Bickering on the border

Consider this: Sheriff Rick Flores of Laredo, Texas, testified that 37 members of the Mexican military -- after having been trained in narcotics warfare by the U.S. military at Fort Benning, Ga. -- have defected to the side of drug cartels in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, after being offered four to five times more in pay. Also, it is believed by some members of the law-enforcement community that al Qaeda loyalists have been offering Mexican gang members large sums of money for the smuggling of radical Islamist operatives into the United States. And, even more frightening, is the fact that Muslim prayer rugs have been discovered by U.S. Border Patrol agents along immigration paths on the U.S. side of the border.