by whom? I've never heard it called that. I have heard quite a few names for that area, none of them complimentary, but the Muslim Triangle?

Pentagon officials have confirmed human smuggling rings in Latin America are attempting to sneak al-Qaida operatives into the U.S.
The same Pentagon officials that confirmed Iraqi WMDs?

Before the U.S.-led coalition attacked Iraq, the U.S. State Department offered congressional testimony that both al-Qaida and the Shiite terrorist group Hezbollah were taking firm hold in "America's backyard."
I thought that, apart from Cuba, the countries of Latin America were all democratic and sovereign nations?

Mueller said one route takes Middle Easterners to Brazil, where they assume false identities before entering Mexico and then crossing into the U.S. Bush administration officials have previously said al-Qaida could try to infiltrate the United States through the Mexican border.
Presumeably the FBI have shared this information with the Policia Federal?

More recently, al-Qaida has become deeply involved in cocaine and heroine trafficking, arms and uranium smuggling, counterfeiting CDs and DVDs and money-laundering activities in the tri-border region of Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay. The tri-border region is known as the heart of Islamic activity in Latin America.
Somebody obviously forgot to tell the Chinese mafia about this change in ownership.

Of growing concern to some U.S. officials is the way the terrorists south of the border might use lax immigration standards to slip into the U.S.
The arrogance is staggering. The US is the only country with effective immigration controls?

Tens of millions of Muslims, mostly of Arabic descent, live in Latin America.
Absolutely correct. The live in peace and get on with their lives here. They do not have disagreements with other religions nor do they impose their beliefs on others.
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