Arabic diary found near AZ border

[AZTOY]

COMING TO AMERICA
Arabic diary found near border
Couple discovers book in backpack dropped on their property

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Posted: February 13, 2003
5:00 p.m. Eastern



© 2003 WorldNetDaily.com

An Arizona couple has discovered a diary written in Arabic in a backpack apparently dropped on their property by an illegal alien entering the U.S., reports the Sierra Vista Herald Review.

According to the report, Walter Kolbe was chasing some wild animals away from his home last week when he stumbled upon the backpack – not an unusual occurrence on his property since it includes a path routinely used by illegal aliens coming from Mexico. He brought it home but did not immediately open it.

After going away for the weekend, Kolbe's wife, May, looked in the backpack and discovered the diary.

"I found it (the backpack) about a hundred yards from the house, near a barbed-wire fence," Mr. Kolbe told the Herald Review. "I was just going to throw it in the trash."

According to Mrs. Kolbe, most of the writing was in Arabic, though there was some Spanish writing in it as well.

Looking through the small book, according to the report, she noticed two names and telephone numbers – one listing in Canada and the other Iran – and confirmed the beginning numbers were the international codes for those two countries.

Mr. Kolbe alerted the FBI, which sent an agent to pick up the diary and backpack on Tuesday.

Kolbe is the brother of Rep. Jim Kolbe, R-Ariz., in whose congressional district he lives.

The Kolbes said they wonder how many Middle Eastern people are coming into the United States illegally, the Herald Review reported.

Rob Daniels, a spokesman for the U.S. Border Patrol's Tucson Sector, told the paper he is not allowed to talk about the number of non-Mexicans his agency detains.

"We can't get into specifics about the number," Daniels said.

According to the report, a spokesman for the U.S. Border Patrol in Washington, D.C., said 99.4 percent of the 955,310 people apprehended by the agency from Oct. 1, 2001, through Sept. 30, 2002, were from the Americas, which includes Canada, Mexico and other Central and South American nations. The remainder comes from 140 countries.

"Because of 9-11 there has been restrictions and guidelines when talking about special-interest countries," the spokesman told the paper.

The decision not to be specific about how many people come from the Middle East is a directive of the Joint Terrorism Task Force, he said.

As WorldNetDaily reported in 2001, there have been increasing numbers of Arabs coming into the U.S. via Mexico. Border Patrol spokesperson Rene Noriega told WND that the number of other-than-Mexican detentions has grown by 42 percent. Most of the non-Mexican migrants are from El Salvador and other parts of Central America, she said, but added that agents have picked up people from all over the world, including the former Soviet Union, Asia and the Middle East.

According to the San Diego Union-Tribune, hours after the 9-11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, an anonymous caller led Mexican immigration agents to 41 undocumented Iraqis waiting to cross into the United States.

This afternoon, reports the Associated Press, Mexican authorities detained six Iraqi citizens who they believe intended to cross into the United States from Tijuana.

The five men and one woman claimed to be German citizens when they arrived at the Tijuana airport Tuesday night on a flight from Mexico City.

Immigration authorities sent the Iraqis back to Mexico City for questioning, according to the AP report.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=31027
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Mexican Authorities Detain Iraqi Citizens at Border

Thursday, February 13, 2003

TIJUANA, Mexico — Mexican authorities have detained six Iraqi citizens who they believe intended to cross into the United States from Tijuana

The five men and one woman claimed to be German citizens when they arrived at the Tijuana airport Tuesday night on a flight from Mexico City.

Immigration authorities sent the Iraqis back to Mexico City for questioning.

Officials were trying to determine whether the Iraqis might be Chaldean Christians, a group which claims it faces persecution in Iraq.

Chaldean Christians often seek U.S. asylum, but many say these requests have been complicated by security concerns in the United States.

Mexican authorities were investigating whether the Iraqis might have violated Mexican immigration laws.

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HOMELAND WANT? :banghead:

 

[Double Naught Spy]

You have to wonder if Mrs. Kolbe actually knows what Arabic writing looks like or not.

"Arabic belongs to the language-family commonly called Semitic. Other principal members of the family are Ugaritic and Accadian (both now long dead), Aramaic (surviving only in vestigial form), Hebrew, and the Semitic languages of Ethiopia (Tigre, Tigrina, Amharic, and the church language Geez).
http://www.wm.edu/aata/whyarabic.html

You also have to wonder why upon finding a backpack that obviously was not empty that the Kolbe's did not inspect it sooner. That seems rather odd.

 

[ahenry]

Just as an FYI, OTM’s (Other Than Mexicans) are a lot more common at the border than you would expect.

 

[Blackhawk]

You have to wonder if Mrs. Kolbe actually knows what Arabic writing looks like or not.

If she's watched any news in the last 18 months, she probably has. It's pretty distinctive.

 

[Double Naught Spy]

It is distinctive from our western style of letters, but not from similar-related languages. It is sort of like people who see Japanese, Korean, and Chinese writing and don't know the difference between. They are distinctive, but just because they don't look like our writing doesn't mean they they are all the same thing.

 

[Airwolf]

According to the report, a spokesman for the U.S. Border Patrol in Washington, D.C., said 99.4 percent of the 955,310 people apprehended by the agency from Oct. 1, 2001, through Sept. 30, 2002, were from the Americas, which includes Canada, Mexico and other Central and South American nations. The remainder comes from 140 countries.

Excuse me? Nearly ONE MILLION people in ONE YEAR?!?!





That what they CAUGHT. God only knows how many got through, but I'd guess from all the reports we've seen than it's a hell of a lot more than got caught.

I am in complete shock.

And there are still people out there that are trying to pretend that this isn't a problem?

:banghead:

 

[TallPine]

You also have to wonder why upon finding a backpack that obviously was not empty that the Kolbe's did not inspect it sooner. That seems rather odd.

They probably find stuff like that all the time on their property. They probably also have other things to do than go through stuff left on their property.

 

[Waitone]

<Saracasm On>

Can't be. How can there possibly be illegal aliens coming across the border? Just not possible. The border officials tell us the vast majority of their detainees are from this hemisphere. See. . . no problem.

<Saracasm Off>

Arabic writing is quite distinctive. There should be no problem identifying the language or its contents. It is my opinion the most dangerous badguys coming into the US will do so across the border where there are no guard shacks.

I pity the federal politicians who can be demonstrated as having obstructed border enforcement if there should unfortunately be a terror event traced to an unincumbered border crossing.

 

[Airwolf]

I pity the federal politicians who can be demonstrated as having obstructed border enforcement if there should unfortunately be a terror event traced to an unincumbered border crossing.

A tall tree and a short rope comes to mind.....

 

[Poodleshooter]

Mexican authorities were investigating whether the Iraqis might have violated Mexican immigration laws.

Does anyone else find the phrase "Mexican immigration laws" entertaining? Is immigration really a big problem for them?