Hector lives in a wooden shack on the outskirts of Juarez, Mexico,
four miles from the town of El Paso, Texas. He drives an old, blue and
rusty Chevrolet pick-up truck that looks like many other old blue and
rusty Chevrolet pick-up trucks in Mexico. You’ll see Hector wearing
faded blue jeans and a long sleeve blue work shirt. Both are dirty and
frayed. His straw hat was once white, but now a dark beige with
several sweat-stain hatband rings. Mr. Lopez is a small man, 5′6″ in
height and weighs 143 pounds. He walks with a slight limp, and holds
his hat in one hand when he bows shyly to say “Si Senor”. Hector, like
many Mexican men, has grown a mustache. We see lots of “Hectors”
these days, and we avert our eyes from them because they are, well,
poor.
One morning Hector drives to a desolate spot overlooking the Rio
Grande, River. He walks to the water’s edge and looks across the 70
foot wide stream, enters the river and dog-paddles across with the end
of a rope in his mouth. Standing on a Texas rancher’s soil, and with no
one in sight for miles, Hector pulls the rope which is wrapped-around a
55 gallon drum and easily pulls the floating barrel over to him. He
removes the lid and dumps a 3 foot tall, 88 pound metal object into the
sandy soil at his feet. Using his bare hands, Hector covers the object,
then swims back to the Mexican side of the river, pulling the empty
barrel back with him. He discards the empty drum in an old abandoned
tar paper plant junk yard, and drives to the Avenue of the Americas.
Hector shows the border guard his Matricula Consular ID card, speaks a
few words in Spanish to his fellow Mexican, and drives into the City of El
Paso. Hector eases the old Chevy up Airway Boulevard, turns East on
Montana, and after several miles, turns south on Ranch Road and down
to the Rio Grande, River. He stops hear the spot where he stood an
hour earlier, uncovers the object, and places it on the front passenger
seat of his truck. Hector proceeds to drive up Ranch Road, headed for
the United States Army Post of Fort Bliss.
The “object” Hector has next to him on the front seat is a 2 kiloton
Russian nuclear warhead, stolen (along with 2 others) by a former
Russian rocket-army colonel following the break-up of the Soviet Union.
This particular nuclear device was purchased for 50 million Saudi-Arabia
oil dollars, sent to Mexico by cargo freighter, and off-loaded to a barren
Mexican shoreline onboard a rubber Zodiac boat.
Hector’s real name is Mohammed Saad, a Jordanian born former
Fedayheen soldier who killed 67 Israeli’s in the Gaza over a period of 18
months. “Mohammed” earned his undergraduate degree in engineering
from Purdue University in Indiana. He speaks 4 languages fluently,
including Spanish, and learned and adopted the shy mannerisms of a
“peon”. He is a clever, bloodthirsty killer.
“Hector” (Mohammed) obtained his Matricula Consular card for twenty
five dollars and a forged Catholic Baptismal Certificate. He could use his
Consular card to get an American driver’s license in 16 states.
Hector “hung out” in Juarez for 3 weeks, observing, learning
mannerisms and “quirks” of the poor Mexican people while he awaited
the arrival of his bomb on a Cessna 172 single engine airplane that
delivered it on a dirt road close to his shack. The bomb was, like him,
offloaded from an Iberian registered freighter somewhere between
Texas and the Yucatan Penninsula.
Hector’s “contact” is an old friend named Bakari Salihan, who lives
extremely well and dresses impeccably as a commercial real-estate
developer in El Paso, Texas. They communicate via small notices in the
Catholic section of the newspaper. Bakari is head of a new Islamic
mosque in El Paso, and gets plenty of cash from The Muslim
Brotherhood to front his efforts for “Allah”.

Keep an eye out for Hector and Bakari. They are here.

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By CARLOTTA GALL
Published: March 4, 2007
KABUL, Afghanistan, March 4 — American troops opened fire on a highway filled with civilian cars and bystanders today, American and Afghan officials said, in an incident that the Americans said left 16 civilians dead and 24 wounded as they fled the scene of a suicide car bombing in eastern Afghanistan. One American was also wounded.

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Afghans shouted anti-American slogans Sunday to protest the deaths of civilians.

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A suicide car bombing was part of the violence, the United States military said.
The shooting set off demonstrations, with local people blocking the highway, the main road east from the town of Jalalabad to the border with Pakistan.

And there were differences in some of the accounts of the incident, with the Americans saying that the civilians were caught in crossfire between the troops and militants, and Afghan witnesses and some authorities blaming the Americans for indiscriminately shooting at civilian vehicles in anger after the explosion.

The United States military said the unit came under fire after a suicide bomber detonated his explosive-laden car near their convoy “as part of a complex ambush involving enemy small-arms fire from several directions.”

The marines, who were on patrol near Jalalabad airfield, returned fire, and the civilians were killed and wounded in the crossfire during the battle, according to a statement from the military press office at Bagram airbase near Kabul.

“We regret the death of innocent Afghan citizens as a result of the Taliban extremists’ cowardly act,” Lt. Col. David Accetta, a military spokesman, said in the statement. “Once again, the terrorists demonstrated their blatant disregard for human life by attacking coalition forces in a populated area, knowing full well that innocent Afghans would be killed and wounded in the attack.”

Yet some of the wounded interviewed in the hospital by news agencies said the only shooting came from the American troops. A hospital official, who asked not to be named, said all the wounded were suffering from bullet wounds and not shrapnel from the bomb explosion.

Hundreds of Afghans blocked the road and threw rocks at police officers in protest afterward, with some demonstrators shouting “Death to America! Death to Karzai,” a reference to President Hamid Karzai, The Associated Press reported.

The shooting is a setback for American forces in Afghanistan, who have been working to contain the continuing insurgent attacks, in particular roadside bombs and suicide attacks, and win the support of the people with reconstruction and development projects. Deadly riots shook Kabul last May after American troops were involved in a fatal car crash and then opened fire on the crowd.

Among the dead this morning were a woman and two children in their early teens, said Dr. Ajmal Pardez, the provincial director of health, speaking by telephone from the Jalalabad city hospital. He said the hospital received 10 dead and 25 wounded people from the incident, with four people in critical condition, he said.

After the suicide attack, the American soldiers treated every car and person along the highway as a potential attacker, though none of the people showed hostile intent, Muhammad Khan Katawazi, the district chief of Shinwar, told The Associated Press.

“They were firing everywhere, and they even opened fire on 14 to 15 vehicles passing on the highway,” said Tur Gul, 38, who was standing on the roadside by a gas station and was shot twice in his right hand. “They opened fire on everybody, the ones inside the vehicles and the ones on foot.”

Some of the wounded interviewed by The Associated Press said the soldiers opened fire indiscriminately on passing cars and pedestrians on the busy main road.

“When we parked our vehicle, when they passed us, they opened fire on our vehicle,” said 15-year-old Mohammad Ishaq, who was hit by two bullets, in his left arm and his right ear. “It was a convoy of three American Humvees. All three Humvees were firing around.”

In other fighting, two British soldiers were killed on Saturday in southern Afghanistan, the British Defense Ministry said today. The men were involved in heavy fighting that has raged for three days in the town of Sangin, said Col. Tom Collins, a NATO spokesman in Kabul. Townspeople have fled the town and abandoned their shops as Taliban insurgents and British troops stationed there have been trading artillery and rockets, according to a resident of the area.