Posted on 12/04/2015 2:19:59 PM PST by jazusamo
Five young Middle Eastern men were apprehended by the U.S. Border Patrol this week in an Arizona town situated about 30 miles from the Mexican border, law enforcement and other sources told Judicial Watch.
Border Patrol agents spotted the men crossing a ranch property in the vicinity of Amado, which is located about 35 miles south of Tucson and has a population of 275. Two of the Middle Eastern men were carrying stainless steel cylinders in backpacks, JW's sources say, alarming Border Patrol officials enough to call the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for backup. A multitude of federal agents descended on the property and the two men carrying the cylinders were believed to be taken into custody by the FBI.
Only three of the men's names were entered in the Border Patrol's E3 reporting system, which is used by the agency to track apprehensions, detention hearings and removals of illegal immigrants. E3 also collects and transmits biographic and biometric data including fingerprints for identification and verification of individuals encountered at the border. The other two men were listed as "unknown subjects," which is unheard of, according to a JW federal law enforcement source. "In all my years I've never seen that before," a veteran federal law enforcement agent told JW.
The disturbing incident comes just days after six men--one from Afghanistan, five from Pakistan--were arrested in nearby Patagonia, a quaint ranch town that sits 20 miles north of the Mexican border city of Nogales. Federal authorities have confirmed the November 17 arrests and a local news outlet published a story that includes an official statement from the Border Patrol. Special Agent Kurt Remus in the Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) Phoenix headquarters told JW that the agency's Joint Terrorism Task Forces vetted and interviewed the six men and determined that there were "no obvious signs of terrorism" so they were returned to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody.
However, Special Agent Remus told JW that there is no record of this week's incident in Amado and that he knew nothing about it. JW also put in a call to DHS headquarters, but received no response. In the last year JW has broken a number of stories involving serious terrorist threats on the southern border that were disputed on the record by various Obama administration officials. Among these is an April report--confirmed by high-level Mexican authorities--about ISIS operating camps near the U.S. border in areas known as Anapra and Puerto Palomas west of Ciudad Juárez in the Mexican state of Chihuahua.
Last fall JW was the first to report on an Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) plot orchestrated from Ciudad Juárez to attack the U.S. with car bombs or other vehicle borne improvised explosive devices (VBIED). As a result of JW's reporting Ft. Bliss, the U.S. Army base in El Paso, increased security. The threat was imminent enough to place agents across a number of Homeland Security, Justice and Defense agencies on alert. A few weeks later JW reported that four ISIS terrorists were arrested by federal authorities and the Texas Department of Public Safety in McAllen and Pharr.
They just wanted to go scuba diving in the Rio Grande.
I must agree with you, told the wife that the other day and said stay ready to go. Not afraid just not stupid. Even so come quickly Lord Jesus.
Why sneak in. They should just come in with Hussein’s Syrian ISIS groups. That way they are assured of getting into the nation. Then they can simply disappear.
Naw. They were woks that they got from the Red Chinese. They like fried rice and veggies mixed with goat meat.
Go WTH? There is no place to run. No holes to crawl in.
Yes, my friend, “Come, Lord Jesus, Come.”
If it turns out to be something get ready for another round of attacks on Christians and defenses of Muslims in the MSM and government.
solid rocket engines?
Poison Gas? Antrax? Nukes? Ebola? What was in the cylinders? Or were they just interesed in Skin Diving?
Those canisters are just waterproof containers to hold their granola and trail mix for their hiking trips.
These guys were caught—how many got through the border and are now in our cities and malls? ISI has a Christmas Present for us—I fear.
Don’t these days make you want to join some sort of underground resistance movement? I mean, even the surrender-monkey French managed to defeat SOME of the Nazis invading their Homeland back in the day.
Grrrrrrrr!
Meant to Ping you to Post 51 too, Jaz.
Even if they were gonna make bombs, it’s only because they were offended by something we did or a Christmas tree or the color red or ...
You get it wrong. Where they speak of goat meat it’s a sexual thing.
Well, absent other info, we have to assume they were empty. I wasn’t thinking—now I’m interested. What was in the cylinders? There must have been something... shrapnel can be had locally.
Looks like a shaped penetrator charge, but what would and old man know.
Your line of thinking aligns with mine.
Thanks Diana, I’m with you. Thankfully we’re well armed in spite of 0bammy and the Rats.
With the state of our border, we can only imagine how many more got through and are now loose and ready to Jihad for Allah.
Some one needs to key up a Bagdad Bob picture with the words below it saying, “Nothing here, everybody move on”
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