A
new report by a government watchdog agency says jihadists are partnering with
Mexican drug cartels along the U.S.-Mexican border, preparing to carry out
precision attacks in American cities.
Judicial Watch cites confidential U.S.
and Mexican law enforcement sources for the disturbing report, which builds on
earlier JW reports shining light on the jihadists’ exploitation of the porous
border policies of President Barack Obama.
As
part of the plan, Islamists have arrived recently at the Monterrey
International Airport situated in Apodaca, a city in the Mexican state of Nuevo
León, about 130 miles south of the Texas border, JW reports.
“An
internal Mexican law enforcement report obtained by Judicial Watch confirms
that Islamic terrorists have ‘people along the border, principally in Tijuana,
Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León and Tamaulipas.'”
U.S.
intelligence sources have also warned that the defeat of ISIS in Iraq and Syria
will lead to many of those jihadists escaping and relocating into Western
Europe and the United States.
But
JW reported as early as April 2015 that ISIS had established a training camp just
a few miles from El Paso, Texas, in an area known as “Anapra” just west of
Ciudad Juárez in the Mexican state of Chihuahua.
Just
‘waiting for the order’
According
to the JW report, cartel informants have told law
enforcement that “they are only waiting for the order and the times to carry
out a simultaneous attack in the different ports of entry or cities of the
United States of America.”
Drug
cartels have a working “agreement” with Islamic terrorists, according to a
high-ranking Mexican police administrator, who told JW that men from the Middle
East arrive regularly into the country to train jihadists.
Judicial
Watch sources include veteran law enforcement officials in the U.S. and Mexico
as well as longtime undercover informants who have worked for intelligence
agencies in both countries. They can’t be identified out of fear for their
safety.
One
seasoned Mexican law enforcement official told Judicial Watch that a key cartel
informant verified picking up various Middle Eastern men from “evil groups” at
the Monterrey Airport in the last few days alone. JW described the informant as
“extremely credible” having also worked for several U.S. government agencies.
U.S.
about to reap what it has sown
John
Guandolo, a former FBI counter-terrorism specialist who now heads up the
private consulting businessUnderstanding the Threat, said the U.S. is
about to reap the bitter fruit it has been sowing under the last several
administrations – the Clintons, Bushes and Obamas — all of whom invited the
Muslim Brotherhood into the White House as an inside policy player.
As
a result, all references to Islam deemed offensive to Muslims has been scrubbed
from FBI training manuals and Muslim Brotherhood entities like CAIR have been
providing advice on how to deal with terrorism.
Now,
terror cells are here and ready to strike, as documented by Judicial Watch.
“This
is a symptom of the much bigger ongoing problem – the catastrophic failure of
U.S. officials to identify the threat and deal with it,” Guandolo told WND.
Not
only have they not identified the threat, Obama and his predecessors have
invited the threat into the government.
“Because
we will not associate ‘terrorism’ with Islam as a part of our national security
directives and overall strategy, Islamic organizations, mosques, enclaves, and
communities continue to serve as support networks, training sites and safe
havens for jihadis across the United States,” Guandolo said.
He
said Muslim leaders control the false narrative that terrorism has nothing to
do with Islam, and they put themselves in the driver’s seat to be the gateway
for all information getting to government leaders having to do with Islam.
Law
enforcement neutered under Obama
“Islamic
leaders get the federal government — the White House and DOJ especially — to
bear down on local/state governments and law enforcement to let the FBI handle
all counter-terrorism investigations, then strip the FBI of all factual
understanding of the real threat and tie their hands so they cannot be
aggressive in any case,” Guandolo said.
Philip
Haney, a retired Homeland Security officer who co-authored the whistleblower
book “See Something Say Nothing,” said the global
Islamic movement led by the extremist Muslim Brotherhood is anticipating that
they will encounter a far less friendly regime in Washington and they are
filing some of their most militant assets into place.
“They’re
laying the groundwork on the response to the new administration. And what is
that response going to be? Attacks,” Haney told WND. “Like we’re seeing around
the world, generated from the same sort of activity we’re seeing here. This is
a turning point in terms of the Muslim community in North America because they
are now being upgraded in their understanding and their expectation of what’s
expected of them as devout, observant Muslims.”
Guandolo
said the U.S. Department of Justice has been the most ardent supporter of the
Islamic movement in America. It has aggressively gone on the offensive, suing
any jurisdiction that takes any proactive measures to pursue the Islamic threat
at the local level. This has weakened law enforcement’s ability to do its job.
The DOJ has pushed Muslim Brotherhood organizations into local jurisdictions to
do training for state and local law enforcement agencies, sponsored by U.S.
attorneys’ offices.
Exploiting
gaps on the way to ‘zero hour’
In
this environment, Guandolo said terrorists use “Grand Canyon-size gaps in our
security apparatus” to develop routes, methods and locations to move people,
money and equipment in preparation for what the Muslim Brotherhood calls “zero
hour.”
Evidence
of this strategy was entered into the court record during the largest terrorism
financing trial ever successfully prosecuted in American history – the Holy
Land Foundation trial in Dallas, Texas, in 2007-08.
“These
routes, methods, and locations will be used by many nefarious entities be they
cartels, terrorists, or gangs. In the end, though, they will lead to
devastating results in American towns,” Guandolo said.
“It
is nothing less than concerted and incremental efforts by heads of the key
agencies of the United States — DHS, FBI, CIA, the White House
counter-terrorism adviser — and the president himself to make America
tragically vulnerable to our enemies,” he adds. “This is treason and sedition,
and we will pay for allowing it for so long.”
Former
Congresswoman Michele Bachmann said Obama’s national security team has either
known or should have known about the existence of Islamic terror cells on U.S.
soil and along the border, “yet willingly allowed them to use the U.S. as a
safe haven.”
“To
think President Obama would fail to destroy every vestige of a U.S.-based
Islamic terror cell is both jaw dropping and unthinkable, especially in light
of the numerous U.S.-based Islamic terror attacks that have already occurred in
the U.S. on his watch,” Bachmann told WND.
“Unfortunately,
Obama’s failures are now President Trump’s responsibilities,” she added. “Mr.
Trump will have to extinguish this evil from American soil — there is no other
choice because Islamic supremacism has one goal — to conquer our land. We have
to destroy this evil before they can destroy our liberty.”