Captured ISIS fighter reveals terror plot using porous southern border, planned to attack America from within
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The porous southern border with Mexico is such a vulnerability to the United States that enemies like the Islamic State see it as a tactical advantage.
As the Democratic Party continues to resist President Trump’s every effort to better secure the border, a captured ISIS fighter confessed that the terrorist group looked to exploit the weakness to smuggle English speaking terrorist members into the US to target New York financial institutions, Fox News reported, citing Homeland Security Today .
Abu Henricki, a seized ISIS fighter with dual citizenship in Canadian and Trinidad, said last month that he was recruited by leadership to attack the United States from a route starting in Central America.
“The plan came from someone from the New Jersey state of America,” Henricki said. “I was going to take the boat from Puerto Rico into Mexico. He was going to smuggle me in.”
“They wanted to use these people (to attack inside the U.S.) because they were from these areas,” he said, referencing the New York area.
In January, a White House briefing said “3,775 known or suspected terrorists [were] prevented from traveling or entering the U.S. by DHS” in the fiscal year 2017 — the stops occurred mainly at airports, but it’s not clear how many may have attempted to enter through the southern border.
Not lost here is that thousands upon thousands of illegal immigrants entering the U.S. undetected.
And, as Border Patrol reported last week, Central American citizens are not the only ones trying to enter the country illegally.
Henricki said other Trinidadians were approached to “do the same thing,” although many of them have since been killed.
He also said he was imprisoned in Manbij, Syria, after refusing the mission and was brutally tortured. Henricki said his wife, a Canadian citizen, was also taken prisoner and endured psychological torture.
Anne Speckhard, who co-conducted the study Homeland Security Today reported on, spoke with Fox News.
An adjunct associate professor of psychiatry at Georgetown University and director of the International Center for the Study of Violent Extremism, Speckhard posited that it is “plausible” that ISIS would send people to attack, given that the terrorist group “has organized plots in Europe with returnees.”
But she was skeptical that the planned attack is still alive.
“This plot is likely dead as those who were pressured to join it are according to Abu Henricki now all dead and ISIS is in retreat as we know,” Speckhard said. “That does not mean we shouldn’t disregard that it was a plot.”
She added that the U.S. “should take thoughtful steps to prevent” such plots.
Like securing the border?
“We often hear about terrorists trying to enter the southern border in political debate, but I rarely have come across a real case, Speckhard said. “It surprised me to hear this was a real plot by ISIS to exploit our southern border. That’s concerning of course.”
Why would he try the Mexican border when the Canadian border is wide open?
Maybe because it's pretty well known at this point how overwhelmed the Border Patrol is in that area. They're too busy housing and feeding people to monitor the people passing through checkpoints.
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Obviously we could debate about which border is really wide open. The fact is that the plan was to use the multitude coming over the southern border to mix in. It really dosen't matter does it? Some seem to want crisis and mayhem as long as Trump is President. Obstruction and gridlock are the order of the day.
Interesting thing is that Bin Laden thought he was going to do the same thing by attacking the World Trade Centers on 9/11. He thought he could seriously disrupt our financial infrastructure by destroying the WTC. He was not aware that the majority of what he sought to destroy had been moved to other offsite locations in other parts of the state on secure servers. Can't help but wonder if ISIS is making the same miscalculation?
But didn't because it is way easier to just fly to New York. Trying to enter the country illegally through the southern border and then going all the way to New York to carry out an act of terrorism is fucking stupid.
Whoever said terrorists are intelligent?
Assuming you can make it past a monitored port of entry like an airport; which has a massive data base terrorist watch list- and countries of origin that are restricted travel from. So fake ID, fake passport, country hopping all over the place to mask point of origin, and then hoping that the terrorist camp they were trained at wasn't monitored by US, NATO, or anyone else that is sharing terrorist information.
Sounds easy. Of course they would have to come over 1 at a time as to not arouse suspicion; and each individual attempt would have a chance of being detected. Once they catch one, they will lock down on future attempts.
Think that they are checking for terrorists on our southern border right now? Terrorist will need to learn Spanish, and have fake or even no IDs. That is assuming they are stupid enough to get caught; and not use the massive influx of asylum seekers to divert border patrol agents away from where they will cross- like the Cartel and coyotes are now doing.
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Oh yes, yes, it's ALL true, the EVIL unidentified and unknown ISIS speaker was on the money ALL the way. Count your life in the few hours before the hoards of ISIS invade and kill you all in your beds!!!!
(I hope that comment was gentle and polite and agreeable enough that it doesn't get deleted.)