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Mexico: Most-wanted U.S.-based jihadi apprehended at migrant detention center

Aug 26, 2019 5:00 pm By Robert Spencer

This story shows yet again what the Left wants you to forget, that immigration is a national security issue. This is true despite the fact that Mohammed Azharuddin Chhipa was not actually trying to get into the United States; he was an American citizen trying to evade detection by U.S. counterterror agents as he went abroad to join the jihad. But if the pipeline goes one way, it goes the other way as well.

“A Most-Wanted American Jihadist Caught in Mexico Was On His Way to Egypt, not the U.S. Border,” by Todd Bensman, Center for Immigration Studies, August 21, 2019 (thanks to the Geller Report):

On or about August 16, Mexico’s Federal Ministerial Police issued a rare and most curious public announcement: Mexican immigration had apprehended an American citizen who was wanted on an Interpol “blue notice” warrant on suspicion of supporting violent jihad and radical Islam on digital platforms.

The man, identified by Mexican media as “Mohammed Azharuddin Chhipa”, was found and arrested at a migrant detention center in the town of Huehuetan, just a few miles north of a heavily trammeled [sic] Guatemala border crossing for northward-moving U.S.-bound immigrants. Interpol blue notices are put out for international travelers that law enforcement suspects of involvement in a crime.

The U.S. national security concern about Chhipa was such that Mexico deported him by air to Washington D.C., no doubt into the hands of FBI counterterrorism investigators.

Absent further detail, an observer with just this knowledge might guess Chhipa was clandestinely returning home to America on the migrant trails from the Middle East battlefields of ISIS posing as a migrant, as did many dozens of European citizens to reach their home countries. But that is not the case, according to reliable intelligence community sources.

I was told that Chhipa actually was outbound from the United States and on his way toward a foreign jihadist group to join them, at least initially to Egypt. The reason Chhipa was traveling southward away from the United States was because he was on the American “no-fly” list and couldn’t depart from an American airport. He decided to find one somewhere unnamed in Latin America where no fly lists are not a thing, sources told me…

But while the idea that violent Islamic jihadists crossing into the United States at the southern border has inspired significant homeland security investment and programs, American jihadists have also sought to escape no-fly list restrictions and law enforcement detection by traveling southward over the same border to get to the jihad overseas….

And while we still don’t know much about which American city this suspect called home or how his life came to this, it’s safe to assume the FBI had this man on its radar for quite a while before realizing he was gone. Hey, it happens.

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  1. Jean Terry says

    Aug 26, 2019 at 5:20 pm

    These kinds of things should be in the news so people will know how vital it is to protect our borders.

    • Spiro says

      Aug 26, 2019 at 5:37 pm

      U S news agency would never
      cover this story it doesn’t fit their
      anti American mind set after all his just a poor Moslem migrant

      • Spiro says

        Aug 26, 2019 at 5:39 pm

        To make matters worse
        This dirt bag is a US citizen
        We need a major house cleaning

        • gravenimage says

          Aug 27, 2019 at 4:41 pm

          True, John. This Jihadist thug should be stripped of his US citizenship.

    • Lydia Church says

      Aug 26, 2019 at 5:58 pm

      I know… but they won’t tell ya that… because it sheds a bad light on their agenda, policies, and ideology and… “The better to brainwash you… my dear!” (Big bad wolf from little red riding hood.)

  2. Wellington says

    Aug 26, 2019 at 6:23 pm

    Islam is so sneaky. Has been since Mo.

    And thus no wonder there are six approved methods of deception by Mo’s creed (examples being kitman and muruna). That such deceptions are “sanctified” by Islam to this day only serves as testimony to actually how rotten Islam really is in the final analysis.

    Any belief system that has to rely upon deception, as Islam surely does, should be suspect “right out of the gate.” For sundry reasons, the “deception element” of Islam so many times has not been properly and accurately suspected, especially in the last half century in the West which has gone into suicidal stupid mode over such time period.

    Hey, George Bush and Joe Biden, and your, sad to say, voluminous ilk, you gettin’ any of this? Of course you’re not,

    Islam never prospers more than by ignorance of Islam. Sure happening now.

  3. somehistory says

    Aug 26, 2019 at 6:28 pm

    Why are his eyes covered?

    • FYI says

      Aug 27, 2019 at 11:46 am

      Yes,It is kinda ridiculous as you can still make out the face.

      It always makes me laugh when you see such pictures say,of Special Forces in Afghanistan,with the eyes blacked out but… you can STILL make out the face….
      What is the point of just covering ONLY the eyes?

      • somehistory says

        Aug 27, 2019 at 4:37 pm

        Someone must think we can’t tell enough to recognize if the eyes are covered, but lips, noses, hairlines and even ears can be distinct.

  4. gravenimage says

    Aug 26, 2019 at 6:46 pm

    Mexico: Most-wanted U.S.-based jihadi apprehended at migrant detention center
    …………………

    The specifics of his case are a bit unusual, but the issue of Jihadis coming in over our border is not.

  5. CRUSADER says

    Aug 26, 2019 at 7:00 pm

    Now, what will be found crossing the Northern border to the USA ?

  6. underbed cat says

    Aug 26, 2019 at 7:05 pm

    American citizen by birth? Was he an a American who was approached to be converted? Or as a child or teenager who could enter the country with real looking documents and had quick access to getting his citizenship thru marriage or documents that were “deepstated” from the top, if they had contacts that arranged his processing needs. Curious why they stopped him, was he a danger, had he committed a violent crime or aided one, from which country did he arrive? I guess I will never know all of his privileges, or details, but if he left he was able to leave he may not have returned. This immigration of a population that follows the jihadi doctrine should have prevented this million or so problem. If he is a jihadi he is a muslim. And they get taught by the pious ones. Usually they fly in at major airports or walk over border from Mexico or fly in to the 8 mile away landing strip in Texas.?

  7. AP says

    Aug 27, 2019 at 6:51 am

    The Quran says, take no kafir as a friend, and lay in wait to strike at his neck. I don’t think that we need this religion or its believers. Just saying. Look at how disgusting the muslims in congress are.

  8. Eric Jones says

    Aug 27, 2019 at 8:47 am

    What American city did Chhipa calll home? How did his life come to this? May I suggest Minniapolis or Deaborn Michigan or Broolyn NY. He may have become radicalized online. He himself used digital platforms to call for jihad.

    Yes muslim methods of deception deserve more attention.

    Eric

    • Mario Alexis Portella says

      Aug 27, 2019 at 11:02 am

      Well said! Let’s take a look at other cities, too!

  9. Angemon says

    Aug 27, 2019 at 11:59 am

    And while we still don’t know much about which American city this suspect called home or how his life came to this, it’s safe to assume the FBI had this man on its radar for quite a while before realizing he was gone.

    Discarding the possibility of foul play, the FBI .- or any other law enforcement organization – only has so much …

  10. Lorensacho says

    Aug 27, 2019 at 3:42 pm

    Is it possible to report on terrorism without blaming the Left?

    • gravenimage says

      Aug 27, 2019 at 4:45 pm

      If the Left did not do so much enabling of Islam this would not be an issue.

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