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Thursday, October 27, 2011

Islamic Plot to Bomb U.S. Embassy Reported in Mexico

From the Archives
More on the bomb plot that has been covered by Borderland Beat;
Is U.S. a target from Islamic Extremists via Mexico?

Reporter: Tom Ramstack
Source: (AHN)
An Islamic terrorist tried to detonate explosives to destroy the American embassy in Mexico City last year, according to Mexican media reports this week.

The reports drew denials from Mexico’s secretary of the navy.

Nevertheless, at least two Mexican media organizations published allegedly leaked government documents giving details of how the navy thwarted the attack.

The American media outlet CNN is quoting an unnamed State Department source saying Mexican police arrested a Somali citizen suspected of planning a terrorist attack in June 2010.

He was investigated for hiding explosives but was released because evidence against him was inconclusive.

The Mexican news media reports gave much more detail.

They said an internal Mexican navy document dated June 10, 2010, gave a list of incriminating items found in a hotel in Mexico City’s Roma neighborhood.

The items included a cardboard cylindrical container that held 22.7 kilograms of high explosives. It was sealed in paraffin wax along with two kinds of copper wrapped in plastic.

Navy agents also found four multi-channel radios, a frequency analyzer, a liter of nitric acid, six liters of pure glycerin, a plastic bag containing detonating cords and a kilogram of aluminum. Nearby was a copy of the Koran and a Muslim prayer rug.

The report quoted by the news media said police seized identification papers from a Somali man called Ahmed who was using the name Arturo Hernandez Hernandez.

Papers he carried bore the logo of the Islamic extremist group Al Shabaab, the news reports said. He entered Mexico from Guatemala.

The tip that alerted police to Ahmed’s presence originated with the Israeli embassy in Mexico City, according to the document quoted by the media.

“U.S. authorities informed us that intelligence officers assigned to the Embassy of Israel in Mexico are the ones who have followed the trail of the alleged terrorist of Somali nationality, named Ahmed, who allegedly belongs to an international armed Islamic extremist organization and of whom we attached a photograph and fake identification,” the document says.

“There is also information about the explosives that would be used to attack the Embassy of the United States of America in Mexico, among other targets, such as consulates,” the document says.

Ahmed’s presence at the Puebla Hotel in Mexico City beginning on June 7, 2010, was verified by surveillance cameras, the document says.

The document was marked “confidential” and carried the stamp of the Mexican government and the navy, the media reports said.

However, the Mexican secretary of the navy said the documents were “fake.”

He released a statement saying the navy “categorically rejects the authorship of the alleged report in possession of some media outlets.”

The statement also said, “The print seals and watermarks that appear on the document, as well as its format, do not correspond to the ones utilized by this federal government agency.”

U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives officials in Washington said they were unaware of any plot to blow up the American embassy in Mexico City.

If the media reports are true, they appear to verify recent statements at congressional hearings by Homeland Security Department officials who said Islamic terrorists might be using Mexico as a back door for attacks against the United States.

The media report comes only days after the Obama administration announced the arrest of an American Muslim accused of trying to kill the Saudi ambassador to the United States.

The Justice Department says he was captured after trying to hire members of a Mexican drug cartel to kill the ambassador with a bomb at a Washington restaurant.

President Barack Obama blamed the Iranian government for sponsoring the planned bombing. He said the plot continued a pattern of “dangerous and reckless behavior” by the Iranians.

The Iranian government denies any involvement.



This was a review of events given by Notocias MVS with Caremn Aristegui:

  1.  On June 9, 2010, the Semar reported an operation in Merida 12, Colonia Roma. This is what authorities reported of the operation; "Over 20 kilograms of high explosive were recovered. The material is used in demolition and when applied directly to structures the velocity of the detonation along with the density of the blast is sufficient to demolish through steel." That night Televisa showed footage of the place and showed the materials described by the Navy.
  2. On June 10, 2010 SIEDO corrects the Navy and reports: "the official opinion is that chemicals found at the scene which included glycerin, nitric acid and paraffin ... do not correspond to any type of explosive material and in regards to the people detained, they were not under arrest, they were merely people presented."
  3. In June 2010, Dolia Estévez, of MVS Mexican News confirms, with her sources in Washington that the original version of the Navy regarding the explosives was true and that the DEA was involved in the matter.
  4. The 26, 30 and 31 of August 2010, Semar answers three requests for information by the media pursuant to the Transparency of Law. On the 26th they says that since the SIEDO determined that the substances that were seized were not found to be any type of explosive material, Semar determines that their position is confirmation of the matter in question." On the 30th, they responded that "in their examination of the material using molecular detection equipment which has an effectively accuracy of 99.00% in determining explosives, the material examined in this specific case tested positive for explosives." Then on August 31 they said: "... Semar did not conduct an examination of the material since they do not posses any scientific means of examining chemicals or provide any conclusions to that end." They stress that SIEDO did determine that the material was in fact "paraffin, glycerin and nitric acid."
  5. On June 17 the official website of the Navy removed the statement of the investigation 141/2010 where they revealed the discovery of the explosives.
  6. On June 22, 2010 the Navy again gives access to their unchanged statement providing a description of explosive materials.
  7. On August 31, 2010, PGR (The Attorney General Office) officially refuses to provide information on the matter claiming that it is of confidential information ... and may remain as such until a period of 12 years."
  8. On October 13, 2011 the blog Borderland Beat that reports on the Mexican Cartel Drug War, that appear to be retired members of intelligence services in the United States, released a confidential document that is said to be originated by Semar entitled "Operation Salim." Dolia Estevez advises that it appears to be an official looking document, as well as the official seals and security marks on the paper. The document provides details of the operation, its purpose and what they found. It states: "what was found inside the cardboard box that was taped with a brown sticker bearing the logo of the armed Islamic extremist group Al-Shabab." It also reports that: "U.S. officials informed us that intelligence officers assigned to the Embassy of Israel in Mexico are the ones who have been tracking the alleged terrorist named Amhed who is said to be a Somali national. He allegedly belongs to the international armed Islamic extremist organization and whose photograph and a copy of his Mexican credentials has been falsified. There is also information that the explosives would be used to attack targets against the United States Embassy in Mexico, and other U.S. targets such as consulates."
  9. On October 18, 2011. Semar rejects "categorically the authenticity of the documents." It claims that the documents are not legitimate however they say that they are not in any position to discuss the matter of the content."
  10. On October 18 and 19 the journalist Joaquin Lopez Doriga of Millennium and Televisa says that the confidential document "Operation Salim" was leaked by the Government of the United States.
  11. On June 20, 2010, journalist Jorge Alejandro Medellin published in the "Millennium Weekly" a report: "DEA and the Mexican Marines: how to hunt a terrorist" whose content coincides with the document attributed to the Navy. The story has never been officially rejected by the Mexican government. In the last paragraph it reads: "The man that the Mexican Marines and the DEA were looking for in the house of Mérida 12 had left the place three weeks before. In his room the fourth Special Forces of the Navy of Mexico found a copy of the Koran."
  12. On September 9, 2011 Guillermo Valdés of CISEN said: "In Mexico some groups still operate that believe in violence as an instrument of change. We can never rule out the risk of the real possibility of the presence of Islamic terrorism in our country."
  13. On October 20, 2011. MVS reporter Dolia Estevez said that according to her sources in the United States, their position is that it is very possible that the confidential report "Operation Salim" may in fact not be a false document.
Author's Note: My source that provided me the confidential Mexican Naval documents, who went by the name of "Pedro" in conversations I had with him through email and telephone, also chose to speak with Dolia Estevez. In addition to the Naval documents that were exclusive and posted by BB, he also provided me with many other classified documents, photographs and information, which I still possess. A couple of days ago "Pedro" also provided Dolia with further documents related to the Ahmed person.

19 comments:

  1. Shit!

    Hope all of you who have your heads burried in the sand, wake up. This is not a conspiracy theory, this is real and if we ignore it, it will become tragic, again. Thank you BB, for bringing this to the forefront and leading the way in exposing the cover up, you don't read this kind of information in the US main stream media, why?

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  2. It's just a short matter of time before the United States and it's allies get involved militarily in Mexico. Its become a narco terrorist country.

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  3. Leave him in a mexican jail. Sure "arturo" would like it

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  4. October 27, 2011 10:23 PM Because it is bullshit 100%

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  5. Jesse Ventura should be covering these kind of stories in Mexico on his Conspiracy Theories TV Show. Very interesting and scary stuff. Our u.s. Intelligence community really needs to get involved in Mexico.

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  6. Can't wait to see this on the "foxnews"

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  7. And the chicken hawks keep inventing bullshit to justify more military presence south of the border.... Sure folks..

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  8. As a chicken hawk 'watcher' that statement is bullshit. We don't have 'Enough military presence, ON or North of the Border'. You would be naive or just stupid to Not think that Islamic terrorist would use Mexico as an easy route to the U.S. Always be suspicious of anyone who will NOT Eat chicharrones.

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  9. @ 10:23
    The problem with society is gullibal sheeple like you, it's as if the lights on and no one's home, This is just another planted propaganda piece by your cia cartel thugs, They never stop beating the war drums, the last few propaganda pieces like this one are designed to get you use to the idea that the U.S needs to be tied up in another war in another country. The government does not have the will of the people so they resort to making things up and hoping your stupid enough to swallow the bait without thinking, the sad truth is that MOST people don't think, you should try it for once. Our sons and daughters dying without real purpose in these endless wars that only profit the big war machine and oil companies is disgusting. But THEY told you it was needed, And you like a brainless moron didn't stop to check the facts, for one AL QUEDA is a creation and a tool of the cia to keep you sheeple in fear. Why do all these big bad evil
    "terrorists" turn out to have been trained, funded and armed by the cia spooks? Who you ask? For starters, Saddam Hussein, Osama bin laden, Gaddaffi, USE YOUR STINKING BRAIN FOR ONCE! THE ONLY REASON MY COUNTRY WANTS TO GO INTO YOUR COUNTRY IS TO TAKE OVER THE MULTIBILLION DRUG INDUSTRY, EVERYWHERE IN THE WORLD WE DO THIS, WE NOW CONTROL THE HEROIN TRADE THANKS TO OUR "INTERVENTION" IN AFGHANISTAN, WE NOW CONTROL ALL OF IRAQS OIL, AND GOLD, WE NOW CONTROL ALL OF LIBYAS OIL AND
    GOLD, BUT THATS NOT ENOUGH! WE WANT IRANS, AND SYRIAS AND YOURS MEXICO, AND JUST THINK, NONE OF IT WOULD HAVE BEEN POSSIBLE WITHOUT OUR CREATION CALLED AL QUEDA, WE HAD TO SACRIFICE SOME COLLATERAL DAMAGE ON 9/11 TO MAKE YOU GO ALONG WITH OUR PLAN, ( We'll keep you safe, wink wink) OUR INSIDE JOB IS WELL WORTH THE TRILLIONS WE HAVE PROFITED SO FAR, AND MORE TO COME! WE HAVE SOLD GUNS AND PROPPED UP THE SINALOA CARTEL FOR ONE REASON, ONCE THEY DO MOST OF THE DIRTY WORK AND CONSOLDATE THE MARKET, WE WILL STEP IN AND TAKE IT FROM THEM, HA HA HA HA HAA! THE GENIUS PART OF OUR WHOLE PLAN IS THAT YOUR TO STUPID TO LOOK AT THE FACTS....NOW KEEP BELIEVING EVERYTHING WE TELL YOU LITTLE SHEEPIE.

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  10. 7 42 of the trillions "you" have profited how much is your bank account. This sheep wants to know. Didn't think a billionaire would b here posting his secrets. I'm guessing your in iraq taking oil and gold? Seems so easy to male billions, if this guy who's a idiot is I prob can. Take a deep breath and relax... your including yourself in somthing your not involved in. I'm sure the gov is screwing us, and will keep doing it. You are also a sheep

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  11. The last post was the best. You were the only poster with a coherent message.

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  12. LOL, more CIA spooks milking this false opp for all its worth.
    Tom ramstack? sounds like a gay porn star.

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  13. hahahaha we control iraqi oil? talk about someone completely ignorant of facts. (no wink wink)

    libs say bush went for iol...so WTF...wheres my fucking oil?
    oh yea, China and India already made deals for the oil of iraq, damn hate it when we forget to take care of business

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  14. Jesse Ventura and his show were created by the elites to passify the masses. Something had to be done because the conspiracy theory card is being played out right now. Take everything you hear and read with a grain of salt. Scary, but worth the opinions, views, ideas, and skeptisism of everyone who reads into it.

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  15. you spelled el spaceio wrong shill.

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  16. 7:42 AM. Awesome. Got some spare of what u been smokin.

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  17. @ 7:40
    Sorry, I don't use drugs or even consume alcohol, You already have what I got, that is a brain, all you have to do is use it, and doing drugs isn't using your brain for starters...As far as the poster wondering why he's not getting lower costs because of the oil UNCLE SAM HAS AQUIRED BY ARMED ROBBERY Is because doing that would defeat tje purpose of taking it in the first place...think about it..if I got a product to sell that I had aquired for free, Why would I sell it to you for less? If I sell it for " going rate " I would be making twice the profit or more! And now you know why the big oil companies are making record profits in tens of billions...Oh, but THEY told you it was because of supply and demand, which is partly true, they control the supply through their buddies called the OPEC cartel, and as they choke off supply it causes the price to be artificially high, as a matter of fact gas costs 17¢ a gallon in the middle east, Why not here? They'll give you a thousand excuses and all lies but the bottom reason is GREED and because THEY CAN......

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  18. We will always have those that believe every thing is a conspiracy or a C I A plot. Very few times they are correct. I would say most don,t understand how intelligence works.

    For instance, The New York Times has a reputation of printing sensitive information, October 25th BB ran a N Y Times story about the U.S. infiltrates drug cartels. Is this the N Y Times printing sensitive information or is this a plant because we don't have any infiltrates but we want them to think we do. my guess would be the truth is some where in between but closer to the latter.

    The assassination plot against the Saudi Arabian ambassador [BB October 27th]seemed a little far fetched, if we had that type of intelligence we would not advertise it. This Embassy bombing story was keep RELATIVELY quiet for over a year, this would make me think there is something to this story.

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