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Sunday, March 17, 2024
Report: US border patrol nabbed Hezbollah man headed to New York ‘hoping to make a bomb’
A Lebanese man arrested by US border patrol near the Mexico border on March 9 admitted to being a member of the Hezbollah terror group, The New York Post reports.
According to the report, the man was caught trying to sneak over the border and said that he was heading to New York and “hoped to make a bomb.”
The post cites internal US immigration documents that showed that the man, named as 22-year-old Basel Bassel Ebbadi, said in an interview that he had “trained with Hezbollah for seven years and served as an active member guarding weapons locations for another four years.”
Illegal migrant from Lebanon told border authorities he’s a Hezbollah terrorist and hoped ‘to make a bomb’ in US https://t.co/ADuy2s0D7n pic.twitter.com/ICqSaUlOsM
— New York Post (@nypost) March 17, 2024
