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Iran, Hezbollah Use Mexican Drug Cartels to Infiltrate US

Apr 3, 2020 3:00 pm By Rami Dabbas

Iran and its terror proxy Hezbollah are financing Mexican drug cartels, smuggling people into America and recruiting them (for pay) as sleeper jihadist cells.

The recruits are mainly immigrants to Mexico from the Middle East, mostly from Lebanon where Hezbollah is based.

The coordinated operation is part of Iran’s war on America.

While Iran and Hezbollah are known to be active in the drug trade further south in Latin America, many are unaware that Iran, through its proxy Hezbollah, finances money laundering operations and human smuggling through the Mexican drug cartels at the U.S. border.

The operation is founded on the known fact that the U.S.-Mexican border is easy to penetrate, with tens of thousands of illegal immigrants and asylum seekers from Mexico and other Latin American countries coming into the U.S. from Mexico every month.

In southern Chiapas in Mexico, there are Muslim communities. These communities are made up of Syrians and Lebanese who migrated to Mexico decades ago as well as recent Mexican converts to Islam. In addition, Islam is gaining a foothold and in southern Mexico, with indigenous Mayans converting by the hundreds.

These communities are funded in the Diaspora and all contain sleeper cells. With the help of Mexican drug cartels, they finance and traffic extremists to the United States.

Canada has also become their target after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau lifted the visa requirement for Mexican citizens.

For example, Ayman Juma, a Lebanese citizen linked to Mexican drug cartels and involved in the drug trade in Latin America and Mexico, is a member of the Hezbollah. He is also associated with al-Qaeda.

Juma has smuggled tons of drugs from Mexico to the United States. The money made is partially used to fund terrorism, especially to prepare terrorist attacks against Israel as well as Hezbollah’s activities in America.

Hezbollah also managed to smuggle 200 illegal Lebanese immigrants through Mexico to America. All of them are part of a network of Iranian and Hezbollah supporters.

After his arrest, Mahmoud Youssef Kourani, a Lebanese citizen who infiltrated the United States through the Lebanese-Mexican smuggling network, admitted to the FBI that he spent part of his time in the United States to raise funds to support Hezbollah’s activities. His efforts netted $40,000 for the terror group.

According to what Korani also told the FBI, his brother is the head of Hezbollah’s military division.

The smuggling network is a clear example of the symbiotic relationship between the Mexican drug cartels and Hezbollah. Salim Bougader, for example, ran a Lebanese smuggling network in Mexico where he successfully brought in many enemies of the U.S. into the country.

For example, one of the many smuggled in by Bougader worked for a Hezbollah-funded television station that glorified suicide bombers and was part of an anti-American propaganda machine during the time when U.S. soldiers were dying while serving in the Middle East.

Hezbollah, in cooperation with Mexican drug cartels, also smuggles drugs to Europe and the Middle East, as well as to the United States. According to the U.S. Justice Department, it is obvious that Hezbollah views America as a source of funds for its operations.

Due to their partnership, it would be reasonable to assume that Hezbollah is also complicit with the Mexican drug cartels that are responsible for killing tens of thousands in Mexico every year in drug-related violence.

Although the United States has one of the most powerful intelligence services in the world and is not located in the Middle East, radical Islamic terrorism continues to threaten America — especially through Mexico, which has the largest border with America and one that is relatively easily to penetrate.

This leads one to the conclusion that, at the very least, a border wall is needed to protect the U.S.’ national security interests from the likes of Iran and Hezbollah.

This article is cross-posted from the Clarion Project.

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  1. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    Apr 3, 2020 at 4:56 pm

    Remember that Hillary brought us the concept of hate crimes. The very concept enables the process of policing thought crimes, for what is hate but a thought. A continuous string of bad thoughts aimed at other people. Hate crimes, thought police. The great Englishman George Orwell must be spinning in his grave for what he saw and what he missed. Speaking of hate, let us turn to Iran. There are layers of insanity covering us now, the two thickest being the idea of diversity, whatever that is, and the idea of open borders. Shovel it onto me, layer after layer, more dirt, go ahead but I’m not dying, I won’t suffocate. I stand for America, I won’t lay in a self-made grave. Not because America is an exception nation, the exception nation, but because this country is about freedom, which is universal. Not a universal concept, but a great thing that be attained anywhere, here or even in Iran. Islam = hate, that’s stated clearly in the Holy Ko-Ran. But I won’t hate the Ko-Ran, I’ll love freedom. Here or there, or anywhere. May the glory of God help us all.

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 3, 2020 at 6:27 pm

      APF, I don’t think that Hilary coined the concept of “hate crimes”–but she certainly flogged the idea.

  2. DHazard says

    Apr 3, 2020 at 5:14 pm

    Organized crime was Muhammad’s livelihood. Not only is this 100% halal but they know the Mexican’s aren’t real Christians so they are free to do business with them. Don’t be fooled by all the cross tattoos, little statues of the Mother of God and the reflexive genuflecting. Don’t be deterred by anyone who would call that statement racist.

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 3, 2020 at 6:30 pm

      No, it’s not racist, DHazard. There are plenty of genuinely devout Mexican Christians, certainly, but this does not include savage Narco-terrorists.

  3. gravenimage says

    Apr 3, 2020 at 6:28 pm

    Iran, Hezbollah Use Mexican Drug Cartels to Infiltrate US
    ………………

    Thanks for that grim story, Mr. Dabbas.

  4. spiro says

    Apr 3, 2020 at 6:42 pm

    And the lunatics here in the US want open borders
    But I wonder if even a wall will help since previous administrations welcomed everyone now the enemy
    Is within

  5. somehistory says

    Apr 3, 2020 at 6:53 pm

    This has been going on for years…years of smuggling, drug smuggling, and people…and many of the moslims from Lebanon,,,,and elsewhere… belonging to the terror org (all of islam is a terror org), learn Spanish in order to seem to be just another Mexican, Honduran, Salvadoran, etc. from South America and not a terrorist from the ME.
    What is more, the moslim terrorists have been making big money with the drug smuggling for a very long time. That is one of the main ways they finance the terror acts. Terror is also where a lot of the money the afghan taliban make from selling their poppy goes.: Financing terror, And they laugh at Americans because so many are addicted to illegal drugs. They see these Americans as paying them to terrorize.

    • James Lincoln says

      Apr 3, 2020 at 8:10 pm

      somehistory says,

      “They see these Americans as paying them to terrorize.”

      Spot on, somehistory…

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 3, 2020 at 8:25 pm

      Yes–more suicidal behavior, on so many different levels.

  6. JM says

    Apr 4, 2020 at 12:10 am

    If there are DEA CIA or CBP reports on which this story is based I’d like to read them. Although I do not doubt we must be vigilant on both borders I think a greater threat of terrorist infiltration would be from Canada as they take in much more Muslims than Mexico and the northern border is much easier to penetrate (see Ahmed Ressam). Yes, Lebanese And some Syrians did immigrate in large numbers to Mexico but these were overwhelmingly Christian Arabs fleeing Muslim persecution. There is a very small Muslim population in Mexico (probably no more than 15,000 total out of a population of 120m which is much smaller than the US). Secondly, I don’t think the cartels would have scant need from millions from Iran as they take in billions from smuggling of narcotics every year. While the Cartels are hardly good Christians they also are not jihadis and would have little interest in supporting them. The motivation of the cartels is making money, why would they risk the wrath of increased scrutiny and US military involvement? Lastly most of the very few Muslims in Mexico are among a small minority of the indigenous Mayans to the far south who prescribe to an Islam often at odds with traditional Muslims (they would be considered heretics by most). Few are Salafist muslims and even fewer are Shiite.

  7. David Frankel says

    Apr 4, 2020 at 3:43 am

    This has been going on for quite a while actually. I remember reading an article in the Washington Times about this relationship back in 2006.

    But just remember, according to the supposedly “woke” left, if you want more stringent immigration laws & tighter border security, then you’re a “racist.”

    THIS is the kinda stuff EVERY American SHOULD be worried about!!!

  8. TimothyS says

    Apr 4, 2020 at 6:03 am

    Corruption begets corruption. Little coverups, compromises become systematic co-option.
    It reinforces the point that legal immigration has to be halted from Muslim countries. Something like 1% are coming into Canada trained in combat units. These migrants have organizationsal and family relations among each-other. That’s legal migrants.
    The Cartels provide support infrastructure, sources of financial laundering instruments, supply of weapons, transportation networks and blind eyes from corrupt officials on both sides of the border. Milita groups are piggybacking on the infrastructure which evolved among the narco-terrorists. They bit as brutal as any Islamist.
    The Cartels are also opportunistic and ready to be drawn into facilitating the work of jihadis.
    The punishment for such collaboration should be ruthless against the cartels. Resources are limited. The ones carrying out these activities should be top priority. Make it clear that even untouchable drug dealers. will pay dearly for that mistake.

    • David Frankel says

      Apr 4, 2020 at 6:14 am

      Agreed!!! The FIRST time an attack in the US happens with cartel support of ANY kind, we need to start sending Hellfires through windows & having our spec ops guys make some 3am house calls!!!

      Hell, we shoulda been doin that ALREADY!!! I’m kinda surprised we didn’t after the cartels shot up that Mormon motorcade of women & children last year.

  9. JonfromCA says

    Apr 4, 2020 at 11:39 am

    Obama is guilty again. He shut down a multi year investigation into Hezbollah’s drug trade here in the USA! He allowed them to sell their drugs here so they could finance their terrorists. Shameful. Even Politico admits he did it. Chief Drug Dealer in Charge.

    https://www.politico.com/interactives/2017/obama-hezbollah-drug-trafficking-investigation/

  10. OLD GUY says

    Apr 4, 2020 at 12:17 pm

    Close the southern border and revamp with common sense the immigration laws. No one should be allowed to immigrate to the USA that cannot provide for themselves, there should also be priorities for professional individuals and skilled workers. These immigrants should also come from countries that are pro western life styles. And let’s limit the numbers a year to a reasonable number.

  11. JM says

    Apr 4, 2020 at 1:08 pm

    I think the greater threat comes from our northern border which is much less defended. Most Syrian and Lebanese that immigrated to Mexico were Christians fleeing Muslim persecution. All of Mexico has maybe only 20k Muslims out of a population of 120m people. The religion of the cartels is money, of which they make billions each year from the drug trade. I can’t see why they would risk more US govt and military scrutiny by involving themselves with Iran against the US.

    Here’s an important story on the danger from Canada

    https://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/world/2018/november/canada-becoming-a-potential-base-for-terrorists-to-attack-the-us-nbsp

  12. Susan Craven says

    Apr 4, 2020 at 3:07 pm

    All over the US muslims have bought up and are running motels; most of them never did before, and since I was in the business, some told me they were financed from California. We live in a town of $4,000 and 5 out of 7 motels here were bought by muslims several years ago.

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 4, 2020 at 11:33 pm

      Around here most people running motels are Indian Hindus, not Muslims.

  13. Susan Craven says

    Apr 4, 2020 at 3:07 pm

    What do you suppose they use them for?

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