ALebanese migrant who was detained while trying to secretly cross the border admitted that he is a member of the terrorist group Hezbollah and that he hoped to reach New York to “make a bomb,” the New York Post reported.
Basel Bassel Ebbadi, 22, was detained by Border Patrol on March 9 near El Paso, Texas, and revealed in an interview with agents that he had “trained with Hezbollah for seven years and served as an active member monitoring the location.” of weapons for another four years.
“I’m going to try to make a bomb,” Ebbadi added while in custody, quoted in a Border Patrol document obtained by The Post.
