Houston Chronicle, TX
It's a U.S. Homeland Security Department nightmare, and Honduras' most outspoken Cabinet member says it's happening: al-Qaida operatives recruiting Central American gang members to carry out regional attacks and slip terrorists into the United States.
Yet U.S. and Central American officials say they have found no evidence supporting Honduran Security Minister Oscar Alvarez's allegations. And human rights groups accuse Alvarez of trumpeting terrorism reports to justify his crackdown on gangs, who in response have adopted terror-style tactics such as beheadings — 20 so far — and threatened the government.
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