Border UPDATE: Car Bombs by Hezbollah There says Myrick

By Cong. Sue Myrick Texas Insider Report: Washington D.C. In short a well-known international arms dealer was trying to orchestrate an arms-for-drugs deal.  On August 30th an indictment was handed down by the Southern District Court of New York that shows a connection between Hezbollah the proxy army of Iran and a designated terrorist organization and the drug cartels that violently plague the US-Mexico border.   The well-known international arms dealer was trying to orchestrate an arms-for-drugs deal where cocaine from FARC the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia who works with Mexican drug cartels to take cocaine into America would be traded for thousands of weapons housed by a Hezbollah operative in Mexico.  This most recent case brings up several questions:

1. Why would a member of Hezbollah be in Mexico?
2. Why would Hezbollah need thousands of weapons in Mexico?
3. Why are members of Hezbollah willing to work with FARC to exchange weapons for drugs?
4. If Hezbollah has guns in Mexico and wants drugs isnt it logical to assume that they are trading with more accessible Mexican drug cartels?

This is just the most recent incident where its clear that Hezbollah may have a presence in Mexico and along out Southern border.  There are more which have been ignored by the Administration and the Department of Homeland Security. On June 23 I sent a letter to the Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano asking her to establish a taskforce to investigate the presence of Hezbollah along the US-Mexico border.  The evidence is there:

• Hezbollahs cooperation with countries across South America.
• Highly sophisticated tunnels for transferring drugs across the US-Mexico border ones very similar to the tunnels dug by Hezbollah into Israel.
• The close relationship between Iranian President Ahmadinejad and Venezuelan President Chavez and
• The increase in Iranian nationals traveling through Venezuela to receive false documents which they use to cross into the United States. 
• Mexican officials raising concerns about Hezbollah operatives possibly training Mexican drug cartel enforcers in making car bombs. 

Former DEA Chief of Operations Michael Braun has even been quoted as saying:

Hezbollah relies on the same criminal weapons smugglers document traffickers and transportation experts as the drug cartels…They work together; they rely on the same shadow facilitators.  One way or another they are all connected."

Only a few weeks after I sent this letter it was reported that Jameel Nasr a Mexican national with ties to Hezbollah in Lebanon was entrusted with forming a base in South American and the United States to carry out operations against Israeli and Western targets".  Days later a cell phone detonated car bomb - the first of its kind reportedly used by Mexican drug cartels was deployed just across the US-Mexico border in Juarez.  On August 27 another car bomb exploded in a US-Mexico border state. These car bombs show an evolution in the tactics being used by the drug cartels and bear a strong resemblance to those employed by Hezbollah raising questions as to who trained them to do so.  Doesnt the protection of the American public deserve a taskforce to get answers? The primary role of the federal government is to protect its citizens.  Unfortunately the Administration continues to sit by idly while security threats go uninvestigated.  And thats all Im asking for a taskforce to find out whats going on along our Southern border. To date I have not received a response from the Department of Homeland Security as to if they will merely look into this.  How much more is it going to take?