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Official says Mexico may be harboring foreign anti-U.S. guerrilla groups The government’s national security adviser, Adolfo Aguilar Zinser, said on May 28 that Islamic organizations that could have links to guerrilla groups antagonistic to the United States have been spotted in Mexico. “We have evidence that organizations or people linked to Islamic organizations could have a presence here or be passing through,” and those groups could have guerrilla ties, he said, adding that international agencies had informed the government of the groups' presence in Mexico. “Our duty is to find them and send them away from the country so they don’t put roots down here or try to use our territory as a haven.” The newspaper El Universal and other dailies reported that the groups now in Mexico could be tied to militant Hezbollah guerrillas based in the Middle East and members of Spain’s Basque separatist guerrilla organization ETA. The reports said the groups had arrived in Mexico’s north with the aim of carrying out guerrilla activities in the United States. However, Zinser ruled out any possibility that the international guerrilla groups could have links with Mexico's Chiapas-based rebels, the National Zapatista Liberation Army that took up arms against the government in 1994 in the name of Mexico’s 10 million impoverished indigenous people. |
