So Where Are They?

FBI Director Bob Mueller testified before a congressional committee there are no al-Qaida sleeper cells in the U.S. That was the good news. The bad news is that such assurances stretch credulity into a credibility gap. We have also proved extraterrestrial life does not exist in the universe. ICE, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, fields 2,300 agents to hunt down illegal aliens in the hope of finding 80,000 criminal aliens and 320,000 "absconders," those who fled after being ordered deported. That's 400,000 people on the lam. But now we are asked to believe that al-Qaida types did not avail themselves of these routes and opportunities. How the FBI can be sure there is no member of a secret sleeper cell among the almost half a million foreigners who have taken a powder borders on dupability. Osama bin Laden's countless millions of radical Muslim admirers and thousands of would-be jihadis only make it as far as Europe, where new cells and arrests have become almost routine in the 25 European Union countries. But not the United States, where the ever vigilant ICE and FBI agents bar entry to those who wish us ill. Not so, according to a confidential government report leaked this week. Serious problems remain at airports, along the Mexican border, and with the asylum system. North Africans in France and Germany and South Asians in Britain, now European citizens, were recruited to fight as insurgents in Iraq. A number have already come back from killing Americans in Iraq and are now part of an underground terrorist network, recruiting others, setting up sleeper cells. http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2005/3/15/164613.shtml

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