Al-Qaida trying to recruit Hondurans for attacks

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/printstory.mpl/front/2752436

Honduras tightened security at foreign embassies and declared a national terror alert after receiving information that al-Qaida was trying to recruit Hondurans to attack embassies of the United States, Britain, Spain and El Salvador, a government official said today.

The heightened security was implemented three days ago after Honduras' intelligence services received reports of a plan allegedly targeting those countries' embassies here and abroad, Security Minister Oscar Alvarez said.

"We are facing a state of preventative national alert, because our intelligence services report that al-Qaida foreigners have made offers for Hondurans to carry out sabotage both here and abroad," Alvarez said at a news conference.

Some Hondurans reportedly were offered money to carry out attacks, while others were approached on ideological grounds. Honduras has a tiny Islamic community.

[Maple]

1. Over a billion Muslims

around the world, most of them ticked off, and Al Qaeda is supposedly trying to recruit Hondurans??

Who thinks up this stuff anyhow?

[krkaufman]

3. It's eminently possible

Where there is poverty, you can find a good recruitment pool -- fresh for manipulation. Just check out the US Marines' recruiting techniques in "Fahrenheit 9/11."

[Aidoneus]

4. it's actually a smart move

from the "not expecting it" portfolio, that sort keeps the enemy on their toes.

[2Design]

2. Rumsfeld might have already recruited them...and rummy pays

big bucks for contractors to kill .....and trains them....so they can later come after us...and he gives them WMD .....just like hussein...and then he changes his mind...flip flop ...flip flop....flip flop.....they are our friend, no now they are our enemy....our friend...our enemy...

flip flop...flip flop...flip flop....

[Nordic]

5. and we should believe this because ...........?

I'm sure this came from the United States "intelligence" and I'm sure it's complete bullshit.

Fear the poor brown people! Fear the poor brown people!

[geek tragedy]

6. Hondurans have a much bigger bone to pick with the US.

Indeed, if terrorism were really a reaction to oppression and injustice, the 9/11 attacks would have been carried out by people from Latin America and Southeast Asia.

There are undoubtedly some that would welcome to strike back at the Yanquis. However, I doubt AQ has a viable infrastructure in Central America.

Then again, Islamist terrorists did bomb Jewish targets in Argentina, so the reach could extend in this instance as well.

[burrowowl]

7. I take this with a large crystal of

halite.