Five Middle Eastern Men Arrested Near Southern Border With Bomb-Making Materials


The two men that weren’t listed in the database were labeled as “unknown subjects”, which isn’t something that usually happens. Their arrest would coincide with reports earlier this year of ISIS bases operating near the United States border in Mexico.

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 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 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 there were reports that the Islamic State was orchestrating a plot from Ciudad Juarez to attack the United States with car bombs. The threat was real enough to place agents from various U.S. agencies on alert.

Source: judicialwatch.org

 



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