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 Red State: ...   As Musk explained, "The evil knuckleheads picked the wrong vehicle for a terrorist attack. Cybertruck actually contained the explosion and directed the blast upwards. Not even the glass doors of the lobby were broken." That was also why more people weren't hurt or hurt more severely. So, Musk and Tesla should also get a hat tip for the strength of their vehicle. So, what may have been an effort to gore Musk and Trump appears instead to have blown back on the suspect. Musk retweeted how, in fact, the people behind it might have inadvertently created a Tesla ad to show the worth of the car. ... It looks like the perp blundered into making an ad for Musk's Cybertruck.  It is apparently an electric vehicle that is stronger than conventional trucks.  I suspect the perp thought he was making a statement against Musk and it backfired. 

It would be nice if the media could determine why the perp rented a Cybertruck for his attack. The New Orleans attacker used a Ford F-150 electric truck. That is also an odd choice. See also: Las Vegas Cybertruck Explosion Suspect ID'd and WOW, His Connection to the NOLA Terrorist Is DAMNING

 Fox News: The FBI on Thursday said investigators now believe the New Orleans terror attack suspect acted alone, despite previously considering a possible link to the Tesla Cybertruck explosion outside President-elect Trump's Las Vegas hotel. The FBI made the announcement at a press conference on Thursday. They have identified Shamsud-Din Jabbar as the driver who crashed a rented truck into a crowd of New Year's revelers on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, killing at least 14 people and injuring dozens more. He was killed in a shootout with police afterward. "As you know, there's also an FBI investigation in Las Vegas. We are following up on all potential leads and not ruling anything out. However, at this point, there is no definitive link between the attack here in New Orleans and the one in Las Vegas," FBI Deputy Assistant Director of the Counterterrorism Division Christopher Raia told reporters Thursday. ... It is odd that the two attacks happened near the same...

Newsmax: Rep. Beth Van Duyne, R-Texas, told Newsmax on Wednesday that the FBI has "been ignoring these radicalized Islamists in our country, and we have no idea how many cells are there." Earlier Wednesday, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, 42, rammed a pickup truck into a crowd on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, killing at least 15 people and injuring dozens of others before being shot to death by police, according to authorities. An Islamic State flag was found on the vehicle's trailer hitch, and FBI is investigating the evidence as a potential link to an act of terrorism. Van Duyne said as the facts come out the attack "sounds like it's more than just a lone wolf." "They were saying that you have people who are looking at not only who had rented the truck, but there were three men and a woman who they've got video of putting on explosive devices in the truck that this looks like it was a cell," Van Duyne said during an appearance on "The Chris Salced...

 Fox News: Federal authorities believe a Jordanian migrant caught trying to enter the U.S. through its northern border is a terrorist, according to ICE Enforcement Removal Operations in Seattle. Mohammed Hasan Abdellatif Albana, 41, was captured near the northern border of Lynden, Washington, the agency said in a Wednesday press release. It is unclear when or where he snuck into the country. A U.S. immigration official identified Albana as a " known or suspected terrorist ," the agency said. Albana was sent back to Jordan on November 15 after immigration proceedings, per the agency. " ERO Seattle is committed to the removal of noncitizens who pose a risk to the national security of the U.S. Our officers perform these removals dutifully as a part of a federal law enforcement effort to protect Pacific Northwest Communities," said ERO Seattle Field Office Director Drew H. Bostock. During the Biden administration, Border Patrol agents have intercepted 300 migrants who...

 Fox News: South Dakota Republican Sen. John Thune on Sunday threatened to slap the International Criminal Court (ICC) with sanctions if it did not drop its application for an arrest warrant against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Thune – who was selected Wednesday to be the next Senate Majority Leader once the GOP takes the upper chamber come January 2025 – warned that if the current Democratic leader does not take on the international court, he will. "If the ICC and its prosecutor do not reverse their outrageous and unlawful actions to pursue arrest warrants against Israeli officials, the Senate should immediately pass sanctions legislation, as the House has already done on a bipartisan basis," Thune wrote on X. "If Majority Leader Schumer does not act, the Senate Republican majority will stand with our key ally Israel and make this – and other supportive legislation – a top priority in the next Congress." In May, the ICC issued applications for arrest...

 Headline USA: ISIS-Linked Houston Man Arrested, Charged w/ Planning 9/11-Style Terrorist Attack 'Individuals or groups cannot use social media to provide material support to ISIS or other terrorist organizations.. .' ...

 The Federalist Wire: ... Former President Donald Trump launched a $10 billion lawsuit against CBS on Thursday, targeting the network’s handling of an interview with Vice President Kamala Harris. Trump’s legal team contends that the interview, aired as part of CBS’s “60 Minutes” program, was “deceptively” edited to favor Harris and undermine Trump’s 2024 campaign. The lawsuit, filed in the Northern District of Texas, alleges that CBS misled voters by broadcasting two different answers from Harris regarding the conflict between Israel and Hamas. According to the filing, the network aired Harris’s initial, less direct response during a “Face the Nation” preview on October 6, only to air a more polished statement during the full interview the next day. In the preview, Harris commented, “Well, Bill … the work that we have done has resulted in a number of movements in that region by Israel that were very much prompted by or a result of many things, including our advocacy for what needs ...

 PJ Media: BREAKING: Arsonists Destroy 'Hundreds' of Ballots Inside 'Secure' Ballot Boxes in Oregon and Washington   ... ...  Joe Kent has been depicted by the left and his opponent as a white supremacist nutter. Kent is anything but. He's a Gold Star husband whose wife was killed as part of a U.S. special forces outfit in Syria —AFTER DONALD TRUMP HAD ISSUED THE ORDER TO GET ALL U.S. TROOPS OUT OF THAT COUNTRY. You'll recall how that went down. Mark Milley and those generals ignored Trump's order. Kent is a Green Beret soldier who went to work as a CIA paramilitary operator. After his wife Shannon died, he went back home to the Northwest to make sure his two young boys, barely out of toddlerhood, could be close to their grandparents. Now remarried and running for congress for the second time, Kent has been smeared by Antifa leftists and his opponent. His crime is serving the country and supporting Donald Trump. ... This is more evidence that drop boxes are...

 NY Post: NYC bracing for widespread anti-Israel protests planned on one-year anniversary of Oct. 7 terror attack  This is tantamount to siding with the Nazis who engaged in killing millions of Jews because they were Jews.  Israel's response to that mass murder attack was wholly appropriate and aimed at the perpetrators of that atrocity.  The protesters should be ashamed of themselves.

  PJ Media: One illegal alien who recently tried to breach a U.S. Marine base was on the terror watch list. Ah, to live in Biden-Harris’s America. The Biden-Harris administration’s open border policies have resulted in an increasing number of terrorists and potential terrorists entering the United States. Thanks to Sleepy Joe Biden and Cackling Kamala Harris, America-hating, bloodthirsty terrorists are invading our communities to cause havoc. Unfortunately, the government doesn’t plan to punish or hunt down these terrorists with any zeal. There are too many J6 protesters, anti-LGBTQ moms, and Trump allies to go after. There are Jan. 6 protestors in jail for years without trial and pro-lifers whom the government is aggressively prosecuting. But when a Jordanian migrant tried to breach Quantico's military base, he was released, even though it had now been revealed that he's a potential terrorist. ... Biden's open borders immigration policy is absolutely nuts.  It is one of...

 DC Daily Journal: ... The Biden administration has caught and released at least 99 illegal immigrants whose identities matched the terrorism watch list, according to a congressional report Monday. They were caught by the Border Patrol along the southern border from 2021 through 2023 and were subsequently released as part of the Biden administration’s more relaxed approach to immigration, the House Judiciary Committee said. Another 34 illegal immigrants flagged by the watchlist were still being held as of June. Since the start of fiscal 2021, Border Patrol agents at the southern border have detected 375 people whose names triggered the watchlist, including 282 from 2021 through 2023. That indicates that more than one-third of terrorism watchlist migrants are being released. Those encountered spanned 36 countries, including the terror hot spots of Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Somalia, Syria, Tajikistan and Yemen. At least 27 of the terrorism suspects were granted bond by an immigrat...

 Red State: Kamala Harris' Scoff at Idea of Terrorists Crossing Border Reveals Dangerous Level of Incompetence ...   As if that wasn't enough, Harris went on to call the wall a "vanity project" for Trump and claimed that the border situation was a "crisis of the president's own making." She added, “We don’t need to build a wall. It is not an emergency.” At the time, Harris was right. She and President Joe Biden inherited a locked-down southern border with the number of suspected terrorists attempting to  enter the country at nearly zero . Fast forward five years. The non-emergency that  eventual border czar Harris  dismissed is now unquestionably a full-scale invasion. The number of suspected terrorists attempting to enter the U.S. illegally has  spiked a whopping 2,500 percent during  the Biden-Harris administration. So far, in Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 alone, there have been 93.  ... Terrorists invading the country couldn't be farther from the truth...

 Newsmax: CNN reported Sunday that several U.S. military bases in Europe had detected terror threats on the continent. A spokesman for U.S. European Command, Cmdr. Dan Day told CNN that USEUCOM is "constantly assessing a variety of factors that play into the safety of U.S. military community abroad. As part of that effort, we oftentimes take additional steps to ensure the safety of our service members. For operational security reasons we will not get into specific measures, but we remain vigilant." The U.S. Army garrison in Stuttgart, Germany, where USEUCOM is headquartered, raised its alert level to Force Protection Condition "Charlie" on Sunday. In its report, CNN noted it is "not clear what intelligence triggered the heightened security." Nonetheless, in light of the Paris Olympics in July and the European soccer championships in Germany, both countries are said to be putting in place active security measures. Germany is planning to roll out an additio...

  Daily Wire: Eight foreign nationals with suspected ties to ISIS were reportedly arrested in recent days in multiple U.S. cities after they illegally entered the country through the southern border. The New York Post, which broke the story, cited unnamed “ICE sources,” reporting, “part of the investigation featured a wiretap which revealed one of the now-arrested individuals was talking about bombs.” Out of the eight suspects, at least two entered the U.S. last spring, and one of those men used the Border Patrol app (CBP One) to claim asylum, sources told NBC. Critics and immigration hawks say that the app was created by President Joe Biden’s administration to expedite the mass importation of illegal aliens who come to the U.S. primarily for economic opportunities and abuse the asylum system by claiming that they have credible fear for their safety back home, which shields them from deportation. Personnel from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) made the arrests over the we...

  NY Post: Six Russian nationals suspected to have terror ties to ISIS have been arrested in a coordinated sting operation spanning Los Angeles, New York and Philadelphia, The Post can exclusively reveal. Two ICE sources confirmed to The Post they arrested the six people, who hail from Tajikistan, over the last week after the FBI contacted the agency to warn it. Two others who were part of the same group were also arrested after being under surveillance for “several months” by a multi-agency Joint Terrorism Task Force, according to NBC . Part of the investigation featured a wiretap which revealed one of the now-arrested individuals was talking about bombs, the sources said. “Remember the Boston marathon [bombing]? I’m afraid something like that might happen again or worse,” one of the sources told The Post. The target who was subject to the wiretap was previously released by federal authorities at the southern border with a court date next year, but it has since emerged he has pot...

 NY Post: By refusing repeated chances to answer simple questions about a May 3 incident at Quantico Marine Corps base , the Biden administration has essentially confirmed one of America’s worst — and most politically consequential — nightmares related to the ongoing border crisis. Two illegal immigrants just attempted a terror attack on US soil. We know that a Jordanian who illegally crossed the border joined up with another Jordanian who had overstayed his visa, and drove a box truck to the gates of Quantico. They claimed to be Amazon delivery drivers , and tried to access a site that houses the FBI training academy, military officer training schools, and military criminal investigations and intelligence commands. Quick-thinking military police stopped the truck, and charged the men with trespassing before turning them over to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ... The government refuses to say if either of these men were on a terror watch list, if they made any confessions ...

Mark R. Levin @marklevinshow · 2h Well said, Gov. Burgum Quote Trump War Room @TrumpWarRoom · May 9 GOV. DOUG BURGUM: We've always had a rule: don't negotiate with terrorists. Joe Biden has gone way beyond that—he's negotiating *FOR* the terrorists. None of this would have happened under President Trump. 0:00 / 0:58 77 838 2.5K 67K