How many more alarming events have to occur before we officially get nervous here? On the border with Mexico, a Middle Eastern woman was caught surveilling and sketching the US port of entry there. She was drawing in a sketchbook the port of entry, the turnstiles and the surveillance cameras around the area. She said it was to commemorate visiting the American/Mexican border or some such nonsense. Two others were apprehended in connection with the woman as well. This was the day before the San Bernardino attack. Wild coincidence huh? She was writing in both Arabic and English. This should be setting off alarm bells all over the place, but DHS says it is nothing to worry about. I’d start worrying America. Really I would.
From Allen West:
We’re just learning of another troubling incident at our own U.S. border with Mexico. Government watchdog organization Judicial Watch reports that federal law enforcement sources apprehended a Middle Eastern woman caught surveilling a U.S. port of entry along the Mexican border. She apparently had a sketchbook with drawings of the port of entry vehicle inspection area, complete with video surveillance cameras. The drawings included both Arabic and English notes.
The woman has been identified as 23-year-old Leila Abdelrazaq, according to a Customs and Border Patrol (CPB) report obtained by JW this week. Abdelrazaq appeared to have two accomplices, a 31-year-old man named Gabriel Schivone and a 28-year-old woman named Leslie Mcafee. CBP agents noticed the trio “observing the facilities” at the Port of Mariposa in Nogales, Arizona on December 2. Schivone was first noticed inside the entrance of the pedestrian area while the two women stood outside by the entry door, the CPB document states.
When federal officers asked Abdelrazaq why she was drawing sketches of the facilities she “stated because she’s never been to the border,” according to the CBP report. Abdelrazaq resisted showing officers the sketchbook, citing personal reasons, but subsequently handed it over. “During the inspection of the Abdelrazaq sketching book, CBPOs noticed the book contained writings in English and Arabic language,” federal officers write in the document. “There were drawings of what appeared to be vehicle primary inspection area and an additional drawing of pedestrian turn stile gate depicting video surveillance cameras above the gate.” The report proceeds to reveal that the drawings were “partial and incomplete.”
So many terrorist threats are occurring now that we don’t know which way to turn. Seveal weeks ago, five young Middle Eastern men were apprehended by the US Border Patrol in Amado, an Arizona town situated about 30 miles from the Mexican border. Two of the men were carrying stainless steel cylinders in their backpacks, alarming Border Patrol officials enough to call DHS for backup. DHS officially denies this ever occurred, but law enforcement and other sources have confirmed to Judicial Watch that the two men carrying the cylinders were believed to be taken into custody by the FBI. A week earlier six men — one from Afghanistan, five from Pakistan — were arrested in nearby Patagonia, a quaint ranch town that sits 20 miles north of the Mexican border city of Nogales. Federal authorities publicly confirmed those arrests after local media learned about them. So, tell me again how what this woman was doing does not look like she was casing the border for an attack? I get a really bad feeling we are running out of time here.
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