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T. J. Bonner, president of the National Border Patrol Council, adds, "Even if a terrorist is a one-in-a-million occurrence, with several million people coming into the country every year, very soon they reach that critical mass necessary to carry out another attack on the magnitude of September 11th. This is totally unacceptable from the standpoint of homeland security and national security. We have to gain control of our borders."

"We all know that drug dealers know, the terrorists know, that our borders are a sieve," Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger, D-Md., has said.

"...As the specter of new and dangerous outside threats became more real to the public on 9-11, most Americans also became more concerned that rampant, uncontrolled immigration could be a catalyst for new attacks," I wrote in my 2004 book, Illegals: The Imminent Threat Posed by Our Unsecured U.S.-Mexico Border. "Al-Qaeda's terrorists, as well as other Middle Eastern extremist groups, are using the porous Mexico border as an easy entrance route into the United States."

Our Islamic enemies may not be very original, but they are certainly competent enough to adopt techniques that work. Using the media to do recon work is a tried and true method of espionage, and it was just a matter of time before our Islamic enemies got around to it.

It appears as though al-Jazeera has become the Xinhua of al-Qaeda. Let's hope Washington is paying attention.

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Jon E. Dougherty is author of Illegals: The Imminent Threat Posed by our Unsecured U.S.-Mexico Border, and founder/editor of Voices Magazine.

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Note -- The opinions expressed in this column are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the opinions, views, and/or philosophy of GOPUSA.

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