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Fort Huachuca Was Targeted for Attack
Agence France-Presse | November 26, 2007

Islamic radicals from Iraq and Afghanistan planned a terrorist attack on a U.S. intelligence center that trains military interrogators for Guantanamo Bay and other detention centers, The Washington Times reported Nov. 26.

Citing confidential law enforcement documents, the newpaper said the plot targeted Fort Huachuca, an Army base located next to the Arizona town of Sierra Vista, about 15 miles north of the U.S.-Mexican boder.

Last May, the base was forced to beef up security measures after commanders were warned that possibly as many as 60 Afghan and Iraqi radicals had been smuggled into the United States through underground tunnels built and manned by Mexican drug cartels, the report said.

The documents said the radicals had high-powered weapons to attack the base, the Times said. A Federal Bureau of Investigation advisory said some of the operatives had been already smuggled into the United States, while the rest remained outside the country.

Each Middle Easterner paid Mexican cartels 20,000 dollars "or the equivalent in weapons" for assistance in smuggling them through tunnels that the cartel control along the U.S.-Mexican border, the newspaper said, citing the FBI advisory.

Many of these tunnels begin in northern Mexico and end in warehouses in Laredo, Texas, and in Arizona.



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