I find it very odd that Mexican tourists would be in Egypt. Now that ISIS has made inroads in Egypt it is a very dangerous place for any tourist to be. I have seen reports in the past about Mexican drug cartels working in collaboration with ISIS. I wonder if this was a joint ISIS/Mexican drug cartel operation (both groups use similar tactics such as beheadings). Of course they could be just innocent tourists who naively entered a restricted area.
I find it very odd that Mexican tourists would be in Egypt. Now that ISIS has made inroads in Egypt it is a very dangerous place for any tourist to be. I have seen reports in the past about Mexican drug cartels working in collaboration with ISIS. I wonder if this was a joint ISIS/Mexican drug cartel operation (both groups use similar tactics such as beheadings). Of course they could be just innocent tourists who naively entered a restricted area.
I have seen reports in the past about Mexican drug cartels working in collaboration with ISIS
Hi KEVINinTO
Could you please link to those reports?
Thank you,
Tricia
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/14/w...-accidentally-kill-mexican-tourists.html?_r=0
Sept 13, 15
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The tourists were traveling in a group of four sport utility vehicles in an area roughly 30 miles from Bahariya Oasis, security officials said. The oasis, a verdant desert outpost, is about 230 miles south of Cairo, and is a popular stop for groups on desert tours.
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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-34241680
"20 minutes ago"
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killed 12 people, including Mexican tourists,
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The tourists were travelling in four vehicles that entered a restricted zone
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Ten Mexicans and Egyptians were also injured and are being treated in a local hospital.
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Odd that their drivers would take them there? Tour drivers would normally know where to go.
The tourists were reportedly en route to the El-Wahat el Bahariya oasis, which is a popular tourist destination listed on several travel sites.
I'm not Kevin, but, there are several reports of such activity. Here is just one:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/04/opinion/isis-deep-in-the-heart-of-texas.html?_r=0
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The site continued, “ISIS may be working to infiltrate’ the U.S. with the aid of transnational drug cartels, he said, citing the violent Mexican criminal gang MS-13 as a highly likely candidate for the partnership.”
WND was not the only one to hype the cartel line. Representative Ted Poe of Texas said in August that there was interaction between ISIS and Mexican drug cartels and that they were “talking to each other.”
Fox News “reported” Friday on a so-called “situational awareness” bulletin sent out by the Texas Department of Public Safety and obtained by the “news” network. According to Fox, the bulletin read, “A review of ISIS social media messaging during the week ending August 26 shows that militants are expressing an increased interest in the notion that they could clandestinely infiltrate the southwest border of U.S., for terror attack.”
I'm not Kevin, but, there are several reports of such activity. Here is just one:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/04/opinion/isis-deep-in-the-heart-of-texas.html?_r=0
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The site continued, ISIS may be working to infiltrate the U.S. with the aid of transnational drug cartels, he said, citing the violent Mexican criminal gang MS-13 as a highly likely candidate for the partnership.
WND was not the only one to hype the cartel line. Representative Ted Poe of Texas said in August that there was interaction between ISIS and Mexican drug cartels and that they were talking to each other.
Fox News reported Friday on a so-called situational awareness bulletin sent out by the Texas Department of Public Safety and obtained by the news network. According to Fox, the bulletin read, A review of ISIS social media messaging during the week ending August 26 shows that militants are expressing an increased interest in the notion that they could clandestinely infiltrate the southwest border of U.S., for terror attack.
The National Counterterrorism Center director, Matthew Olsen, said that while ISIS did pose significant threat to us it was not Al Qaeda pre-9/11 and we have no credible information that ISIS is planning to attack the United States.
The ISIS-at-the-border hype appears to simply be an attempt to kill two birds with one stone be pro-war and anti-immigration at the same time.