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| MANSFIELD |
Terror
From The North
by Laura Mansfield [author, analyst] 8/25/06 |
1997
would be subway plotter claimed asylum because Israel considered
him a terrorist
Wednesday
night, CNN’s Anderson Cooper presented a very important
segment about the vulnerability of the northern US border
with Canada. One of the men interviewed was a sheriff of
a northern border town, where the border crossing is on the “honor
system”. The sheriff told CNN that he was certain that
terrorists have come across the northern border.
The sheriff
of that small town was correct. Terrorists HAVE crossed the
border from Canada into the US. That’s a matter of
court records.
Contributor
Laura
Mansfield
Laura Mansfield is a writer and commentator on issues regarding the Middle
East, Islam, and Radical Islamic Terrorism.
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is a regular subject matter consultant for news agencies
in the UK, the US, Germany, Italy, and Israel. [go
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Some, like
convicted Millenium bomber Ahmed Ressam, were detected at the
border;
others like Ghazi Abu Mezer were more successful
at penetrating the United States – Abu Mezer came into
the US illegally from Canada not once but three times.
The case of Abu Mezer is particularly difficult to understand.
In June 1996, Abu Mezer was caught trying to sneak into the
United States from Canada; the US simply turned him around and
sent him back to Canada. But Abu Mezer was determined to get
into the United States. In January 1997, he was arrested again
after entering the US for the third time illegally. The US tried
to send him back to Canada, but the Canadians had had enough.
They refused to allow him to return to Canada.
According to an article on CNN Internactive, Abu Mezer was arrested,
and bond was set at $15,000, and then reduced to $5,000. He filed
for political asylum in the United States. He claimed that if
he was sent back to Israel he would be persecuted because the
Israeli government believed he was a terrorist, a member of Hamas.
The CNN article says
a hearing for Abu Mezer’s asylum
application was scheduled for June 23, but that he withdrew his
application on June 12. He agreed to leave the US by August 23,
1997.
Instead of leaving
the US, Abu Mezer moved to Brooklyn. Less than a month before
he was supposed to leave the US on the “honor
system”, Abu Mezer was arrested in connection with a plot
to attack New York City.
On July 31, 1997, Abu Mezer and accused co-conspirator Lafi
Khalil were found with a cache of explosives in their New York
apartment, and what officials described as a suicide note.
Both men were indicted
on August 28, 1997 on “charges
of conspiracy to kill a U.S. citizen, knowingly and intentionally
use and carry a firearm during and in relation to a crime of
violence; knowingly and intentionally possess counterfeit alien
registration receipt card.”
Abu Mezer was sentenced to life in prison and 10 years of supervised
release, and Khalil was sentenced to 36 months of imprisonment
and 3 years of supervised release.
Terrorism didn’t
take a vacation in New York City between the arrest of Omar
Abdul Rahman, and the September 11, 2001 attacks.
Radical Islamist terror had the subways of New York City in its
sights in 1997.
We spend a lot of time worrying about our unsecured southern
borders; but as Anderson Cooper reminded us tonight, terrorists
can and have slipped through our northern borders as well.
Ghazi Abu Mezer and his plot to bomb the New York City subway
system is proof of that. CRO
copyright
2006 Laura Mansfield
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