Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Bizarre Tale of Revenge

A Lebanese man named Kamal Boughader Mucharrafille has been arrested in Mexico City after declaring war on Santander, one of the country's foremost financial institutions. The bank's supposed crime: it lost $3 million in jewels stashed in a safe-deposit box belonging to Kamal, whose girlfriend subsequently committed suicide. He was evidently planning to fire bazooka rounds at the bank's headquarters, before targeting Santander's senior management and their families. 

The article puts the word "terrorist" in quotes, which suggests that he's something less than a top-level Hezbollah operative. Then again, it says he was a weapons expert and had fought with extremist groups in Lebanon, and his intentions were certainly alarming. Whatever the case, during the next round of open-border scare-mongering, I wouldn't be surprised if he was held up as Example A of terrorists holed up in Mexico. 

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