War On Terror: The head of U.S. Southern Command has warned lawmakers that IS is radicalizing converts and other Muslims in Latin America and could train and send them north via human traffickers.
Gen. John Kelly issued his warning in a hearing Thursday before the Senate Armed Services Committee on defense appropriations for fiscal 2016.
He's concerned that in addition to the Iranian terrorist puppet Hezbollah being active in Latin America, the Islamic State is promoting and recruiting for jihad against the United States in the region.
"Last year, IS adherents posted discussions on social media calling for the infiltration of the U.S. southern border," Kelly told lawmakers.
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| “Last year, ISIS adherents posted discussions on social media calling for the infiltration of the U.S. southern border,” Marine Gen. John Allen told lawmakers last Thursday. AP |
He added that while no evidence of IS recruits using this entry route has been seen thus far, he was "deeply concerned that smuggling networks are a vulnerability that terrorists could seek to exploit."
So why would IS, with so many of its trainees possessing Western passports, seek to use "coyotes" to transport their minions into the U.S.? Not every IS trainee has a passport, and tracking those who enter the U.S. to do us harm is less likely if they hide among the flood of "immigrants" the Obama administration is openly encouraging.
The war in Syria has thus far attracted roughly 100 foreign fighters from the Caribbean who could easily make their way here, Kelly said. A hundred might not seem like a lot until we remember just 19 Muslims brought down the World Trade Center and attacked the Pentagon, killing 3,000, on Sept. 11, 2001.Read the rest of the story HERE.
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