Be afraid... Be very afraid...
"...run-of-the-mill American citizens" with guns patrolling the AZ/Mex border:
Many cite a recent CIA warning that al Qaeda militants could be preparing to cross from Mexico to carry out attacks in the United States, and say they see the fence as a threat to the security of "heartland America."
"Some day in this country we are going to see them walk into Wal-Mart and blow themselves up, or a small school somewhere, like they do over in Israel," said local resident Freddie Puckett as he gestured at the seven-strand border fence.
Robin Hvidston, a 50-year-old real estate agent from Upland, California, who has been out in the desert all week, says the volunteers are "just run-of-the-mill American citizens" concerned about security and the cost of illegal immigration.
Militia Group Sees Al Qaeda Risk at Mexico Border Fri Apr 8, 2005 12:35 PM ET By Tim Gaynor
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=domesticNews&storyID=8129083
DOUGLAS, Ariz. (Reuters) - Militia volunteer Jack Montrose trains his binoculars south of the cactus-studded Arizona border and spies a group of people hunkered down behind a railway embankment on the Mexican side.
"I can see eight to 10 of them out there, and if it wasn't for us here they'd come right on through," said Montrose, who wore a magnum pistol strapped to his hip in a leather holster. "This border is just wide open."
The 67-year-old from Fallon, Nevada, is among 300 to 400 volunteers of the "Minuteman" civilian militia mounting a round-the-clock search for illegal immigrants along a 23-mile section of the border through April 30.
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