A savage ISIS decapitator arrested in Hungary somehow got his hands on a refugee passport that gave him unrestricted air travel privileges, a senior Hungarian government official told me in an exclusive interview in Budapest. As ISIS fighters and supporters scatter to an unmapped diaspora, the question is raised: who else among them might be achieving the legal ability to travel freely in Europe - … [Read more...] about Exclusive: ISIS Commander Arrested in Hungary Held Refugee Passport Enabling Unrestricted Air Travel
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Twitter series on mandatory catch-and-release stirs coverage and controversy but settled nothing
Daniel Horowitz of The Conservative Review was among several journalists who wrote about a series of my tweets during the first week of March 2019, which chocked up hundreds of thousands of impressions after the likes of Michelle Malkin and Anne Coulter, followers of my account, retweeted them. The tweets were based on secret verbal policy orders that a credible U.S. Citizen and Immigration … [Read more...] about Twitter series on mandatory catch-and-release stirs coverage and controversy but settled nothing
On the Newell Normand show: Designating Mexican Cartels as Terrorist Organizations
On The Buck Sexton Show, I-Heart Radio
Interviewed about asylum officers being ordered to ignore fraud and abuse to let all Central American family units in. Scroll forward to the 1 hour seven minute mark … [Read more...] about On The Buck Sexton Show, I-Heart Radio
Secure Freedom Radio interview re: Trump travel ban
Start at about Minute 20 … [Read more...] about Secure Freedom Radio interview re: Trump travel ban
From Panama and Costa Rica: Video and Reports from Terror Travel Threat Investigation
President Donald Trump's claims that Middle Eastern migrants were traveling Central American routes to the U.S. border, among them some Islamic terrorists, spawned a confused national debate that never quite moved past disputes over just the basic facts. Such as: Can, have, and do migrants from countries of terrorism concern, where Islamic terrorist groups operate, actually travel through Latin … [Read more...] about From Panama and Costa Rica: Video and Reports from Terror Travel Threat Investigation
Iran’s Push into Nicaragua
For Hearst Newspapers MONKEY POINT, NICARAGUA -- The second military helicopter in as many days hovered over the jungle and then landed to a most unwelcome reception from several dozen angry Rama Indian and Creole villagers. Rupert Allen Clear Duncan, a leader of some 400 Creole who live along the shoreline,confronted the foreigners, who were dressed in suits and military uniforms that … [Read more...] about Iran’s Push into Nicaragua
The Quiet American
By Todd Bensman, Special for D Magazine, March 2007 GamalAbdel-Hafiz was once one of the most valuable counter-terrorism assets the FBI had. He turned up the names of half the Al Qaida conspirators who planned the USS Cole bombing in 2001. He was the agent who, with a single skillfully executed interrogation in Bahrain, broke open the Lackawanna Six case in 2002, which President Bush touted … [Read more...] about The Quiet American
Breaching America Series
Since 9/11, authorities have apprehended thousands of “special interest aliens” from Islamic countries crossing U.S. borders. If authentic war refugees could use the underground railroad, why not equally determined terrorists? For Hearst News, Bensman retraced the steps of an Iraqi war refugee who swam the Rio Grande on April 29, 2006. Bensman traveled to Syria, Jordan; Guatemala, Mexico, and the … [Read more...] about Breaching America Series
The Siege of Sarajevo: Inside the longest and most destructive city siege since World War II
On background: My first trip into the besieged city of Sarajevo began with a hairy ride on a bus in December 1992 with a group of Italian pacifists. We started out from the Bosnian town of Kiseljak just 30 miles away in Croat-controlled territory. The two Serb front lines around the city (one facing the Croats and another facing the interior of Sarajevo with a supply corridor in-between) … [Read more...] about The Siege of Sarajevo: Inside the longest and most destructive city siege since World War II