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ISIS plotted to send terrorists through US-Mexico border
ISIS plotted to smuggle English-speaking terrorists through the Mexican…By Lia Eustachewich
June 7, 2019 | 8:10am | Updated June 7, 2019 | 11:06am


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ISIS plotted to smuggle English-speaking terrorists through the Mexican border to carry out a financial attack that would “cripple” the US economy, according to a new report.

Details of the terror group’s failed plan to exploit the southern border emerged in a confession last month from one recruit, Abu Henricki, who ultimately refused to go along with the mission.
“They were going to move me to the Mexican side [of the US southern border] via Puerto Rico. This was mastermind[ed] by a guy in America. Where he is, I do not know,” Henricki admitted to the International Center for the Study of Violent Extremism. “That information, the plan came from someone from the New Jersey state from America. I was going to take a boat [from Puerto Rico] into Mexico. He was going to smuggle me in.”
In the 90-minute interview on May 12, Henricki said he was enlisted to join ISIS by its intelligence wing, known as the emni, in 2016.
“What they wanted to do, basically, is they wanted to do financial attacks. Financial attacks to cripple the [US] economy,” Henricki said in the interview published by Homeland Security Today.
“They have their system of doing it,” the dual Canadian-Trinidadian citizen added. “It wasn’t me alone. They were sending you to Puerto Rico and from Puerto Rico [to Mexico].”
Henricki said he was booted from ISIS and thrown into a prison where he was tortured because he refused to carry out the plot.
“Please be advised, I was not willing to do it,” he said. “But this is one of their wicked, one of the plans that they had and which I would like to think I foiled the plan by not being part of it.”
Henricki said he wasn’t privy to specific details about the planned attack but that it was clear people were carefully recruited for the purported attack.
“They wanted to use these people [to attack within the US] because they were from these areas,” he explained, referring to English speakers from North America.
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