Somali Who Executed Canadian Terror Attack Entered U.S. Via Mexico
OCTOBER 24, 2017
The Somali terrorist who stabbed a Canadian police officer and ran over four pedestrians a few weeks ago entered the United States through the Mexican border and was released by Obama’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS), allowing him to continue his journey north. The ISIS operative, Abdulahi Hasan Sharif, was ordered deported, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) spokeswoman told various media outlets recently, but was released on an “order of supervision” and the feds never saw him again.
Sharif entered the U.S. in 2011 through the San Ysidro port of entry in California without documentation and was briefly held at the Otay Mesa Detention Center in San Diego, a local newspaper reported. A year later he crossed the border into Canada and settled in Edmonton after being granted refugee status. On September 30 he slammed into an Edmonton police officer with his car then got out of the vehicle and repeatedly stabbed the cop with a knife. After fleeing the scene, Sharif stole a truck and deliberately mowed down four pedestrians. Canadian authorities found an ISIS flag in his car and have charged him with multiple counts of attempted murder, criminal flight causing bodily harm and possession of a weapon. Two years ago, Canadian authorities investigated the 30-year-old terrorist for espousing extremist views. It’s disturbing that Sharif’s northbound trek took him through the U.S.-Mexico border.
As part of an ongoing investigation into cartels, corruption and terrorism, Judicial Watch has for years reported that Islamic extremists are entering the country through Mexico and that ISIS is operating in border towns just miles from American cities. Judicial Watch launched the project in 2014 by exposing a sophisticated narco-terror ring with strong ties to ISIS and connections running from El Paso to Chicago to New York City. Two of the FBI’s most wanted were embroiled in the operation that also had deep ties to Mexico. Less than a year later, Judicial Watch reported that ISIS is operating in a Mexican border town just eight miles from El Paso, the result of Islamic terrorists joining forces with drug cartels and human smugglers knowns as “coyotes.”
When Judicial Watch reported that Mexican cartels were smuggling foreigners from countries with terrorist links into a small Texas rural town, federal authorities publicly denied the story was true. Never the less, high-level sources on both sides of the border confirmed to Judicial Watch that foreigners, classified as Special Interest Aliens (SIA), were being transported to stash areas in Acala, a rural crossroads located around 54 miles from El Paso on a state road – Highway 20. Once in the U.S., the SIAs waited for pick-up in the area’s sand hills just across Highway 20. At the time a Texas Department of Public Safety report leaked by the media had already confirmed that for years members of known Islamist terrorist organizations had been apprehended crossing the southern border.
Last year a high-ranking DHS official told Judicial Watch that Mexican drug traffickers help Islamic terrorists stationed in Mexico cross into the United States to explore targets for future attacks. Among the jihadists that travel back and forth through the porous southern border is a Kuwaiti named Shaykh Mahmood Omar Khabir, an ISIS operative who lives in the Mexican state of Chihuahua not far from El Paso. Khabir trained hundreds of Al Qaeda fighters in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Yemen and has lived in Mexico for more than a year, according to information provided by Judicial Watch’s government source. Now Khabir trains thousands of men—mostly Syrians and Yemenis—to fight in an ISIS base situated in the Mexico-U.S. border region near Ciudad Juárez, the intelligence gathered by Judicial Watch’s source reveals. Staking out U.S. targets is not difficult and Khabir actually bragged in an Italian newspaper article that the border region is so open that he “could get in with a handful of men, and kill thousands of people in Texas or in Arizona in the space of a few hours.” In the same article Mexico’s top diplomat, Foreign Affairs Secretary Claudia Ruiz, said “this new wave of fundamentalism could have nasty surprises in store for the United States.”
While much of the American mainstream media ignores that Sharif made it to Canada via the U.S.-Mexico border, it’s hardly surprising considering Islamic extremists have been infiltrating the country through the famously unprotected region for years. Referring to the recent Canadian attack, a think-tank dedicated to investigating the operations, funding, activities and front groups of Islamic extremists worldwide writes: “Fears about a terrorist using the U.S.-Mexican border as a gateway for an attack have been realized.”
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The rifle buck deer hunt runs until Oct. 29, so hunters and their family and friends still have time to get into Utah's backcountry and enjoy the fall weather while pursuing deer!
Slightly Slower Deer Hunt Opener
Utah’s rifle buck deer hunt ends Oct. 29
After one of the best deer hunts in Utah in decades, the 2017 general rifle hunt has come out of the gates a little slower in some parts of the state.
A harsh winter in the northern parts of Utah, plus pleasant weather during the opening weekend of this year’s hunt, might be among the reasons why.
Top half of Utah
The northern, north-central and northeastern parts of Utah saw the biggest change. Randy Wood, wildlife manager for the Division of Wildlife Resources in northern Utah, says biologists staffed four check stations over the opening weekend. A total of 144 deer came through the stations on Saturday and Sunday. In 2016, a total of 282 deer came through the same four stations during the first two days of the hunt.
“This past winter was a tough one on the Box Elder, Cache, Ogden and Kamas units,” Wood says. “All of these units received lots of snow and experienced long periods of extremely cold temperatures. On the Cache unit, more than 90% of the fawns died.”
More fawns dying this past winter should result in hunters taking fewer 1½-year-old deer this fall. And that’s exactly what biologists saw at the check stations in northern Utah: 22% of the deer taken were 1½ years old, 21% were 2½ years old and 57% were older than 2½ years of age.
Usually, the percentage of 1½-year-old deer taken is much higher.
Riley Peck and Dax Mangus, DWR wildlife managers in north-central Utah and northeastern Utah respectively, reported similar results. By the end of the first day of the hunt in 2016, Peck says about 100 deer were checked at a check station in Spanish Fork Canyon. This year, biologists checked just over 70 deer by the end of Saturday.
In addition to some fawns dying over the winter, Peck says the weather during the opening weekend of this year’s hunt might have been a factor. “The weather was great,” he says, “and that likely pushed deer deeper into the trees, making it more difficult for hunters to find them.”
Bottom half of Utah
While the hunt was slower in the upper half of the state, the hunt was faster in parts of southern Utah. Guy Wallace, DWR wildlife manager in southeastern Utah, staffed a check station at LaSal Junction near the LaSal Mountains. He says the overall number of bucks taken was down a bit from 2016, but not by much. And he says the number of 1½-year-old bucks taken was actually up a bit from 2016.
“Southeastern Utah didn’t experience the type of winter the northern parts of the state did,” Wallace says. “Conditions were milder, and plenty of fawns made it through the winter.”
Teresa Griffin, DWR wildlife manager in south-central and southwestern Utah, reported mixed results: in some areas, hunters did well while in other areas, the hunt was slower.
“Overall,” she says, “the hunt was slower than last year, with fewer yearlings in the mix. Hunters were taking lots of 2- to 3-year-old deer, though.”
At the check station at Pine Valley, 65 bucks were checked by the end of the weekend. About 100 deer were checked at the checkpoint as Sand Ledges. “[DWR biologist] Jim Lamb said some dandies were checked through from units that included Thousand Lakes, the Boulder and Mount Dutton,” Griffin says.
DWR field biologists also say some big deer were taken on the Pahvant unit.
Still time to hunt
Utah’s general rifle buck deer hunt runs until Oct. 29. If you have a permit for the hunt, there’s still time to get into Utah’s backcountry and enjoy the fall weather while pursuing mule deer in Utah.
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ADVISORY: Secretary Perdue to Attend National FFA Convention
(Washington, D.C., October 24, 2017) – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue will travel to Indiana TOMORROW, Wednesday, October 25th to participate in a series of events at the National FFA Convention in Indianapolis, Indiana. Among the events, the Secretary will moderate the #SpeakAg Dialogues and deliver remarks at Opening Session 1B.
Secretary Perdue Moderates the #SpeakAg Dialogues
WHAT: Secretary Perdue will moderate the #SpeakAg Dialogues, a digital, interactive forum on major agricultural issues.
WHEN: Wednesday, October 25th at 1:30 p.m. EDT
WHERE: Indiana Convention Center, Room 137-139, 100 South Capitol Avenue, Indianapolis IN 46225
Secretary Perdue Holds a Media Availability
WHAT: Secretary Perdue will hold a media availability with reporters.
WHEN: Wednesday, October 25th at 6:45 p.m. EDT
WHERE: Bankers Life Fieldhouse, Pacers Square (4th floor), 125 South Pennsylvania Street, Indianapolis IN 46204
Secretary Perdue Delivers Remarks at Opening Session 1B
WHAT: Secretary Perdue will deliver remarks during Opening Session 1B.
WHEN: Wednesday, October 25th at 7:25 p.m. EDT
WHERE: Bankers Life Fieldhouse, 125 South Pennsylvania Street, Indianapolis IN 46204
*NOTE: Media interested in covering the Secretary and/or participating in the media availability must RSVP to press@oc.usda.gov by 9:00 a.m. EDT TOMORROW, Wednesday, October 25th.
