The Monitor
McALLEN, Texas -- A South African woman arrested in McAllen and deported three years ago had ties to a Pakistani terrorist group that smuggled foreign nationals across the border, the state’s top security official said.
In a speech Wednesday before the North Texas Crime Commission in Dallas, Texas Homeland Security Director Steve McCraw held up Farida Goolam Mahomed Ahmed as one of several terrorism suspects caught entering the United States through Mexico.
McCraw’s remarks come three years after several federal agencies vehemently denied Ahmed’s purported connections to terrorism.
But sources close to the investigation confirmed Thursday that prosecutors only charged Ahmed with immigration charges in exchange for her cooperation in larger terrorism cases.
Posted by tyne at September 17, 2007