No Evidence for Right-Wing Watchdog Claims of 'Islamic State' Fighters in Mexico Adam Withnall - The Independent
go to original April 15, 2015

Glenn Beck freaked out on his radio program this week over the utterly unsubstantiated claims made by the right-wing group Judicial Watch that ISIS has set up a terrorist training camp in Mexico, just eight miles from the U.S. border. Blindly accepting the report without question, Beck repeatedly warned that "ISIS is here" while predicting that the terrorist group would soon carry out an attack that would lead to the dissolution of the United States... (Secular Talk)

American law enforcement agencies have been forced to deny reports that the Isis militant group has set up a base in northern Mexico just eight miles from the US border.

First reported by the conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch, the claims were attributed to unnamed “Mexican authorities” and circulated by a host of right-wing media outlets.

Judicial Watch said Isis militants were working with the infamous Juarez Cartel in Anapra, Chihuahua, with a view to passing through “the porous border between Acala and Fort Hancock, Texas”.

In a bid to investigate the reports, El Paso-based ABC-7 News contacted a number of federal agencies linked to border security and was told “the report is unverified, and it is unlikely that Isis is in Anapra or Juarez, Mexico”.

But beyond the fact that they are simply implausible, experts warned that such claims might prove “very harmful” as they were “exactly the kind of thing Isis wants people to report”.

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