According to reports in an Italian newspaper, ISIS operative Shaykh Mahmood Omar Khabir has been training militants near Ciudad Juarez since 2015.
The newspaper quotes Khabir as saying the Southern Border is so easy to enter he “could get in with a handful of men, and kill thousands of people in Texas or in Arizona in the space of a few hours.”
The article claimed that ISIS was working with Mexican drug cartels.
Further information linking ISIS with operations in Mexico came after the arrest of Erick Jamal Hendricks, who was arrested last week and charged with “conspiracy to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization.”
