Terrorists Busted in Columbia

Al-Qaeda and Hamas have been busted doing naughty things in Colombia:

Colombia has dismantled a false passport ring with links to al-Qaida and Hamas militants, the acting attorney general said Thursday after authorities led dozens of simultaneous raids across five cities.

The gang allegedly supplied an unknown number of citizens from Pakistan, Jordan, Iraq, Egypt and other countries with false passports and Colombian nationality without them ever stepping foot in the country, the attorney general's office said in a written statement.

The counterfeited passports were then used to facilitate their entry into the United States and Europe.

Nineteen people were arrested in Thursday's raids, carried out in collaboration with U.S. authorities, the attorney general's office said. Officials at the U.S. Embassy in Bogota were not immediately available for contact.

An undisclosed number of those arrested are wanted for working with al-Qaida, the international terrorist organization headed by Osama Bin Laden, and the militant Palestinian group Hamas, said acting Attorney General Jorge Armando Otalora.

Yes, the second party in this soiree is now the majority ruling party of Palestine. And they have direct ties to al-Qaeda. Big surprise.

What a contrast in terrorist organizations though. One has been dutifully elected by its constituents to continue killing the filthy Jews with the blessings of the UK Guardian and Juan Cole, while the other seems to keep finding itself on the business end of Preditor missiles and raging Iraqis who've decided they're tired of them killing their women, children and policemen.

Analysis: If you are buying terrorist stock, short al-Qaeda, go long on Hamas--but not too long.

Actually, the really not nice part of this is the fact that we are now picking up on terrorists cells in South America. So, does anyone want to continue discussion on our borders now?