Former Quantico staffer warns of terror attack 'dry run' after Jordanian nationals tried to breach base

2 Jordanians posing as Amazon delivery drivers were arrested after trying to enter Marine Corps Base Quantico in Virginia

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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?" Read more and see videos here.