An illegal alien who was caught attempting to cross the U.S.-Mexico border admitted to officials that he was part of an Islamic terrorist group.
The 22-year-old Lebanese national, Basel Bassel Ebbadi, attempted to enter the United States near El Paso, where he told U.S. Border Patrol agents that he was a part of the Islamic terrorist group Hezbollah.
According to Border Patrol documents obtained by The New York Post, while Ebbadi was in custody, agents asked him what he was doing in the country. Ebbadi informed agents that he was “going to try to make a bomb.”
Ebbadi was immediately placed in isolation and moved to the El Paso Sector’s Hardened Facility, where he would be interviewed by the Tactical Terrorism Response Team for making “terroristic threats to personnel.”
