Six Russian nationals suspected to have terror ties to ISIS have been arrested in a coordinated sting operation spanning Los Angeles, New York and Philadelphia, The Post can exclusively reveal.
Two ICE sources confirmed to The Post they arrested the six people, who hail from Tajikistan, over the last week after the FBI contacted the agency to warn it.
Part of the investigation featured a wiretap which revealed one of the now-arrested individuals was talking about bombs, the sources said.
"Remember the Boston marathon [bombing]? I'm afraid something like that might happen again or worse," one of the sources told The Post.
The target who was subject to the wiretap was previously released by federal authorities at the southern border with a court date next year, but it has since emerged he has potential ties to ISIS, sources said.
In a joint statement, the Department of Homeland Security and FBI told The Post: "Over the last few days, ICE agents arrested several non-citizens pursuant to immigration authorities.
"The actions were carried out in close coordination with the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Forces. The individuals arrested are detained in ICE custody pending removal proceedings ... The FBI and DHS will continue working around the clock with our partners to identify, investigate, and disrupt potential threats to national security. "
Take a guess as to how they entered the country.
Get this -- they crossed what was formerly the southern border illegally.
Sorry to blow your mind with that unexpected reveal.
Bill Melugin
@BillMelugin_
BREAKING: Per federal source familiar, ICE, in conjunction w/ the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force, arrested 8 Tajikistan nationals w/ suspected ISIS ties in NYC, LA, and Philly in recent days. I'm told all 8 crossed the southern border illegally, received "full vetting", and had no initial derogatory information that flagged. I'm told derogatory info/potential national security concerns flagged later on - apparently after release into the US. Source was unable to say when and where they crossed illegally into the US.
All are now in ICE custody pending removal proceedings and an active federal investigation.
This was initially scooped by @JennieSTaer & New York Post, who report at least one of the individuals was caught on a FBI wiretap talking about bombs.
FBI/DHS joint statement to @FoxNews
"Over the last few days, ICE agents arrested several non-citizens pursuant to immigration authorities. The actions were carried out in close coordination with the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Forces. The individuals arrested are detained in ICE custody pending removal proceedings. As the FBI and DHS have recently described in public and partner bulletins, the U.S. has been in a heightened threat environment. The FBI and DHS will continue working around the clock with our partners to identify, investigate, and disrupt potential threats to national security."
White House officials praised Biden for what they're dubbing "the flytrap strategy," to draw all foreign terrorists into the American heartland where they will receive welfare benefits and sometimes surveillance.
The rescued Israeli hostages were beaten almost every day.
The Israeli hostages who were rescued at the weekend were beaten while in Hamas captivity and left malnourished by a lack of food, the doctor in charge of their treatment has revealed.
"It was a harsh, harsh, experience, with a lot of abuse, almost every day," Dr Itai Pessach told CNN at the Sheba Medical Centre in Ramat Gan outside Tel Aviv. "Every hour, both physical, mental, and other types, and that is something that is beyond comprehension."
Noa Argamani, 26, Almog Meir Jan, 22, Andrey Kozlov and Shlomi Ziv, 41, were all kidnapped from the Nova music festival in southern Israel on Oct 7 and taken to Gaza.
According to Dr Pessach, the hostages were moved on several occasions and kept under the watch of different guards. The supply of food and water was unstable and there were periods where they got almost no food at all.
"They had no protein, so their muscles are extremely wasted, there is damage to some other systems because of that," he said.
He added that the "combination of the psychological stress, malnutrition" as well as "medical neglect, being limited to space, not seeing the sun" had all had a significant effect on their health.
Here's the reaction of a Muslim professor at a California college.
Radical Muslims are always crying about "backlash" -- reprisals made against innocent civilians.
And in all remaining hours, radical Muslims are defending, encouraging, and championing violent attacks on innocent civilians.
Choose one (1) position. And bear in mind, the position you choose for others is the position you choose for yourself.
Biden officials can't stop saying they've been "clear" in their warnings to the Real Middle East Terrorists -- Israel.
In further news from Colonized America:
I don't know what this woman did to get yoiked by the cops, but I imagine she deserved it.
This isn't America, but it soon will be. The Global Intifada does not stop at borders. At least it doesn't under "President" Open Borders Forever.
Doing the thuggishly ignorant anti-Jewish bullying that Americans just won't do:
How stupid -- and racist -- do you have to be that yours is the only culture in the world to combine the basic sound ch with ai and now you own those phonemes?
brb, calling China to ask if they've already copyrighted the ch + long I sound.