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Monday, April 5, 2004
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Houston’s terror threats probi
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HOUSTON (AP) — A 100-member Houston
task force including federal, state and local law
enforcement officials has investigated thousands
of tips on possible terrorist activity.
While most of the leads don’t have serious con
sequences, one tip helped Houston’s Joint
Terrorism Task Force thwart attempts by suspect
ed terrorists to cross the Mexican
border into Texas, assistant U.S.
Attorney Abe Martinez said.
Houston is viewed as one of eight
U.S. cities most vulnerable to a
potential terrorist attack, said
Martinez, who is a task force mem
ber. Officials are concerned, for
example, that terrorists targeting the
petrochemical industry, NASA’s
Johnson Space Center or the George
Bush Intercontinental Airport could
enter through the porous Gulf of
Mexico coastline.
“It is the only area in the U.S.
with critical infrastructure in all
risk categories,” Martinez was
quoted as saying in Sunday’s edition of the
Houston Chronicle.
Houston’s task force, created a few weeks
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wanted to exchange millions of dinars foryl
rency and find a smuggler to bring themi
border near Laredo, officials said.
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on President Bush’s Crawford ranch, when
“wanted to blow something up,” said Pom
also is a task force member.
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sought help from two
links to the United
Forces of Colombia, or AUC.
has been named a foreign is
organization, Martinez said.
“The threat was
and went away,” he said,“J
say how.”
Another tip triggered a
investigation of a conveniencj
owner in Alice who was
explosives and collecting
tall buildings.
Muhammad Navid Asrarii
in federal prison after
guilty to being an undi
— Abe Martinez
assistant U.S. attorney
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before the first World Trade Center Bombing in
1993, was the first in the state and one of the few
in the nation already in place before the Sept. 11
attacks. There are now 70 terrorism task forces
nationwide, including ones in Dallas, San Antonio
and El Paso.
“It’s only a matter of when terrorists will strike
again, not if they will,” Assistant U.S. Attorney
Joe Porto said.
Task force members said they believe they have
prevented attacks from happening.
A few days after the start of the war in Iraq, task
force members heard that five Iraqis in Mexico City
immigrant in illegal possession of 50rounij
mm bullets, records show.
Asrar, a Pakistani who overstayed hiss
visa, denied any connection to terrorists,
investigators said they could not prove \
intended to do with the photographs,
remains under investigation, FBI Agent I
Troutman has testified.
Each investigation teaches task forcer
lessons that will help them be moreei
authorities said.
"We can’t guarantee nothing willeverti
again,” said Richard Powers, the FBI m
charge of the Houston task force. "Butwei
better shape. We have the national wilfdedid
and focus.”
NEWS IN BRIEF
Class size limit
proposal draws
mixed reactions
AUSTIN (AP) — A proposal to
change Texas’ elementary class
size limit, a 22-pupil cap adopted
20 years ago, is under considera
tion by lawmakers looking for ways
to help cash-strapped districts
save money.
The Joint Select Committee on
Public School Finance has sug
gested making the class size cap
on grades kindergarten through
four a district average, giving dis
tricts more flexibility to meet stu
dent needs.
But teachers who say the limit
has irrefutable educational value
oppose the proposal and plan to
fight it.
Firefighter killed in
ballroom blaze
HOUSTON (AP) - A firefighter
was killed and three others were
injured early Sunday while battling
a blaze at a ballroom.
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Festival Ballroom in
Houston around 6 a.m.
building engulfed in flames
went inside, but the fire* I'hiledr
intense and they were pule:l ,e s,att
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