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Published: Thu, 4 Jun 2009
Description: Task force destroying border tunnels to prevent biological attack
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" We heard from Osama bin Laden yesterday and again we continue to get through the audiotape the transcript. But his message while President Obama tour is the Middle East back cut a home though and much closer to home the American tunnel task force. Is a group that is -- to seek and destroy mode along the US border with Mexico and Adam Housley is live on -- Border crossing with California Mexico what's the threat there --"
" Well you know what happened was a video came out about two months ago the US authorities found on line. This Kuwaiti cleric -- dissidents have put out this video where he talks about. Fighters from al-Qaeda coming into the United States using American border tunnels they come from Mexico basically into the United States saying that. They carry a few pounds of anthrax they -- up to 300000 Americans making 9/11 look like a very small event. This was again a couple of months ago it aired on Al-Jazeera this video is not really spread across the Internet quite substantially. And now American authorities say that only is authenticated by the same time they say these threats are just that their threats and they may not be real bill."
" Well. If -- are not real they're taking them seriously. You've been down that -- that border quite a bit Adam how are they changing the way they work in light of these threats."
" Well what they've done really the last couple of years -- they've they've gone after these tunnels and a number of ways to do they have better I -- to the the other side of the border work with authorities in Mexico at the same time -- have a lot of high tech equipment. The training of American agents have gotten better and better each year to help find these tunnels in fact we're starting to hear more titles being found I had a lot easier and a lot quicker in years past 1000000007 years ago leopard starting here -- A tunnel is not about -- a quarter mile behind me and it was literally a drainage tunnel that came under the US board that no one really had -- that would very easily -- the Mexico nowadays that would never happen they're much much better up prepared to find these tunnels. -- say that they don't think it's a threat they realize that what this what is intended to do is scare Americans it may not be realized. By having -- up by having al-Qaeda fighters come into the US that -- bill."
" Good to know we're getting better Adam Housley thanks good to have you on the same back of the border there in the American --"
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