Honduran Official Says al-Qaida Recruiting

[SteveStromberg]

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras - It's a U.S. Homeland Security Department nightmare, and Honduras' most outspoken Cabinet member says it's happening: Al-Qaida operatives recruiting Central American gang members to carry out regional attacks and slip terrorists into the United States.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/ap/20041021/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/latin_gangs_terror

[350HP930]

Wow Steve, your paranoid delusions about hispanic immigrants and islamic terrorists have finally come full circle.

I am just suprised you are not also trying to connect this to kerry's campaign somehow.

The first few paragraphs of the story do seriously discount its legitimacy but I see that has not stopped you from posting it here like its relevant though. Even if I didn't see the following I would have been skeptical that it was BS anyways.

Yet U.S. and Central American officials say they have found no evidence supporting Honduran Security Minister Oscar Alvarez's allegations. And human rights groups accuse Alvarez of trumping terrorism reports to justify his crackdown on gangs, who in response have adopted terror-style tactics such as beheadings — 20 so far — and threatened the government.

Romulo Emiliani, a Roman Catholic bishop working closely with gang members in the northern city of San Pedro Sula, called the reports "an attempt to distract the public while the government puts thousands of youths in jail."