6 Iraqis detained on Mexican border

[camaro3232]

When I first read this I thought they could be terrorist. Who knows, It makes me wonder how many people make it through each day.

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0330MexicoIraqis30-ON.html

6 Iraqis detained on Mexican border

Associated Press
Mar. 30, 2005 06:45 AM

MONTERREY, Mexico - Four Iraqis were detained at an airport in the border city of Mexicali for allegedly carrying false passports, and two more were caught at a highway checkpoint, authorities said.

The four Iraqis arrived Friday at the airport in Mexicali, across from Calexico, California, on a flight from Mexico City and were detained after immigration officials discovered the Dutch passports they were carrying were false, said Abraham Sarabia, an attorney general spokesman in Baja California state, where Mexicali is located.

Alya Kiryakous Dawood Sako, an American citizen and the sister of one of the Iraqis, was also detained and questioned. Dawood was released after immigration officials determined her passport was legitimate but she was turned to immigration officials and is awaiting deportation, Sarabia said.
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Sarabia said immigration officials noticed the men became nervous during routine questioning and once in custody of federal authorities they confessed their true identities.

The men were carrying Dutch passports under the names of Richard Richters, who Mexican officials say is Yacer Yoser Hana; Mikel Leewen, who turned out to be Basam Kiryakous; Jan Pieter Drijfhout, who is Basam Toma Jou and Robert Schurtman, whose real name is Sabham Kamel.

"Once in custody they told authorities they intended to sneak into the United States," Sarabia said. "They said they started their journey in Greece, traveled to Spain and then to Mexico City."

The men were being held at a prison in Mexicali pending charges for using false documents.

Also Tuesday, soldiers detained two Iraqi men traveling on Greek passports at a roadside checkpoint near Mexicali.

The two men were traveling aboard a bus bound for Mexicali. However, the photo on one of the men's passport's had been altered; he was also held pending charges, while the other man was held pending deportation.

Mauricio Juarez, a spokesman with the Migration Institute, said none of the men appear on terrorist watch lists.

It was not clear whether the Iraqis were linked to the Chaldean Christians, who have a sizable community in Southern California and frequently try to enter the United States through Mexico, claiming they face persecution in Iraq.

[AlCzervik]

1. I bet if you are an Iraqi and you live in iraq you can't leave the country

i bet our government had forbid it so now a whole new business has opened up for smugglers and the bogus document sellers.

[alittlelark]

2. Were they sent from Guantanamo?

Really.... I wanna know.

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. two points

1.- the Chritian Chaldean Community DOES face persecution, and if their laywers are good, they will ask for asylum

2.- There are multiple layers of security in Mexico which are absent in the US.... for instance those troop manned checkpoints on roads.

the fact is... they do their job far better than our INS people and if need be (and it has been done) they can also seal the border

[dbeach]

4. Iraqis at the borders as Minuteman poject begins on 4/1/05

Semms a little strange cuz jr says he is aginst the vigilante's like the minutemen project..

I smella rover rat..scare the sheeple..maybe temp martial law out west...only temporary of course..

[camaro3232]

5. haha yea, I think the muniteman is a good thing though

[beevul]

10. WTF?

What is it with everyone calling the minutemen "vigilantes"?

That would require them to be taking the law into thier own hands, as opposed to calling in the Border Patrol upon sighting an illegal crossing. Calling the BP is the stated plan.


I don't get it.

[Krupskaya]

15. That's the first thing I though too.

"How conveeeeeeenient!"

[Algorem]

6. Why would they leave beautiful Iraq?

[RaleighNCDUer]

7. What's up with this?

"Alya Kiryakous Dawood Sako, an American citizen and the sister of one of the Iraqis, was also detained and questioned. Dawood was released after immigration officials determined her passport was legitimate but she was turned to immigration officials and is awaiting deportation..."

Do we generally deport American citizens? If she was abetting illegal immigration, she should be charged with that, not deported.

[Mojorabbit]

9. I wondered the same thing....

[RaleighNCDUer]

11. On re-reading, it looks like she's still in Mexican custody, awaiting

deportation to the US.

Maybe. But it's not real clear.

[beevul]

12. Yeah, thats odd. N/T

[Al-CIAda]

8. Didn't they float this same fucking story out twice before?

come on.

[dbeach]

13. It does smell ...oops sound Rather familiar..

All CIA Duh

OSS

OS wald
Os ama

9/11/01 to 3/11/04  {Madrid bombing}= 911 days

King George Bush the second = KGB II

[4dsc]

14. Not one caught at the Canadian border

Ed Schultz always has a good laugh about people mentioning the Mexico border because anybody can walk into the US from Cananda!!

So lets focus on Mexico, the smart ones are headed to Canada!! LMAO!!

[Bridget Burke]

16. Quite a few make it through every day.

Save your false innocence for somebody who will believe it. There's no evidence at all that these people are terrorists.

Also: You might want to clip your excerpt--something about copywrite....