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Sep. 10, 2012 10:41pm Erica Ritz

Mexican Authorities Arrest American Citizen With Alleged Hezbollah Members

Allaboun was arrested in Mexico over the weekend. (Photo: Yucutan Times)

Rafic Mohammad Labboun Allaboun, an American citizen, was arrested Saturday night in the company of a number of suspected Hezbollah operatives, the Yucutan Times reports.

American authorities had already issued an international alert for the man, so after his arrest Allaboun was directly transported to Houston, Texas.

The two other suspected extremists, Justin Yasser Safa from Belize and George Abdalah Elders, remain in Mexican custody, the Times of Israel relates.

Apparently Allaboun attempted to convince Mexican authorities he was from Belize as well, even showing them a fake passport before his arrest.

Though few details about the group have been released, the Yucutan Times adds:

Official sources stated that intelligence agencies from the United States were tracking down this group, allegedly part of the terrorist network of Hezbollah…this cell operates in Mexico and Central America.

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Allegedly the group [that was] arrested [was] participating in financing activities in an attempt to bail out incarcerated Hezbollah members jailed in the United States.

American authorities have long been concerned about radical organizations infiltrating our porous southern border.

In 2011, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney warned that the existence of such groups throughout Latin America, particularly in collusion with the drug cartels, pose a “significant and imminent threat to the United States of America.”

(H/T: Gateway Pundit)

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elation22
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 10:43am
Thank God he was in Mexico – DOJ would never allow arrest here in USA

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mikester8888
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 6:36am
Democrat National Headquarters…….OK gang, so we lost a few. they got Rafic and his gang. But dont you worry, there are many to take thier place when it comes time to pull that lever in the voting booths.

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- johnpaulkuchtajr
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 7:09am
  Unfortunately, the Republicrats are up to their a$$es in Saudi campaign cash as well.
  
  Go to http://www.muslimbrotherhoodinamerica.com. Go to Section Six if you want to watch our fine Virginia Gentlemen / Politicians with their hands out. The latest Republicrat caught in the act is George Allen, candidate for US Senate from VA. Photographs surfaced last month of Allen and Mohammed Magid, president of ISNA, one of the big funnels for Saudi cash. They were having an animated conversation in a parking lot and were caught on film. I believe that Allen was grumpy about all the cash coming in hundreds. Allen wanted twenties. Life can be hard, huh, George?
  
  Very appropriate that this column appears on 9/11, yes?
  
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WalterShumatelives
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 3:18am
Good job to the people who caught these guys. I hope the feds are cracking his skull right now.

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- Detroit paperboy
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 3:37am
  Oh wow I’m shocked,,,,,,,but let’s make sure we do a good deep cavity search on granny while the southern border has neon billboards for more criminal welfare recipients….yay !!! I feel safe !!!!! The biggest and most direct threat to the American way of life, is our criminal federal government, not the terrorist behind every tree that they protect us from ” supposedly “
  
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- Gonzo
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 10:16am
  I’m surprised Obama didn’t take him out with a drone. All that pesky intelligence you get from these guys takes time away from the golf course.
  
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Coyote1953
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 2:55am
Open our southern border so more Obama supporters can enter our country.

He’s running out of Americans who would vote for him.

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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 7:16am
  Have been wondering if all of those welcome mats along the border are intermitanly printed in Spanish, Farsi, and Arabic?
  
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ISRAELISOURFRIEND
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 1:49am
American authorities have long been concerned about radical organizations infiltrating our porous southern border.

AMERICAN CITIZENS HAVE LONGED FOR THREE AND A HALF YEARS CONCERNED ABOUT THE RADICAL ORGANIZATION THAT HAS INFILTRATED OUR POROUS GOVERNMENT.

When will anyone stand up against this Dictatorship that is unfolding? Where are our American leaders? Where is the FBI, NSA, Secret Service, Pentagon, Homeland Security, Justice Department, CIA? Have they all become infiltrated, organized against the American Constitution?

Will not ONE stand up in CONGRESS and speak out for WE THE PEOPLE?

ANYONE?

g

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- Max jones
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 2:12am
  Israel is our friend….I don;t know boy… are you in denial? Everything that this government is doing is for the EXPRESS purpose of dismantling this country. This destruction has been going on for fifty years or more…It has the momentum of a thousand car freight train. There is not a shred of hope that it can be stopped or even slowed down one little bit. In a very short while, they will come for our guns and any that resist will be killed. Many many more will be taken away. You are threat to the NEW system for you have your own mind. It is ON, my Brother.
  
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Jerry Frey
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 1:48am
Americans are not Muslim. http://napoleonlive.info/see-the-evidence/facts-hezbollah-and-islamists/

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Tankertony
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 1:05am
Rose-ellen is probably down there too, trying to save her buddies.

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Elena2010
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 12:47am
You presume that islam is like other totalitarian regimes. It is not. Shariah destroys everything in its path.

Get educated:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_Qpy0mXg8Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9sYgqRtZGg

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Elena2010
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 12:39am
There are nests of these vipers in the Tri-Border region in South America. They have been there for more than a decade.

Hezbollah is far more proficient as a fighting force than al-Qaeda. They are trained and armed by the gov’t of Iran. They “perfected” the homicide/suicide bomber as the poor man’s cruise missile. That is only one of the weapons of last resort. They are skilled in other means of attacks, incl the signature beheading.

They killed our Marines in 1983 by suicide bombing the Marine barracks in Lebanon. They have attacked our servicemen in Khobar Towers under Clinton’s watch. They have attacked Jewish places in Argentina. They have attacked off-duty service personnel in Europe. They are deadly folks, and they hate us as the Great Satan.

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zoro51
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 12:20am
exterminate him no pity no mercy NOW

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- Elena2010
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 12:40am
  Interrogate first. Gitmo second.
  
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- Tankertony
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 1:07am
  Gitmo is a Hilton compared to a mexican prison.
  
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- Elena2010
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 1:41am
  It depends upon how much money you have to bribe the guards and how well connected (family-wise) you are.
  
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- AnOregonian
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 9:20am
  Mexican prisons by no means is a guarantee of extended incarceration. With the right bribe escapes are always possible.
  
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Polarized America
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 11:37pm
i’m not voting for Paul but over the years he sure has had loads of common sense, one was opening up trade and dialog with Cuba…i was watching a chat room the other day (i wasn’t participating) and more then a few chatters from Russia were talking about vacationing in Cuba, sounded like it was the place to go for them.. and now look at Central America & Mexico our neighbors, and we have Russia subs in the Gulf !!!……… and yet we trade with China

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- Walkabout
  Posted on September 10, 2012 at 11:50pm
  If we opened trade with Cuba would it end up like South Africa with a bad regime falling?
  Would it end up like China with some economic freedom but still controlled by a communist oligarchy?
  Or would it end up like South Africa with a bad regime falling a ray of hope with Mandela to be replaced by misrule with the succeeding Presidents?
  
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- Polarized America
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 12:23am
  i don’t know WALKABOUT..i was just thinking ..keep your friends close & enemy’s closer i guess
  i’m all for a better boarder with Mexico..and i would like to see the Gulf protected as well ……………….
  
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- Max jones
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 1:57am
  Yeah, we coulda been buying their sugar, help em a little. poor things.
  
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Psychosis
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 11:32pm
here little trollies come out to plaaaaaaayyyyaaaaaaaaah

what? got nothing to say ??????

cowards

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- Walkabout
  Posted on September 10, 2012 at 11:57pm
  Exactly the way I feel & you said it so well.
  
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- riseandshine
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 1:20am
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRM2YcGpmxg
  
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Shamrock241
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 11:25pm
The story said an American citizen was arrested, all i saw was some filty Mid East muslim who hate’s America, if you hate my country you ARE NOT American.

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Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 11:20pm
So we don’t believe our government and generally agree they lie to us on all things economic like unemployment data, GDP, CPI, etc. They lie about legislation and Exec. Orders, and alphabet soup regulations. Our Stasi doesn’t trust us either…given the measures that they are taking to protect themselves from us.

But now I’m supposed to take their word for it that there is some new Pax Latin Islamo threat? I simply just need to give more money and more freedom so that I can be safe?

Sorry, no more. I’ll take my chances. Pretty sure I could take this guy. I’ll protect myself and I’m not going to be scared into serfdom by a bunch of lying brownshirts.

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- Walkabout
  Posted on September 10, 2012 at 11:27pm
  If you were part of Al Qaeda & you knew the southern border of America was porous you would exploit it also.
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on September 10, 2012 at 11:31pm
  In 2011, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney warned that the existence of such groups throughout Latin America, particularly in collusion with the drug cartels, pose a “significant and imminent threat to the United States of America.”
  
  Germany & Japan cooperated during WW2. They were both countries ran by racists with many people inculcated with racism. If they had defeated the allies, you know sooner or later they would have been at each pother’s throats. So why did they cooperate? Because they had similar short term objectives & so they made strange bed fellows.
  
  So you are telling me that the cartels & Hezbollah can;t cooperate? Puh-leeease.
  
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- Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
  Posted on September 10, 2012 at 11:40pm
  Not what I’m saying Walkabout. I’m saying they’ll leave the border wide open and use some trumped up bogeyman to get us all to submit to further sheep transformation.
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 12:00am
  Yes, there are people you think exactly like that. I wouldn’t put it past Rahm Emanuel of Crass Sunsteen to do exactly like you say.
  
  My apologies.
  
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- Elena2010
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 12:43am
  You presume that islam is like other totalitarian regimes. It is not. Shariah destroys everything in its path.
  
  Get educated:
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_Qpy0mXg8Y
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9sYgqRtZGg
  
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v15
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 11:12pm
When you’re parading yourself around in America with the name “Rafic Mohammad Labboun Allaboun,” blasting jihad pop songs from your XM radio, with a “72VIRGINS” license plate then expect to get profiled.

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- texanpatriot
  Posted on September 10, 2012 at 11:22pm
  lol
  
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- GodFearingMama
  Posted on September 10, 2012 at 11:27pm
  And we’re all frisked down at the airport while they prance across our borders… You for got to mention the shirts unbuttoned to their belly buttons to show off a huge collection of 5k gold necklaces while they pour into the strip clubs and their wives are wearing Halloween costumes all day.. Lol I live close to Dearborn
  
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- Amarilloan
  Posted on September 10, 2012 at 11:59pm
  In this day and age? He’d have to be a lactating mother with child, or old lady wearing depends, or maybe a 4 year old in a wheel chair. That is the kind of profiling we have now.
  
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juancarnuba
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 11:09pm
Anyone want to make a wager whether or not any of the Fast and Furious weapons are in Hezbollah hands?

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- Walkabout
  Posted on September 10, 2012 at 11:24pm
  Only way I would take that bet is if you gave me a spread (like in football betting) as to how large or small of percentage of Eric Holder’s guns ended up in Hezbollah’s hands.
  
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700P
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 11:08pm
Knock, Knock….

It seems fitting to remind everyone on the eve of 9/11 the next major terrorist attack will not be like any of the previous ones. Unfortunately we tend to prepare for the last attack when the signs point to probably exploiting our porous border. Meanwhile the TSA is testing beverages purchased inside the security area (is the problem all the far eastern-types who run the gift shops?).

It’s easier to make everyone feel inconvenienced as they will also feel “safer” but the truth is an airport employee is potentially a much bigger threat. It would not be a stretch for someone to outfit a “Mumbai-style” raid south of the border and perhaps target Disneyland or Seaworld. Goodness knows there are enough Fast and Furious weapons still floating around down there (thank you Eric).

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- Melvin Spittle
  Posted on September 10, 2012 at 11:18pm
  There is no more destructive weapon than biological warfare. We train our enemies experts in our universities.
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on September 10, 2012 at 11:21pm
  Come on now they have to make a good show of it by patting us all down, while some Muslims get security badges, because they work for the airlines or gift shops & smuggle stuff in. Then when a plane goes down they can say we did everything human;y possible there was noting else we could have done.
  
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Walkabout
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 11:04pm
“American authorities have long been concerned about radical organizations infiltrating our porous southern border.”

But to liberal who troll sites like this, it will never happen in the near future.

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- U.N.hater
  Posted on September 10, 2012 at 11:13pm
  Clinton gave us 911 what will Obama give us?
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on September 10, 2012 at 11:37pm
  U.N.hater
  
  What you said was true concise & depressing as HeII.
  
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semihardrock
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 11:02pm
Yet….NO mention of “Homeland Security”…..huh?

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- Amarilloan
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 12:02am
  Janet Napolitano is too busy with her botox treatments.
  
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- kimh1961
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 7:34am
  That was Nancy. Janet is too busy havinvg her back and chest waxed.
  
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blackyb
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 11:01pm
Common sense should alert those running this cuntry as to what Obama, Holder and thugs are up to. Whey are they not arrested?

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Walkabout
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 11:00pm
People were telling the liberal trolls on Fox News when it had comments that some of the Other Than Mexicans (OTM) coming across the border were jihadists.

Oh no swore the trolls it couldn’t be jihadists looking to set up cells.

Effin Morons are the liberals.

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blackyb
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 10:58pm
The man looks to be on heroin.

Now you know why Obama wants the borders open. Obama is wanting a takeover of this country.

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The-Monk
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 10:53pm
“American authorities had already issued an international alert for the man, so after his arrest Allaboun was directly transported to Houston, Texas.”

Where he will be given a free one way 1st class ticket to any Country of his choosing via Eric Holder.

Houston….. we have a problem. : (

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team1blazer
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 10:51pm
And yet the Attorney General of the United States chooses to sue Arizona for enforcing U.S. border control (while at the same time letting illegals walk, trafficking guns TO the drug cartels and allows sanctuary cities). We MUST rid ourselves of these incompetent progressive monsters.

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thegreatcarnac
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 10:50pm
Texas has warned the feds that Hizbollah and hamas agents have come over the border from Mexico pretending to be Mexican. The Feds act non-challant about it. Just because a few of their lazy agents arrested one does not account for the 100′s that have already crossed.BTW…most only stay in Texas temporarily and move on up north.

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- Walkabout
  Posted on September 10, 2012 at 11:15pm
  Why not act nonchalant about it. The political bosses of Homeland security are nonchalant so the upper management will be as well. The elected political bosses are just as nonchalant as the liberal sheeple that elect them. You know who I am talking about. The progressives that troll here.
  
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