How charming.
The Post cites internal US immigration documents that showed that the man, named as 22-year-old Basel Bassel Ebbadi, said in an interview that he had "trained with Hezbollah for seven years and served as an active member guarding weapons locations for another four years."Since age 11 — kind of like Junior ROTC.
Basel Bassel Ebbadi, 22, was caught by border patrol on March 9 near
El Paso, Texas
Ebbadi later claimed in an interview that he had been trying to flee
Leb
...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
and
Hamas
...not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
because he "didn’t want to kill people" and said "once you’re in in, you can never get out," according to internal ICE documents.
That sure sounds like taqqiya.
Ebbadi didn’t have documents when he entered the US, claiming they were robbed "with a knife" while he was in Costa Rica, according to the ICE documents.
He also admitted to using a fake birthday and name in Sweden, in Ecuador — where he claimed his father resides — and Panama this year.
Left the real documents with Pops back at the ol’ homestead in Ecuador, one assumes. Is Pops a Hamasnik, too? Does Ecuador care?
He said he had originally hoped to go to New York and then move around the country.
Ebbadi was immediately placed into isolation and was referred for an interview with the Tactical Terrorism Response Team (TTRT) for making "terroristic threats to personnel."
Internal documents show he was marked for deportation from the US, although it was not clear which country he would be returned to.
So many choices! How about GITMO in Cuba?
Border agents recorded 98 encounters of terror watchlisted individuals at both the northern and southern borders in fiscal year 2022, an almost twice as many, 172, in the 2023 fiscal year which ends September 20.
So far in the first four months of 2024, 59 people have been apprehended, according to federal data.
The total number of terror watchlisted encounters between fiscal years 2017 and 2021 amounted to just 30 people, but after that time the criteria for being on the list, which has never been disclosed, was expanded.
No doubt the Biden administration added Catholics and conservative white men to the list.
Just days before former President
Donald Trump
...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons......
’s recent visit to Eagle Pass, Texas, a terror-watchlisted migrant crossed into the area illegally, according to an internal agency memo The Post obtained. Colombian national Carlos Obed Yepez-Bedoya, 40, was first apprehended by the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS), which handed him into the custody of Border Patrol. Border agents made the determination about Yepez-Bedoya’s alleged terror ties.
"This underscores the need for border security measures as potential threats to both public safety and national security are evident and exploit security vulnerabilities," Texas DPS Lt. Chris Olivarez told The Post at the time.
"The federal government has failed to enact border security measures, and the state of Texas, through Governor Abbott’s Operation Lone Star, will continue to take unprecedented action to help secure the border," Olivarez said.
