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From ABC News
Former police chief recalls foiling border terror case
It was about 2 a.m. on a moonless October night in 1987 when the police chief of a small northern Vermont town spotted a man carrying a black bag and walking down the railroad tracks from Canada toward a waiting van about a mile south of the border.
The man turned out to be linked to a Lebanese extremist group. And in his bag, later recovered from a ditch, were a ski mask and a propane-canister bomb.
"If it had been two minutes later, they would have been in the van and gone on their way, and I'd have never known the difference," recalled Richford's long-retired police chief, Richard Jewett, who won numerous awards for apparently foiling an attack. "I guess luck was on my side."
COMMENT:-
Seven convictions in 42 years (that's one every six years on average) with ZERO crossing the US/Mexico border.
Some "The Terrorists Are Flooding Across Our Borders" crisis!
But, even if there is such a crisis, then Mr. Trump isn't staring it in the face when he looks at the southern end of the situation. One would think that the President of the United States of America would know north from south - but ...
Former police chief recalls foiling border terror case
It was about 2 a.m. on a moonless October night in 1987 when the police chief of a small northern Vermont town spotted a man carrying a black bag and walking down the railroad tracks from Canada toward a waiting van about a mile south of the border.
The man turned out to be linked to a Lebanese extremist group. And in his bag, later recovered from a ditch, were a ski mask and a propane-canister bomb.
"If it had been two minutes later, they would have been in the van and gone on their way, and I'd have never known the difference," recalled Richford's long-retired police chief, Richard Jewett, who won numerous awards for apparently foiling an attack. "I guess luck was on my side."
COMMENT:-
Seven convictions in 42 years (that's one every six years on average) with ZERO crossing the US/Mexico border.
Some "The Terrorists Are Flooding Across Our Borders" crisis!
But, even if there is such a crisis, then Mr. Trump isn't staring it in the face when he looks at the southern end of the situation. One would think that the President of the United States of America would know north from south - but ...