Seems unlikely that these rather nasty gang members have anything at all to do with Al Qaeda. (Link from the Wikipedia article.)
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2005-02...-salvador_x.htm
Seems to me like the Salvadoran government is just kissing US butt by trying to link the two countries' problems. The amount of cash that the US has traditionally poured into El Salvador to fight Communism is surely well remembered by their rightist government. Colombia provides a staggeringly good model of how willing the US is to provide cash and military power to fight whatever the current enemy is. (First Communism, then drugs, now terrorism.)
The Washington Times, of course, would dearly love to see two major conservative talking points come together in one tidy package: Illegal immigration and terrorism. That newspaper is off the handle, like mixing Fox News with Sun Myung Moon and putting it to press.
Has anyone except the government of El Salvador, and the Washington Times (edit: ... and the usual suspects...) suggested that this is the case?
(A quick Google shows me that this particular ball has also been picked up by the Boston Herald, and then passed it to Michelle Malkin, worldnetdaily.com, jihadwatch.com, etc... Needless to say, it'd be nice to have another source, if there is one.)
-Jester
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2005-02...-salvador_x.htm
Seems to me like the Salvadoran government is just kissing US butt by trying to link the two countries' problems. The amount of cash that the US has traditionally poured into El Salvador to fight Communism is surely well remembered by their rightist government. Colombia provides a staggeringly good model of how willing the US is to provide cash and military power to fight whatever the current enemy is. (First Communism, then drugs, now terrorism.)
The Washington Times, of course, would dearly love to see two major conservative talking points come together in one tidy package: Illegal immigration and terrorism. That newspaper is off the handle, like mixing Fox News with Sun Myung Moon and putting it to press.
Has anyone except the government of El Salvador, and the Washington Times (edit: ... and the usual suspects...) suggested that this is the case?
(A quick Google shows me that this particular ball has also been picked up by the Boston Herald, and then passed it to Michelle Malkin, worldnetdaily.com, jihadwatch.com, etc... Needless to say, it'd be nice to have another source, if there is one.)
-Jester