'Middle Eastern' woman caught 'surveilling' U.S. facility
More suspicious incidents along Mexican border
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Judicial Watch, the government-watchdog group that previously has issued a number of reports on suspicious events along the Texas-Mexico border, including one that cited an ISIS training camp there, says there have been more suspicious incidents.
Including one just days ago where a “Middle Eastern woman” was caught spying on and making drawings of a federal facility.
She explained she was making the drawings of the Port of Mariposa run by the Customs and Border Patrol “because she’s never been to the border before,” federal officials revealed.
The report from the federal Department of Homeland Security that was obtained by Judicial Watch said three people eventually were released after being questioned. One in the group, Gabriel Mathew Schivone, reported he was there “just looking around.”
It was Leila Abdelrazaq who was making the sketches, and she, according to the report, resisted giving officials her sketch book because she “would rather not.”
“During the inspection of the Abdelrazaq sketching book, CBPOs noticed the book contained writings in English and Arabic language,” the federal report said, according to Judicial Watch. “There were drawings of what appeared to be vehicle primary inspection area and an additional drawing of pedestrian turn stile gate depicting video surveillance cameras above the gate.”
While federal officials have denied the Judicial Watch reports about ISIS activities, and terrorist apprehensions, in the Texas-Mexico border area, WND reported when lawmakers expressed fears the global jihadist organization actually was linking up with deadly Mexican drug cartels.
The free WND special report “ISIS Rising,” by Middle East expert and former Department of Defense analyst Michael Maloof, will answer your questions about the jihadist army threatening the West.
Such a partnership would not only help to facilitate the smuggling of jihadists into the U.S. but could ultimately translate into a devastating terrorist attack on American soil, such as an electromagnetic pulse, or EMP, catastrophe.
The Judicial Watch report on the ISIS camp had said “sources that include a Mexican Army field grade officer and a Mexican Federal Police inspector” had discussed the ISIS location, but officials with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the U.S. Northern Command and the Texas Department of Public Safety all denied it.
What followed were several reports of terrorists being caught in the area, too.
Now comes Judicial Watch’s report on the surveillance of the federal facility, which followed closely on two other “separate – and equally alarming – incidents” in the same vicinity.
Judicial Watch said just a few weeks ago it found a report that “five young Middle Eastern men were apprehended by the U.S. Border Patrol in Amado” some 30 miles from Mexico.
“Two of the men were carrying stainless steel cylinders in backpacks, alarming Border Patrol officials enough to call the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for backup. DHS officially denies this ever occurred, but law enforcement and other sources have confirmed to JW that the two men carrying the cylinders were believed to be taken into custody by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI),” that report said.
Startlingly, names of only three were reported, Judicial Watch said, with the others identified as “unknown subjects.”
“In all my years I’ve never seen that before,” a veteran federal law-enforcement agent told Judicial Watch.
And only a week before that, one man from Afghanistan and five from Pakistan, the same home country as San Bernardino terrorist Tashfeen Malik, were arrested in Patagonia, a ranch town only 20 miles from the border.
“Federal authorities publicly confirmed those arrests after local media learned about them,” the organization reported.
WND reported last spring when JW issued its report on an ISIS camp.
“The exact location where the terrorist group has established its base is around eight miles from the U.S. border in an area known as ‘Anapra’ situated just west of Ciudad Juárez in the Mexican state of Chihuahua. Another ISIS cell to the west of Ciudad Juárez, in Puerto Palomas, targets the New Mexico towns of Columbus and Deming for easy access to the United States, the same knowledgeable sources confirm,” Judicial Watch reported.
WND reported in the fall of 2014 Judicial Watch sources said four “Islamic terrorists” were captured in Texas in just 36 hours.
It was about that time that Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., confirmed in a TV interview that jihadists with the Middle Eastern group ISIS were caught coming into the U.S. from Mexico.
He said his information came from the Border Patrol.
“They were caught at the border … therefore, we know that ISIS is coming across the border,” he said. “If they catch five or 10 of them, we know there are dozens more that did not get caught.”
The free WND special report “ISIS Rising,” by Middle East expert and former Department of Defense analyst Michael Maloof, will answer your questions about the jihadist army threatening the West.
At the time, one Texas sheriff said was confident he could handle the threat.
“If there are ISIS fighters that may already be in the United States, or in your area who’ve crossed the border, what’s your message to them?” CNN’s Don Lemon asked Midland County Sheriff, Gary Painter.
“If they rear their ugly heads, we’ll send them to hell,” Painter said.
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