Posted on 05/29/2024 3:29:44 PM PDT by Libloather
A former federal firearms instructor who worked at Marine Corps Base Quantico in Virginia is warning the strange arrest of two Jordanian nationals in a box truck at the base may have been a "dry run" to test security outside the facility ahead of a terror attack.
The same truck, had it been loaded with explosives, could have been a devastating weapon if it made it close enough to an occupied building, he warned.
"Driving the box truck was a dry run for driving a box truck that was not going to be empty the second time," said Dave Katz, a former DEA agent and the CEO and founder of Global Security Group. "Can I prove that? No. But it's like the 9/11 hijackers trying to get aboard planes with box cutters on other occasions prior to actually perpetrating the act."
According to the report from the federal government's 9/11 Commission, conspirators took cross-country test flights, smuggling box cutters onto planes before determining "the best time to storm the cockpit."
"It's their equivalent of a feasibility study," Katz said. "What would happen if we get off the highway in a box truck and try to get into the base?"
The two men had no weapons, no prior criminal records, and authorities have released no evidence that they had a terror-related motive. However, Katz said he doubts their cover story that they were contracted drivers for Amazon or that they could have made a wrong turn.
Amazon said it was looking into the matter but that it did not believe the duo were delivering anything on the company's behalf.
Two men, both from Jordan, arrived at the base in a box truck on May 3, allegedly posing as delivery drivers and attempting to get onto the base, according to authorities.
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Nice job.
They should have been shot to pieces. Are the base MPs even given loaded weapons?
Both gates to the main side of MCBQ at rush hour are extremely dangerous places to be if the terrorists aim for a mass casualty event.
I fear this is going to happen to the base I live outside of, but no will listen to me and think of me as the village idiot. All they have to do is somehow ram one of the fuel storage tanks and the entire will base will become a smoking crater, the old military housing included.
Just wait until those Chinese special operations units start going to work here. I just hope that the Air Force Security forces are prepared for what’s coming thanks to the idiot in the White House.
Good question.
“two Jordanian nationals in a box truck at the base may have been a “dry run” to test security outside the facility ahead of a terror attack.”
I thought most Jordanians were actually palestinians.
Over sixty THOUSAND Chinese men of military age have crossed the southern border since October.
Basically 60,000 Chinese soldiers are living in our country - and I doubt they’ll do dry runs. When they’re ready to attack- they’ll just do it. And people like you and people like other freepers will die with our last words being, “We told you so”.
Pretty much, pretty much
Most Jordanians are Jordanians. Jordan rejected the palestinians in 1949. That’s why they created Gaza.
I seen it described quite a bit differently. 80 percent of Jordanian residents are Palestinians, and the Jordanians had to violently push out the PLO who tried to take over the country.
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