Secret U.S. Efforts in Latin America Keep Jihadis Out
by Todd Bensman December 2, 2019
Originally published under the title "Part II: New Study Explains Why Islamic Terrorists Have Not Attacked Through America's Southern Border."
Acting on a U.S. Homeland Security Investigations Wanted alert in June 2019, Nicaragua arrested four migrants from the Middle East who had just crossed their border on a journey north to the U.S. border. The American alert had listed two Iraqis and an Egyptian as possible ISIS terrorists. Another Egyptian had been picked up with the three.
Knowledgeable intelligence community sources said an informant based in Brazil had fingered the men as ISIS operatives, which prompted DHS to send its Wanted alert to countries along known smuggling routes that connect the Middle East to the U.S.'s southern border. Nicaragua handed the men over to Costa Rica, where U.S. intelligence and law enforcement officers no doubt got at them.
No update on the suspected ISIS operatives has become public.
Read more at: https://www.meforum.org/60042/islamist-border-infiltration-success-begets-success#.Xemr36vAF2c.twitter
Nicaragua apprehended them, not exactly our friend and handed them to Costa Rica, who probably are our friend.
