Lawmaker urges feds to monitor Hezbollah in Mexico. Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrollah.
(AP) The presidential campaign has featured plenty of talk about terrorism in the Middle East, but one lawmaker is warning that the federal government is ignoring a growing Hezbollah presence in Mexico, with the Lebanese terror group increasingly joining forces with drug cartels. One report shows hundreds of thousands of Middle Easterners living in Mexico, and a small percentage of them may be radicals using routes established by drug networks to sneak into the U.S. The ties linking Mexico to Islamic terrorism were underscored earlier this year when an alleged Iranian operative plotted to assassinate a Saudi diplomat in Washington using a hired gun on loan from a Mexican drug cartel.
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U.S. Embassy in Mexico issued warning on Hezbollah in Chetumal and Belize. Sep 13, 2012 Still on the ongoing investigation, in its Wednesday edition, the Diario de Quinatana Roo reports that the US Embassy in Mexico had issued a warning about the presence of radical Islamic groups such as Hezbollah in Chetumal and Belize.
It cites information from Wikileaks that as far back as 2009, Hezbollah cells were using drug trafficking routes to reach the US. And according to Wikileaks, the US found evidence that the cells were operating in Belize and Chetumal. The report also says that Mexican President, Felipe Calderon, was concerned about the vulnerability of the Guatemala and Belize borders and arms trafficking in the region.