It is emblematic of the deep crisis our nation faces today: after three and a half years of the Biden regime, an incident that should have been the focus of urgent attention from both politicians and the establishment media has gone virtually ignored. It involves what could be an urgent threat to our national security, and illustrates one of the dangers of erasing the Southern border. Such stories, however, are just the sort that the Democrats and their media lapdogs are determined to ignore, as they hope to keep as many Americans as possible in the dark about the extent of the damage they’ve done to the country until it’s far too late to do anything about it.
The latest ignored incident centers upon two Jordanians, Hasan Yousef Hamdan and Mohammad Khair Dabous, who tried to get onto Marine Corps Base Quantico in May under highly suspicious circumstances. Hamdan had just crossed illegally into the U.S. from Mexico in April. Earnest leftist multiculturalists need not fear, as no “racism” was committed: Hamdan and Dabous are somewhere in the U.S. today, so righteous leftists can sleep soundly at night. Can’t they?
The New York Post reported Thursday that Hamdan and Dabous are “charged with trying to breach Marine Corps Base Quantico,” which in a sane society would have warranted much more serious treatment. But this is not a sane society, and so they “posted thousands of dollars in bail and were allowed to leave federal custody.” They could be walking around in your neighborhood right now, but you can rest easy knowing that all the politicians who are responsible for getting us into this fix have abundant personal protection.
Hamdan and Dabous “were released from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention despite their immigration status — Hamdan had crossed into the country illegally in April and Dabous had overstayed his student visa and is subject to removal proceedings.” They were also released despite the fact that everyone is still in the dark about why they tried to get into Quantico on May 3.
The Post quoted an unnamed “federal law enforcement source” calling the pair’s attempt to breach Quantico security a “big-time intel failure, security failure.” He added: “If it wasn’t an act of terrorism, why aren’t the government officials releasing the details of this? What was the intent?”
What indeed? No questions about this case have as yet been answered. Stars and Stripes reported in mid-May that Hamdan and Dabous “tried to drive a delivery truck past security guards and onto a Marine Corps base in Virginia.” When they drove up to the Fuller Road Gate of the Marine base, sentries stopped them, as they do all incoming traffic.
The pair tried to give the impression that everything was strictly routine: Quantico spokesman Captain Michael Curtis stated that “when asked, the operator of the truck informed the military police officers they worked for a company subcontracted by Amazon and were making a delivery to the U.S. post office located in the town of Quantico.” They likely figured that an Amazon delivery driver would simply be waved through or allowed in after a cursory search.
This time, however, things didn’t turn out the way they wanted: “Because the two had no affiliation with the Marine base and no credentials to enter, military police officers directed them to go to a holding area for standard vetting procedures.” That’s when the red flags began to be raised: “One of the officers noticed the driver ignored the instructions and attempted to drive onto the base.”
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No harm was done. No weapons were found in their truck. So what were Hamdan and Dabous trying to do? Was this a kind of dry run, testing how difficult it would be to get into Quantico? The possibility cannot be discounted, and we can only hope that at least some military officials have been able to tear themselves away from the Trump-and-all-white-people-are-bad class long enough to strategize about how to ensure that the next attempt to breach the security of a Marine base will be stymied, just as this one was.
In leftist-ruled America, however, you can never be sure. After all, there are so very many important things that the military must do, such as manufacture more medals for our thoroughly unaccomplished generals who don’t even know what winning a war would look like. They can’t be expected to devote their time to something as trivial as national security. There is no sign that the ruling regime has any idea that any of this is a problem, much less any plan to fix it. An open border and a close call from a couple of highly suspicious characters at a key Marine base? For the left, these things aren’t bugs; they’re features.
