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[steve2470]

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=politicsNews&storyID=6573226

or

http://tinyurl.com/6ywcv

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) - It's a U.S. Homeland Security Department nightmare, and Honduras' most outspoken Cabinet member says it's happening: Al-Qaida operatives recruiting Central American gang members to carry out regional attacks and slip terrorists into the United States.

Yet U.S. and Central American officials say they have found no evidence supporting Honduran Security Minister Oscar Alvarez's allegations. And human rights groups accuse Alvarez of trumping terrorism reports to justify his crackdown on gangs, who in response have adopted terror-style tactics such as beheadings - 20 so far - and threatened the government.

Romulo Emiliani, a Roman Catholic bishop working closely with gang members in the northern city of San Pedro Sula, called the reports "an attempt to distract the public while the government puts thousands of youths in jail."

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rest of headline: but U.S., Other Latin Leaders Skeptical

[Bridget Burke]

1. So he needs aid money from the US!

And perhaps special training for his security forces. I know the School of the Anericas has been renamed--but it's still in business.

[ck4829]

2. Oliver North <-> Drugs <-> Central American Criminals <-> Al Qaeda?