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Texas officials warn of Islamic State threat to U.S.-Mexican border

Jan 27, 2017 3:23 pm By Robert Spencer

Build that wall!

“Texas Officials Warn of ISIS Threat to U.S.-Mexican Border,” by John Rossomando, Investigative Project, January 26, 2017:

A report by the Texas Department of Public Safety raises concerns about ISIS terrorists using the Mexican border both to enter and leave the country. It noted that at least 13 aspiring terrorists have tried to cross into Mexico, or considered trying, since 2012.

Most of those cases involved people who knew they were on the federal no-fly list but wanted to travel to join terrorists, the report said. Sneaking across the southern border “presents an opportunity for increasing numbers of aspiring foreign terrorist fighters to evade US interdiction efforts such as the No-Fly List.”

The most recent example happened in October. Texas authorities arrested two Milwaukee men near San Angelo, Texas on the way to the Mexican border. Jason Ludke, 35, and Yosvany Padilla-Conde, 30, wanted to go to Mexico, obtain fraudulent travel documents and travel to join ISIS in Syria or Iraq.

In another instance in April 2015, seven Somali men from Minnesota tried to cross from San Diego into Mexico in an effort to get to Syria and fight for ISIS.

Texas resident Bilal Hamed Abood, an Iraq-born naturalized U.S. citizen, successfully used the border in 2013 to travel to Syria, where he fought for a Syrian rebel group. The FBI arrested Abood for lying about his initial travel to Syria when he tried to come home through the Dallas-Fort Worth airport. Abood claimed he fought for a faction that was not prohibited under U.S. law. However, FBI agents search his computer and found that he took an oath of allegiance to ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

Texas authorities voiced concern in 2014 about ISIS social media threats to use the Mexican border to enter the United States.

In a criminal complaint filed last year, alleged ISIS supporter Erick Jamal Hendricks claimed to have had contact with an ISIS supporter known as “Abu Harb.” “Abu Harb” told Hendricks that he was in Dallas and that the “Islamic State had brothers in Mexico.”

Previously, government officials warned about threats to the U.S. border posed by other terrorist groups including Al-Shabaab and Hizballah.

President Trump touted the ISIS threat as a reason for building his wall along the Mexican border during the campaign. He signed an executive order Wednesday calling for the wall’s construction, but funding sources are not yet clear.

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  1. EmHotep says

    Jan 27, 2017 at 3:33 pm

    https://www.reddit.com/r/Turkey/comments/5qj010/lindsay_lohan_bana_alabed_recep_tayyip_erdo%C4%9Fan/

    • Angemon says

      Jan 27, 2017 at 3:47 pm

      Is the girl in white Erdogan’s new wife?

      • EmHotep says

        Jan 27, 2017 at 3:52 pm

        🙂

      • EmHotep says

        Jan 27, 2017 at 3:53 pm

        The one without feet 🙂 is the wife

        • Angemon says

          Jan 27, 2017 at 6:16 pm

          Poor woman, she can’t run from him 🙂

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 27, 2017 at 4:01 pm

      I hope Lindsay is not considering becoming some Muslim thug’s “second wife”…

      • Schrödinger says

        Jan 29, 2017 at 1:50 pm

        Freckles always was a troubled girl. Her troubles are only going to worsen, following her apparent seduction by the wolf of islam.

        Here, together with that rather bizarre looking creature on the other side of the photo, both being used as props by a cynical, ruthless megalomaniac seeking untrammelled power and authority in the mould of muhammad, she appears quite aimless and pathetic. Are you going to dial 911 from Dohar, from Raqqah, from Mecca, Lindsay?

        Sadly, her probable fate will likewise be that of most US citizens should the not so hidden agenda of the wolf of Islam protesting, ostensibly in solidarity, with these hordes of guileless cupcakes and fruitcakes to ever prevail against the efforts of Trump and those who elected him.

    • Choi says

      Jan 27, 2017 at 9:20 pm

      Lohan is now AL-ABED,The SLAVE
      This time she really RUINED her life

      • duh swami says

        Jan 28, 2017 at 6:05 am

        It’s a really strange way to self medicate…

  2. gravenimage says

    Jan 27, 2017 at 3:39 pm

    Texas officials warn of Islamic State threat to U.S.-Mexican border
    ……………………….

    Yes–generally, security in Mexico is not nearly as stringent as in the US–so travelling to or from Mexico and sneaking over the porous southern border is a real threat. I wonder how many Jihadists are here on just that basis?

  3. Angemon says

    Jan 27, 2017 at 3:45 pm

    The most recent example happened in October. Texas authorities arrested two Milwaukee men near San Angelo, Texas on the way to the Mexican border. Jason Ludke, 35, and Yosvany Padilla-Conde, 30, wanted to go to Mexico, obtain fraudulent travel documents and travel to join ISIS in Syria or Iraq.

    In another instance in April 2015, seven Somali men from Minnesota tried to cross from San Diego into Mexico in an effort to get to Syria and fight for ISIS.

    Maybe I’m missing something here, but isn’t people wanting to go to Mexico and from there to Iraq or Syria a good thing? Isn’t taht a batter alternative than forcing them to stay in the US and risking them going jihadi in American soil?

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 27, 2017 at 4:13 pm

      One could make that argument, Angemon.

      But two things here: one, this shows that Jihadists are indeed using our southern border; secondly, it shows that Muslims are trying to hide their going to fight Jihad, which means that they may later sneak *back* over that border into the US, replete with Jihad training and ready to kill Americans.

      • Yesenia says

        Jan 27, 2017 at 4:19 pm

        Yes… agreed

      • TR says

        Jan 29, 2017 at 12:16 pm

        Mexico has been used as an exit point for anyone attempting to leave the USA for a prohibited area.
        I remember back in the 1960’s when investigating the SDS, The Venceremos Brigade to Cuba,
        Those going to Cuba exited through Mexico where they had departed with “EXIT to Cuba,” stamped on their passports. They re-entered the USA through Canada after a boat ride took them to Canada from Cuba.. Then they would reenter at Niagara Falls or some other less convenient place. I remember picking up “Middle Eastern Freedom Fighters” as SDS call them at the Canadian Falls and bringing them across the Peace Bridge to SDS meetings and conferences in Buffalo. They attended almost all, SDS Conferences as “Solidarity Brothers.”

        • TR says

          Jan 29, 2017 at 12:20 pm

          Thought I would mention this too:
          Obama’s Weathermen Buddies were the ones arranging this “Cultural Exchange” in solidarity support in Struggle BS.

    • marina says

      Jan 27, 2017 at 4:24 pm

      I agree with you Angemon. They should be allowed to leave and if they are citizens then their citizenship should be stripped .

    • Anne Smith says

      Jan 28, 2017 at 2:06 pm

      It is amazing that people who want to go to join Isis are prevented from doing so. The odds are very high that they will be killed out there so why not get rid of them?
      Why force them to stay when they are so obviously full of hatred – get shot of them.

  4. Yesenia says

    Jan 27, 2017 at 4:17 pm

    Just crossed the border from Mexico to US and was shocked at what I saw. I grew up by the border and go to mexico regurlarly, and have never seen Somalis….. ever! This the third time I have seen them and this time it was way more, not just 4 or 5, but like 20 to 30. WTF

  5. duh swami says

    Jan 28, 2017 at 6:10 am

    Mexico is not the friend of the US…Making them pay for the wall is small potato’s compared to the harm to the US they have allowed on their border…

  6. Rosemary says

    Jan 28, 2017 at 6:57 am

    They can learn jihadi killing tactics online without leaving the country, so if 10 or 15 or even one of them want to leave for hands-on experience in the ME, I say GO! We’ve got beefed-up border security on the way and we can deal with re-entry when and if the time comes.

  7. A Harris USA says

    Jan 28, 2017 at 11:50 am

    Living 30 miles from the Mexican border, I can tell you there are people from many nations that cross illegal every day. But since Obama the Muslim, adopted the catch and release policy, terrorist and Muslims of all nations pour into the land, even when caught being released by the Border Patrol, by order of Obama, put all of us in grave danger. That ended when Trump took the oath of office. At a secondary check point near Temecula, I saw just days after the inauguration, I saw first hand a step up of BP agents, and equipment . Trump wasted no time, protecting the American people.. Thank God!

  8. Dov Berrol says

    Jan 28, 2017 at 8:36 pm

    Very nice. But with the Bleeding Heart Liberals in power in Ottawa, jihadis have another border across which they can sneak into the US. Unfortunately, Trump will also have to build a very expensive and long wall across the 49th parallel.

    With Trudeau’s love of Islam, Canada will become more of a launching pad for jihadist attacks on US soil. Canada’s new immigration minister is a Somali Muslim refugee.

    How we will prevent smuggling across the Great Lakes will be even more challenging. And the Muslim community in Detroit is a prime location for welcoming these jihadis.

    We better hope that Canada’s Conservatives take back power soon….

    • Eric Jones says

      Jan 29, 2017 at 12:26 am

      Hear. Hear.

      Eric

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