Worldnetdaily.com
While Washington is focused on finger-pointing over responsibility for 9-11, some of the 100 members of the Houston Task Force on Terrorism say Mexico is not fully cooperating on preventing the next jihadist attack on the U.S., a report by Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin finds.
The weekly online intelligence newsletter has learned from a source on the task force of fresh Mexico-based threats to NASA's Johnson Space Center, the George Bush International Airport and industrial targets linked to the oil and power industries.
Task-force members say agents from various state, federal and local agencies are, because of corruption and bureaucratic red tape in the Mexican government, forced to sift through thousands of tips connected to possible terrorist build-ups south of the border without the kind of guidance and cooperation they would expect from a neighbor and ally.
One task-force source said the Mexican security community, especially the Center for Investigations and National Security, is still mired with political corruption and that members in President Vicente Fox's own administration insist they should be informed about any high-priority intelligence before it is passed on to U.S. authorities.
President Fox's administration, sources say, is suppressing information that might reveal the actual size of anti-U.S. terror cells in the capital, Mexico City, and their connection to militant Muslim groups around Mexico and in many Latin American hotspots.
Posted by Suzanne at April 13, 2004