Chechan terrorists in US over Mexican border?

[mikehiggins]

Anyone hear any more about this one? Supposedly twenty five or so of them slipped across the border (like THAT is hard) in July and have disappeared into the general population.

Guess Bush spent all that money on some other part of the border.

[erniesam]

1. More fear propaganda

the chechen story was told in the Washington Times--

U.S. security officials are investigating a recent intelligence report that a group of 25 Chechen terrorists illegally entered the United States from Mexico in July.
http://washingtontimes.com/national/20041013-121643-5028r.htm

the Washington Times is always suspect--

For a decade and a half, the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Washington Times has pushed deeper and deeper into Washington's political mainstream. Though viewed initially as a quirky right-wing propaganda sheet, the newspaper now gets the respect that is afforded few other daily American newspapers. Given its strategic spot in Washington, many of its stories are picked up nationally; its columnists are regulars on TV talk shows; and C-SPAN's Brian Lamb often hoists the front page before a national cable audience.

More broadly, the Times' day-in-day-out treatment of issues shapes the parameters of journalistic attitudes in the nation's capital. Yet, since its founding in 1982, the paper has held itself above traditional journalistic principles of balance and objectivity.

http://www.consortiumnews.com/archive/moon4.html