New Reports Highlight ISIS-Related Activity Along U.S.-Mexico Border
Reported by Jack Davis August 13, 2016
URL of the original posting site: http://www.westernjournalism.com/new-reports-highlight-isis-related-activity-along-u-s-mexico-border/
New fears are being raised for America’s security along its porous southern border as reports indicate ISIS is eyeing Mexico as a base of operations against America.
According to reports in an Italian newspaper, ISIS operative Shaykh Mahmood Omar Khabir has been training militants near Ciudad Juarez since 2015.
The newspaper quotes Khabir as saying the Southern Border is so easy to enter he “could get in with a handful of men, and kill thousands of people in Texas or in Arizona in the space of a few hours.”
The article claimed that ISIS was working with Mexican drug cartels.
Further information linking ISIS with operations in Mexico came after the arrest of Erick Jamal Hendricks, who was arrested last week and charged with “conspiracy to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization.”
Judicial Watch, which has independently reported about the existence of the Ciudad Juarez camp, reported that Hendricks said jihadist “brothers” are just south of the U.S. border in Mexico. Hendricks tried to “recruit people to train together and conduct terrorist attacks in the United States,” according to the government’s criminal complaint.
The Justice Department, in announcing Hendricks’ arrest, noted his connection to Mexico-based terrorists.
“Hendricks allegedly told (an ISIS source) that he ‘needed people’ and wanted to meet in person; that there were several ‘brothers’ located in Texas and Mexico; that he was attempting to ‘get brothers to meet face to face;’ and that he wanted ‘to get brothers to train together,’” according to a Department of Justice press release announcing Hendricks’ arrest.
The Justice Department said Hendricks tried to recuit an undercover FBI informant.
The press release alleges that Hendriclks told the informant to “download the document ‘GPS for the Ghuraba in the U.S.’, which … allegedly encouraged Muslims to die as a ‘Shaheed’ (martyr), to ‘Boobie trap your homes,’ to ‘lay in wait for them’ and to ‘never leave your home without your AK-47 or M16.”
Despite evidence to the contrary, the Obama administration has publicly denied any existence of ISIS terror cells in Mexico.
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