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Article: Al-Qaeda across the Americas: Islamic terrorist groups, including al-Qaeda, have established themselves throughout Latin America and, from there, are poised to infiltrate the United States. (World: Terrorist Network).
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- Insight on the News
- Article date:
- November 26, 2001
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Radical Muslim terrorist groups have established bases in Latin America and the Caribbean and are poised to direct their jihad at U.S. businesses, military personnel and civilians throughout the region, security experts and intelligence sources tell INSIGHT. These fundamentalists also may be positioned to stage more attacks against the U.S. mainland like those of Sept. 11.
Of particular concern is the possibility that terrorist "sleepers" already have used lax immigration procedures in countries such as Argentina to launder their identities and slip undetected into the United States. U.S. authorities in Buenos Aires frantically are trying to ascertain the ...