Illegal Alien from Lebanon Caught at Border Admits He Is Hezbollah, Hoped to Make a Bomb

An illegal alien from Lebanon was apprehended crossing our southern border near El Paso, Texas, by Border Patrol agents on March 9.

Basel Bassel Ebbadi, 22, was asked what he was doing in the United States. He said he was going to New York and hoped to make a bomb. “I’m going to make a bomb.” He admitted he is a member of Hezbollah.

During a sworn interview, Ebbadi said he trained with Hezbollah for seven years. He said he was an active member guarding weapons locations for another four years.

According to ICE documents:

Ebbadi trained to be a jihadi to kill people that [were not moslem].

Displaying arrogance and threatening Border Patrol personnel was not very smart. But was Ebbadi’s task to absorb our attention and open the door for another whose task is to perform the dirty work? The arrogance of those coming to the United States to do us harm must be recognized for all it could possibly be.

A surge in illegal aliens whose names match names on the terror watchlist entering the United States has been reported by Border Patrol agents. The number has escalated to record levels. It makes sense because the number of illegal aliens entering the United States since Biden [assumed his position] has been at historic levels.

Hezbollah is an Iran-backed terror group. It has launched missiles into northern Israel since the start of the Israel-Hamas war that has killed about a dozen IDF soldiers and seven civilians.

The question is not if but when something horrible will happen because of trained terrorists living in our country. Joe Biden has blood on his hands from the increase in crime from illegal aliens around the country. The illegal aliens known as gotaways run away before they are apprehended. There is no information on them at all, including from where they came and where they went once they crossed the border.

In fiscal year 2022, Border Patrol agents apprehended 98 individuals that matched the terror watchlist at both the southern and northern border. Almost twice the number were apprehended (172) in the 2023 fiscal year. Fiscal years end on September 20. In the first four months of 2024, 59 were apprehended.

To compare those numbers to the Trump administration years, the total number of people on the terror watchlist encountered between fiscal years 2017 and 2021 was 30 people. The criteria to land on the list has never been disclosed but it was expanded after 2021.

Ebbadi had no documentation though he reported entering Sweden, Ecuador, and Panama this year.

Ebbadi said he was fleeing Lebanon because he “didn’t want to kill people,” adding “once you’re in, you can never get out.”

Ebbadi didn’t have documents when he entered the U.S., claiming they were robbed “with a knife” while he was in Costa Rica, according to the ICE documents.

He also admitted to using a fake birthday and name in Sweden, in Ecuador—where he claimed his father resides—and Panama this year.

He said he had originally hoped to go to New York and then move around the country.

Ebbadi was placed in isolation. He was referred to the Tactical Terrorism Response Team (TTRT) for an interview because he was making “terroristic threats to personnel.”

He is allegedly marked for deportation but it is not clear to which country he will be returned.

In the meantime, this is proof that the terrorists from countries who wish to do us harm are here. This one did not randomly decide to make the trip to the United States on his own. He is a part of a terrorist network. He admitted it. They are coming here with impunity because they can.

Final thoughts: Unless the confession was tortured out of him—which it likely was not—this catch and confession seem to have been too easy. Why would a trained terrorist so easily disclose his mission?

I expect this was a ruse, a decoy and we should take this as further warning of imminent harm.