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Alleged Terror Arrests in Mexico

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    Three men arrested in Mexico with alleged ties to Hezbollah.

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-- talk about we're trying to -- this one pretty close to home just south of the border we're getting reports out an -- authorities have arrested three alleged.

Has beloved members one of -- is an American citizen.

The news coming as America marks of course the anniversary of the September 11 attacks.

Count Joseph Lieberman's.

Worried.

Senator what do you make -- us.

Well and I don't have I have confirmation that it's really haven't heard it from the US government directly but.

I'm not surprised.

By this because look just a year or so ago.

We have evidence that the Iranian revolutionary guard corps was trying to work through -- Mexican drug cartel.

To send somebody -- to Washington to assassinate the ambassador.

From Saudi Arabia to Washington the this all goes back to Iran and Hezbollah was created.

But it Iranian regime.

There are now spreading out across the globe and ways that they didn't do up until about a year or two ago they were just.

Around Lebanon and and working against Israel so this.

This seems very credible to me I'm grateful to the Mexican authorities -- grabbing these guys and turning one of them was an American apparently over to US authorities.

You know what people worry about and I knew you were ahead of the curve on this this idea that we might have made it harder or four.

Bad guys to get here through the legal means of the way that bit -- -- 9/11 hijackers did.

But we still haven't cleared of this border issue where they can not easily but certainly with a lot less difficulty.

Get here via Mexico.

Yeah -- know you're absolutely right this is something -- I've been worried about for a long time because obviously.

A lot of people cross the border are from Mexico illegally mostly.

For purposes of -- -- America to get a job but.

The drug cartels and the so called coyotes who who -- will hold up people to take them over the border pretty good are debating.

Our defense is even though they've improved and to me it's been on a major worry which were.

Trying and our -- to to defend against that the terrorists would use -- the Mexican border.

And not any of the normal points of entry which are really -- hard now.

To get into American who are do -- damage and -- worry that these.

Hezbollah are related people who were apprehended and Mexico had exactly that in mind.

-- a long way from home sponsors they're a long way from home and it and it shows us an eleven years after 9/11 that though.

We have really decimated al-Qaeda central.

That.

And there are still other al-Qaeda cells around the world that are mostly self generated but.

That the number one source of terrorist activity he is Iran.

And it's spreading out across the globe close to our home so.

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