This account in the New York Post is confused, not to say incoherent. It relates to the apprehension of a Lebanese man named Basel Bassel Ebbadi near the Mexican border:
A Lebanese migrant who was caught sneaking over the border admitted he’s a member of Hezbollah, he hoped to make a bomb, and his destination was New York, The Post can reveal.
Basel Bassel Ebbadi, 22, was caught by border patrol on March 9 near El Paso, Texas. While in custody he [was] asked what he was doing in the US, to which he replied: “I’m going to try to make a bomb,” according to a Border Patrol document exclusively obtained by The Post.
In a subsequent sworn interview, Ebbadi said he had trained with Hezbollah for seven years and served as an active member guarding weapons locations for another four years, according to internal ICE documents.
Ebbadi’s training focused on “jihad” and killing people “that was not Muslim,” he said.
Since Ebbadi is described as being 22 years old, that would mean he started with Hezbollah at age 11. But was he really a would-be terrorist? The Post also reports:
Ebbadi said he was fleeing Lebanon because he “didn’t want to kill people,” adding “once you’re in, you can never get out.”
Ebbadi is world traveler, having been in Sweden, Ecuador, Costa Rica and Panama, all apparently (although this isn’t clear, either) within the last year. International travel doesn’t seem to be difficult for Hezbollah members. Ebbadi is slated for deportation, although God only knows to what country.
It is hard to tell how much of a threat Mr. Ebbadi was, if any. But millions of illegals have crossed the southern border in the last few years. Most recently, many have come from the Middle East. Undoubtedly some among them do not wish us well. Having deliberately obliterated our southern border in order to allow millions of unvetted illegals to enter, Joe Biden and the Democrats can only pray that they get to November without a major terrorist attack perpetrated by some of those whom Biden fecklessly invited in.
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