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Terror Threat to America |
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By Joshua Philipp |
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The United States and other Western countries are being flooded with illegal immigrants. Many of the so-called asylum-seekers come from a handful of countries under socialist dictatorships. Others are coming from countries that have been destabilized by gangs and terror networks. Yet what’s less talked about is the nexus between these socialist regimes, organized crime, and global terrorism. It's long been known that terror networks use drugs to finance their operations. The Mexican cartels get their precursor chemicals mainly from China. Money laundering is also handled by Chinese agents. The lower level distribution is often taken care of by street gangs. The full network forms multi-billion dollar industries in drugs, human trafficking, money laundering, arms trading, and more. Entire countries use this alternative global economy as a way to bypass sanctions and advance their own global interests. Global terrorism is a key part of all this. The U.S. State Department has defined 68 foreign terrorist organizations. These are all the known and designated terrorist organizations in the world. And 25 of them, which is more than one-third, are involved in the drug trade. Most of these groups have ties to either Iran or the Chinese Communist Party. In my work as an investigative journalist, looking into CCP front operations, I found that the Tongs—Chinese fraternal organizations—played a key role in the regime’s operations to subvert the United States. Recently, these even became secret Chinese police stations operating in the United States. Under many Tongs are the Triads. The Chinese mafia. And like most groups of this nature—like the Mexican cartels, or Hamas, or others—they often have both legitimate and illegitimate operations. They might have humanitarian efforts, for example. Some networks have hospitals, or community outreach programs. But they also have the flip side. And they will use the legitimate side to gain access to people of power. The CCP has a government branch called the United Front Work Department that uses espionage and "leadership capture." Leadership capture includes efforts to compromise our politicians and business leaders. Chinese agents invite politicians, business leaders, and university professors to visit China. They attempt to compromise and control them in order to then compromise and control the systems and individuals who steer nations. This forms the basis of CCP espionage and subversion. And similar systems exist for other countries. Now, when I was researching the CCP spy networks, one of the big questions I had was why do they care about drugs? Why do they use criminal networks? Well, part of that is destabilization. They can create crime and they can poison the youth of a nation. With fentanyl they can kill more Americans each year than we lost in the Vietnam War. But even beyond this, it gives them an alternative economy, outside of international regulations and sanctions. That alternative economy isn’t just money. It’s also a system—people, businesses, and institutions. One of the key interests for the CCP on a military level, is that control of the drug trade gives them control of smuggling networks. It gives them access to people willing to break the laws of a country. It gives them access to people willing to kill, and even to powerful figures willing to harm or betray the people of their own country. When you combine these with those smuggling channels, it means they can bring whatever they want into a country without alerting the authorities. Hezbollah’s Ties in Latin America There’s also deeper interconnections between various networks, including between terror groups and cartels that are otherwise not involved in terrorism. The Wilson Center reported in 2018 that, “For years, Hezbollah has had business links to drug cartels, especially in South America. Its operatives have helped move narcotics and laundered the proceeds of sales to finance its operations in Syria as well as its terrorist wing.” |
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A lot of this goes back to 2010 when the U.S. war on terror was a bigger topic in the country. Business Insider reported that “Islamic terrorist groups are setting up shop in Mexico and forming alarming ties with the country's brutal drug cartels.” The alert stemmed from a leaked Tucson Police Department memo from September 2010. The memo noted that Hezbollah had established operations and even a large stockpile of weapons in Mexico, including rifles, hand grenades, C4 explosives, and anti-tank munitions. And why was Hezbollah in Mexico? Well, because of its proximity to the United States. The Tucson Police memo noted that “Hezbollah’s main goal is to cast out any form of Israeli rule and/or occupation. Due to the U.S.’ political and financial support of Israel, Hezbollah regards our nation as a viable target.” With this knowledge, wouldn’t the U.S. work to root out the Hezbollah terror influence in Latin America? Politico reported in 2017 that President Barack Obama allegedly stopped any action against Hezbollah in order to strike deals with Iran. The investigations into Hezbollah and Mexican cartels were reopened under President Donald Trump. In 2018, then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced a Transnational Organized Crime Task Force to target five groups of interest: MS-13, the C-J-N-G, the Sinaloa Cartel, the Clan del Golfo, and… Hezbollah. The United States named the drug cartels and Hezbollah as the greatest threats we face. Terror Threat Through the U.S. Border We’re already in an undeclared war with the Chinese Communist Party. In fact, the CCP has openly declared a people’s war on the United States. We’re already in a proxy war with Russia over Ukraine. China and Russia have a “no-limits” agreement. And war with either of them is war with the bloc of nations they align with. As I mentioned previously, and exposed in my documentary “The Final War” last year, the CCP has an agenda to pull the United States into four separate wars. One of those needs to be a war on terrorism. And with the recent terror attacks against Israel, it’s also possible that we’re now in a proxy war with Iran. That will be Hamas, Hezbollah, and the IRGC. Connected to that are the organized crime networks. There are concerns Hezbollah could engage in terror attacks against America, and it is known they already have weapons caches in Mexico. It’s documented that people with known ties to terrorism are illegally entering the country. The Department of Homeland Security published a report on illegal immigrants who were suspected terrorists in 2019. It calls them “Special Interest Aliens.” The report stated “There are thousands of individuals on the terrorist watchlist that traveled through our Hemisphere last year alone.” “The threat is real. The number of terror-watchlisted individuals encountered at our Southern Border has increased over the last two years. The exact number is sensitive and details about these cases are extremely sensitive.” In July this year, FBI Director Christopher Wray stated, “The FBI was also conducting approximately 4,000 investigations within its international terrorism program in fiscal year 2022." That’s a big increase. Remember, in 2017 the FBI had around 1,000 open investigations tied to ISIS. Now, with this in context, Hamas just issued a global call for terrorist attacks. Yet behind all of this—behind the cartels, behind the narco-terrorists, even behind their larger networks—are countries pulling the strings, which are now engaged in proxy wars with the United States. |
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