Terrorist Caught Illegally Crossing Border Says He Was ‘Here to Make a Bomb’

Published on March 20, 2024

A member of the Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah was caught entering the country illegally at the Texas border, where he told agents he was plotting to make a bomb once settled in the country, according to a March 19 federal court document. Basel Bassel Ebbadi, a Lebanese national, told a Texas border agent that he was “here to make a bomb” and that he spent several years training with the Hizballah terrorist group, an alternate name for Hezbollah, and he “was taught to kill people who were not Muslim.” The group’s main operations are in Lebanon, Mr. Ebbadi’s native country....