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Known and Suspected Terrorists Entering US in Unprecedented Numbers: Rep. Higgins

Known and suspected terrorists are entering the United States in unprecedented numbers amid a surge in illegal immigration, according to Rep. Clay Higgins (R-La.). In an interview with NTD, the Louisiana representative stated that the Biden administration is providing “absurd” figures on the actual number of known and suspected terrorists entering America through its borders. Higgins, a decorated law enforcement…


Number of Suspected Terrorists Nabbed at US-Mexico Border Spikes Under Biden

More suspected terrorists have been captured at the U.S.-Mexico border amid an unprecedented surge in illegal immigration under President Joe Biden. Fifty people with records in the FBI’s Terrorist Screening Database have been nabbed by Border Patrol agents at the southern border between ports of entry between Oct. 1, 2021, and May 30, according to newly…


CBP Reveals Number of Possible Terrorists Encountered at US Border

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) publicized the number of terrorism-related border encounters in the past fiscal years—for the first time since President Joe Biden took office. It came under mounting pressure from Republicans. Such individuals, either known or “reasonably suspected” to be previously been involved in terrorism, are part of a federal terror watchlist identified…


Terrorists in Afghanistan Strike Pakistan Army Post, Kill 3

ISLAMABAD—Terrorists in Afghanistan fired heavy weapons across the border into a Pakistani military outpost overnight, killing three personnel, the army said Saturday, in the latest violence to rattle the volatile region. A firefight ensued with the terrorists firing toward the army post in Pakistan’s rugged North Waziristan region, and several were killed, the statement said….


In Depth: Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Soft Spot for Drug Dealers, Pedophiles and Terrorists

“Justice demands this result.” That’s what Ketanji Brown Jackson said in 2011 after the U.S. Sentencing Commission knocked as much as three years off the prison terms of crack-cocaine convicts. As vice chair of the commission, Jackson believed the nation’s drug laws were overly harsh and especially “unfair” to blacks. A month earlier, Jackson had…


Terrorists Targeting Civilian Guard Groups in Nigerian Villages

The air was a chill 55 degrees at midnight on Jan. 12, about as cold as it gets on the forested savannah of Nigeria’s north Plateau state, but John Rivi couldn’t think about the cold. Despite the darkness he could see the flashlights of 500 terrorists with assault rifles heading for his village of Ancha,…


Nigerian Terrorist Warlords Offer Truce After Government Bombs Forest Hideouts

The Nigerian Air Force used recently-acquired fighter bombers to bomb the first hideouts of terrorist bandit gangs, prompting gang warlords to release abductees and extends peace offers to the government. Two feared bandit kingpins in battle-scarred Zamfara State are now offering to call it quits, provided they can escape the long reach of the law….


Terrorists Target Traditional Leaders to Capture Territories in Nigeria

Lawmakers in Nigeria’s north-central Plateau state have alleged terrorists are planning to expand their territories by targeting traditional leaders known as “monarchs.” Terrorists fleeing airstrikes by the US-supported Nigerian military in the northwest region are attempting to foist a government of their own through kidnapping and assassination of local town leaders, according to lawmakers speaking…


Canadian Extradited to US on Charges He Funded Terrorists Pleads Guilty

ShutterstockAn Edmonton man who was extradited to the United States to face charges he helped fund Islamic State terrorism has pleaded guilty in exchange for a 20-year prison sentence. A statement from the United States Department of Justice says that according to his plea agreement in federal court Friday, Abdullahi Ahmed Abdullahi admitted he provided…


Mass Jail Break in Nigeria Threatens Terror Spike

JOS, Nigeria—A spectacular prison break on Nov. 26 in Jos, Nigeria has embarrassed authorities and sparked fears of a terrorist crime spree in Africa’s most populous nation. At least 252 inmates escaped after a black-clad, six-man team dropped from a speeding van at 5:20 p.m. and blasted through a gate lock with bullets and overpowered…