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Dave Katz, a former federal firearms instructor who worked at Marine Corps Base Quantico near Triangle, Virginia, told Fox News Digital that the attempted breach of the base earlier this month by two foreign nationals may have been a "dry run" for a future attack.Katz, a former DEA agent and the CEO and founder of Global Security Group, warned that a similar, more dangerous incident could occur again. He told Fox News Digital, "Driving the box truck was a dry run for driving a box truck that was not going to be empty the second time.""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," he added.'This would be the very first terror attack on US soil from somebody who crossed the border illegally.'Katz called the incident at the military base the "equivalent of a feasibility study" for the two Jordanian nationals who allegedly executed the stunt. On May 3, two males driving a box truck attempted to enter the base when they were stopped by security, Blaze News previously reported. The men told the guards they were contracted drivers trying to complete an Amazon delivery. After failing to produce proper identification, law enforcement authorities instructed the men to wait in a holding area so that a secondary check could be conducted. Captain Michael Curtis told Potomac Local News, the local media outlet that first reported the incident, that the men ignored the guard's instructions and attempted "to move the vehicle past the holding area."Authorities quickly engaged the vehicle-denial barriers, preventing the box truck from proceeding. Curtis reported that the two men were turned over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement. It has since been confirmed that both of the individuals were in the United States illegally.One of the men illegally crossed the southern border into California in April, while the other male was in the country with an expired student visa.Katz told Fox News Digital that he is skeptical of the men's cover story."A student overstay somehow gets in contact with someone illegally crossing into the U.S. on the other side of the country. Both of them wind up in that truck," Katz stated. "There is no possible explanation for what happened other than a sinister one.""Can anyone come up with any reasonable explanation as to why two illegal aliens from Jordan would be driving a box truck in a sensitive area, other than to try to make a dry run for a future incident?" Katz continued. "If you can't provide an explanation for that, it's terror related."Fox News Digital reported that neither ICE nor the FBI responded to a request for comment.The federal government has not announced any evidence of a terrorism motivation, but it has not been ruled out either, Todd Bensman with the Center for Immigration Studies recently reported. He believes the incident marks the "first-ever border-crossing terror attack."During a recent interview on the "Conservative Review with Daniel Horowitz," Bensman said, "If this is what I strongly believe it is, a terror attack on a highly symbolic U.S. military base ... then, this would be the very first terror attack on U.S. soil from somebody who crossed the border illegally."Bensman told Horowitz that such an event would be "highly significant in an electoral sense.""The Biden administration is already failing on that issue in such a significant way that he could lose the election over the border crisis. If you were to add a terror attack — national security consummation of a national from a terror attack — then, Donald Trump would obviously grab that like a sledgehammer and start swinging it non stop. I don't think Donald Trump even knows about this yet," Bensman continued. "But even more important than the political aspect of it is the fact that if they don't tell us that this wasn't a terror attack, if they don't rule it out, or rule it in, and ... it just goes away. That means that they are opting to just not fix a major problem at the border."Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

It's appears a Texas home intruder may not have watched the iconic movie "The Untouchables" — which includes a warning of sorts to avoid bringing a knife to a gunfight — because this guy did just that Monday night in Taylor. The city is about 45 minutes northeast of Austin.The Taylor Press said officers responded to an 11:35 p.m. call about a male with a knife attempting to enter a house in the 2300 block of Donna Drive. As officers were headed to the residence, the paper said the male had entered the house — and that the homeowner shot the male.Police found a large knife with a sheath featuring a 'Hail Satan' inscription the suspect was carrying.The Press reported that when police arrived, the suspect had exited the home and was lying on the front porch with a gunshot wound to his hip. Officers identified the suspect as 23-year-old Austin Sumpter of Thrall, the paper said.Police found a large knife with a sheath featuring a “Hail Satan” inscription the suspect was carrying, the Press said, adding that the suspect was hospitalized; he's expected to survive.The paper also reported that police obtained a warrant charging the suspect with burglary of a habitation with commission of felony, which will be served once the suspect is released from medical care.How are observers reacting?Commenters on the Press' story on Facebook seemed pleased with the outcome:"I’m very thankful we live in a place where I can defend myself and property against people who feel they have any right to something that doesn’t belong to them!" one commenter wrote."Finally some good news for a change!" another commenter exclaimed."So glad the homeowners were armed & unharmed inside their home," another commenter said."He F’d around and found out," another commenter said, adding that "homeowners are tired of thieves! He got exactly what he deserves."Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price assumed office on Jan. 2, 2023, after running on a pledge to seek shorter sentences for criminals, to reduce incarceration, and to hound police about the execution of their duties. Price, whom George Soros reportedly funded in a previous run for the DA's office, began to made good on her soft-on-crime promises right away. A leaked memo revealed in March 2023 that barring "extraordinary circumstances" and Price's approval, most crimes would be met with probation or the lowest-level prison term, reported the Berkeley Scanner. Having faced the fallout of Price's apparent deference to criminals, concerned citizens mounted a recall campaign. The group spearheading that initiative, Save Alameda For Everyone, secured enough valid signatures in April, meaning Price now faces a potential ouster in November. Price's political vulnerability has evidently not led to greater caution or care on her part. This week, she planned on smoothing over her rocky relationship with the Asian community. When that proved to be a failure, she released a defensive video, reassuring the Asian community she once had an office near Chinatown. Digging a hole Price's relationship became especially strained last year when she decided to drop sentencing enhancements against thugs charged in connection with the 2021 murder of 1-year-old Jasper Wu in Oakland. Two gang members were initially charged with the boy's slaying and with other felonies related to their alleged "gun battle" on the freeway, reported the Berkeley Scanner. The thugs had pursued a rival gang member onto the freeway, where Trevor Green allegedly fired wildly into traffic, striking Wu as he slept in his car seat several lanes over. Wu's parents, Xiao Xiao An and An Wu, wanted the harshest possible penalty for Green, Ivory Bivens, and a third man connected with the murder of their son. Price's predecessor, former DA Nancy O’Malley, had applied criminal enhancements to ensure the alleged killers would face the prospect of life in prison without parole; however, Price stepped in and made it possible for the duo to walk the streets in under three decades' time if convicted. The Wu case hurt Price's reputation with the Asian community. Then came the resignation of veteran prosecutor Rebecca Warren, part of the "Asian American and Pacific Islander" community, who accused the Democratic DA of mistreating and disrespecting the "AAPI community." Another prosecutor, Danielle Hilton, resigned shortly thereafter, stating, "Victims deserve better," reported the New York Post. Digging deeper KGO-TV reporter Dion Lim indicated Monday that Price was planning to hold a press conference at the Oakland Asian Cultural Center this week to announce her Chinese name to celebrate so-called AAPI Heritage Month. "Someone messaged me to ask if this was an April Fool's joke," tweeted Lim. "I then sent this person the press release that came from the DA's office!" Charles Huang, head of the local National Asian Pacific Islanders Prosecutors Association, told KGO, "I think it's ridiculous. It's cultural appropriation and pandering at the highest level." After facing ruthless ridicule online, the DA's office informed KGO Tuesday that the press conference had been canceled. Price did, however, share a defensive video to social media, closed to public comment, wherein she claims: to have a good relationship with the Asian community; to have once had an office next to Chinatown; to have a Chinese name that she would not state outright; and that the thugs charged with Wu's murder face the possibility of hundreds of years in jail if convicted. It remains unclear from Price's remarks whether she ultimately embraced the same Chinese name she previously assigned herself in her full-page ad in the Chinese-language American paper World Journal, which the Daily Mail indicated translates to "nice virgin bureaucrat." Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Pope Francis issued an apology on Tuesday after he reportedly used a slur in a closed-door meeting when referring to gay men.During a private meeting with Italian bishops last week, Pope Francis was asked whether gay men should be admitted to seminaries. Not only did Francis issue a firm denouncement of LGBT seminarians, but he reportedly claimed there is already too much "frociaggine" in seminaries.'Italian is not his mother tongue.'"Nei seminari c’è già troppa frociaggine," Francis reportedly said in Italian.The translated sentence means, "There is already too much faggotry/faggotness in the seminaries."An Italian news outlet reported that Francis' response, and his use of the apparent slur, "was received with some incredulous laughter rather than embarrassment."In a statement on Tuesday, the Vatican appeared to confirm the reports, reiterated Francis' previous inclusive statements regarding LGBT Catholics, and issued an apology."Pope Francis is aware of articles that recently came out about a conversation, behind closed doors, with the bishops of the CEI (Italian Bishops Conference)," said the Holy See Press Office."As he has had the opportunity to state on several occasions, 'In the Church there is room for everyone, for everyone! No one is useless, no one is superfluous, there is room for everyone. As we are, everyone,'" the statement continued. "The Pope never intended to offend or express himself in homophobic terms, and he extends his apologies to those who were offended by the use of a term, as reported."Still, it's possible that Francis was not using "frociaggine" in a derogatory way.The Washington Post reported:A second Vatican official familiar with the pope’s private conversations, who also spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive issue, said the pontiff has used the word “frociaggine” on previous occasions — not as a catchall for homosexual men, but for anyone, gay or straight, who forms closed, gossipy cliques.Moreover, Italian is not Francis' native language, and thus it's possible he was not aware of the idiomatic meaning of "frociaggine.""Italian is not his mother tongue. When he was a boy, the family spoke more in Piedmontese, which is different, and in short it was clear that Francis was not aware of how heavy and offensive the word is in our language," one bishop told an Italian news outlet.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

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