'I'M GOING TO MAKE A BOMB': Hezbollah Terrorist Caught at U.S. Southern Border; Report

Customs and Border Protection apprehended a member of the terrorist group Hezbollah at the U.S. southern border earlier this month; the man said he was headed to New York City to make a bomb.

Basel Bassel Ebbadi, 22, was caught by the US Border Patrol on March 9.

From The New York Post:

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.

But Ebbadi later claimed in an interview that he had been trying to flee Lebanon and Hezbollah because he “didn’t want to kill people” and said “once you’re in, you can never get out,” according to internal US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) documents.

Ebbadi said in a sworn interview after his arrest that he had trained with Hezbollah for seven years and served as an active member guarding weapons locations for another four years, the documents show.

Ebbadi’s training focused on “jihad” and killing people “that was not Muslim,” he said.

Conservative radio host and former California gubernatorial candidate Larry Elder shared the story on X, saying “BUT, HEY, TRUMP IS A THREAT TO OUR REPUBLIC!!!”

More over at The New York Post:

BUT, HEY, TRUMP IS A THREAT TO OUR REPUBLIC!!!

Illegal migrant from Lebanon caught at border admitted he’s a Hezbollah terrorist hoping ‘to make a bomb’ — and was headed for NYhttps://t.co/KN7eu87GLx#BidenBorderCrisis

— Larry Elder (@larryelder) March 18, 2024