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.

Here's How the Biden Administration Is Reportedly Handling Iran Nuclear Deal

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In case there's any doubt how weak President Joe Biden is on dealing with Iran, the Wall Street Journal reported in the early morning hours of Monday that "Biden Administration Presses Allies Not to Confront Iran on Nuclear Program." Not only is the United States reportedly not going to tell Iran off for their nuclear program, but is urging our true allies to do the same.

As the report mentions:

BERLIN—The Biden administration is pressing European allies to back off plans to rebuke Iran for advances in its nuclear program, even as it expands its stockpile of near-weapons-grade fissile material to a record level, according to diplomats involved in discussions.

The U.S. is arguing against an effort by Britain and France to censure Iran at the International Atomic Energy Agency’s member-state board in early June, the diplomats said. The U.S. has pressed a number of other countries to abstain in a censure vote, saying that is what Washington will do, they said. Read more and see Ted Cruz' X here.