Texas Public Safety Threat Overview: "Elevated” Terrorism Threat to U.S. from Mexico".

Texas Public Safety Threat Overview: "Elevated” Terrorism Threat to U.S. from Mexico". HT: Judicial Watch.

A new government audit confirms what Judicial Watch has been reporting for years, that Islamic terrorists are operating in Mexican border towns and infiltrating the United States to carry out attacks. In a report issued this month by the Texas Department of Public Safety, the agency notes that the state faces a full spectrum of threats and “due to the recent actions of lone offenders or small groups affiliated with or inspired by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and other foreign terrorist organizations, we assess that the current terrorism threat to Texas is elevated.”

Safety officials in the Lone Star State also write in the 86-page document that they are “especially concerned about the potential for terrorist infiltration across the U.S.-Mexico border, particularly as foreign terrorist fighters depart Syria and Iraq and enter global migration flows.”

They also express worries about Syrian refugees that have been sent to Texas under President Obama’s settlement program because the government doesn’t have a system to properly vet them. 

Judicial Watch has also reported extensively on that national security crisis. Read the latest stories here and here. “We see a potential that these challenges may leave the state exposed to extremist actors who pose as authentic refugees, and who are determined to later commit violent acts,” the Texas report states.Read the full story here.

Iran - How to reduce drug-related crimes? Issuing coupons for opium distribution might hold the solution.

Iran - How to reduce drug-related crimes? Issuing coupons for opium distribution might hold the solution. (Taz).

An Iranian official says that issuing coupons for opium distribution is a right solution to the growing drug-related crimes in the country.

Ali Hashemi, who chairs an anti-drugs committee at Iran’s State Expediency Council, said Feb. 20 that it was a right measure to issue opium coupons to manage the opium demand in the country, reports the ISNA news agency.

He explained that before the 1979 revolution, Iran, while under the rule of the Pahlavi dynasty, was issuing opium coupons to manage drug consumption, which was a successful practice in terms of reducing drug-related crimes.


After the 1979 revolution, the Islamic Republic stopped the controlled distribution of opium in the country saying this was against laws and the Sharia, the legal framework regulating public and some private aspects of life based on Islam. Read the full story here.