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    ISIS member arrested in Californis

    ISIS MEMBER WHO APPLIED FOR REFUGEE STATUS HAS BEEN ARRESTED ON MURDER CHARGES IN CALIFORNIA
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    A suspected Islamic State member wanted for murder in Iraq faces extradition after being arrested Wednesday by the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force in California, where he applied for refugee status.

    Federal authorities say that Omar Ameen, 45, is wanted for the June 21, 2014, murder of an Iraqi police officer from the town of Rawah in the Anbar province.


    An Iraqi court alleges that Ameen and a group of ISIS fighters entered Rawah after the town was overtaken by the terrorist group.

    Ameen and other ISIS members drove to the home of the officer, Ihsan Abdulhafiz Jasim, and allegedly began firing at him. Ameen allegedly shot Jasim, who was lying on the ground, on behalf of ISIS.

    According to an extradition document filed in federal court Wednesday, Ameen fled Rawah following the alleged crime and settled in Sacramento.

    Authorities say that Ameen’s family helped foster the Iraqi branch of al-Qaeda (AQI) in 2004. In addition to murder, Ameen is believed to have planted explosives while living in Iraq.

    Ameen arrived in the U.S. on Nov. 4, 2014, according to the extradition document, which was filed by McGregor W. Scott, a U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of California.

    On a resume included in the government’s filing, Ameen claimed to have worked as an auto mechanic in Sacramento from February 2016 through February 2018.

    He also claims to have worked as a truck loader and laborer in Salt Lake City beginning in January 2015.

    Ameen concealed his terrorist affiliations in an application for refugee status. He also applied for a green card.

    The government’s court filing says the FBI has had Ameen under investigation since 2016 for fraud and the misuse of visas.

    During that investigation, which included interviews with eight witnesses, the bureau was able to corroborate “Ameen’s membership in and actions on behalf of AQI and ISIS, including the murder.” IRAQ ISIS
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    "Authorities say that Ameen’s family helped foster the Iraqi branch of al-Qaeda (AQI) in 2004;....Ameen arrived in the U.S. on Nov. 4, 2014"...Huh?...How...is the ^ million dollar question?

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    We forget who really created Al-Qaeda and ISIS.

    The cycles of dumbing down remain constant.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TuskegeeBen View Post
    "Authorities say that Ameen’s family helped foster the Iraqi branch of al-Qaeda (AQI) in 2004;....Ameen arrived in the U.S. on Nov. 4, 2014"...Huh?...How...is the ^ million dollar question?
    The answer will be in the FBI's report, won't it?

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    Quote Originally Posted by happynz View Post
    The answer will be in the FBI's report, won't it?
    No!...

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    Quote Originally Posted by TuskegeeBen View Post
    "Authorities say that Ameen’s family helped foster the Iraqi branch of al-Qaeda (AQI) in 2004;....Ameen arrived in the U.S. on Nov. 4, 2014"...Huh?...How...is the ^ million dollar question?



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    Quote Originally Posted by happynz View Post
    The answer will be in the FBI's report, won't it?

    • Suspected Islamic State fighter Omar Ameen was arrested in California on Wednesday on charges of murdering an Iraqi police officer.
    • Ameen, 45, obtained refugee status, allowing him to come to the U.S.
    • Ameen met little resistance on his path to the U.S. All he had to do was lie about his links to ISIS, according to the Department of Justice.


    The process for Iraqi national Omar Adbulsattar Ameen to enter the U.S. was simple: All the suspected Islamic State fighter had to do was lie on his United Nations

    applications for refugee status and during interviews with U.S. Customs and Immigration Services (USCIS) officials, according to the Department of Justice.


    Ameen, who was arrested in California on Wednesday on an outstanding murder warrant in Iraq, claimed he was not a member of ISIS or al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI).

    He also denied taking part in any terrorist or criminal activity in Iraq.


    In order to meet the physical safety requirement to qualify as a refugee, Ameen, 45, claimed his father had been murdered while helping the American military

    and that his brother had been kidnapped by a terrorist group affiliated with radical cleric Muqtada al Sadr.

    But all of that was a lie, according to the Justice Department.

    Ameen was allegedly a member of ISIS. In 2004, before the rise of that brutal terror group, Ameen and his family helped start AQI, according to the DOJ.

    In addition to allegedly killing an Iraqi police officer, Ameen is suspected of planting IEDs and committing terrorist acts near his hometown of Rawah.

    But Ameen appears not to have faced any rigorous questioning from the U.S. government about terror links and his criminal activities.

    Instead, he simply answered “no” to questions about his alleged ISIS and al-Qaeda links while inventing a false narrative about his father and brother.

    “Have you ever interacted with, had involvement with, or known any members of … Al Qaeda in Iraq … the Islamic State of Iraq or any other armed group or militia?”

    ...was one of the questions USCIS posed to Ameen.

    “No,” he answered, according to Justice Department documents. Ameen denied he had ever committed crimes in Iraq.

    “In actuality,” according to the Justice Department, witnesses told the FBI that Ameen committed “numerous crimes ranging from robbery to placing [improvised explosive devices].”

    “Ameen’s negative answers cut off a line of questioning relevant to his admissibility to the United States,” the Justice Department filing states.


    “Based on the written and verbal answers given by Ameen, his refugee application was approved by USCIS on June 5, 2014.”


    Ameen, who claimed to work as a truck driver, first applied for refugee status in Turkey in 2012. On June 21, 2014, less than three weeks after obtaining refugee designation,

    Ameen allegedly murdered Iraqi police officer Ihsan Abdulhafiz Jasim in Rawah, an ISIS stronghold.



    Ameen then entered the U.S. on Nov. 4, 2014, settling first in Salt Lake City and then in Sacramento, where he was arrested on Wednesday.

    He will be extradited to Iraq to face charges of premeditated murder. (RELATED: ISIS Fighter Who Obtained Refugee Status Arrested On Murder Charges In California)

    Ameen applied for a green card in 2016, which would have allowed him permanent resident status in the U.S. The FBI began investigating Ameen for visa fraud that same year.

    It is unclear from government filings when the FBI learned of Ameen’s alleged terrorist activities.


    The ease with which Ameen obtained refugee status and entered the U.S. is “a sad illustration of the inherent problem in our vetting system,”

    Jessica Vaughan, an analyst at the Center for Immigration Studies, which supports policies limiting immigration, told The Daily Caller News Foundation.


    The U.S. government’s refugee vetting process has been a topic of intense debate during President Donald Trump’s tenure. Days after taking office,

    Trump ordered a ban on travel from several predominantly Muslim countries.

    Iraq was initially on that list but removed at the request of Secretary of Defense James Mattis. The Supreme Court upheld a revised travel ban in June.

    Trump critics accused the administration of discriminating based on religion. Trump supporters argued the ban was necessary to prevent terrorist acts on U.S. soil.

    The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) established a National Vetting Center in February to screen all individuals applying for refugee status, visas and other immigration benefits.

    “Last year, at the President’s direction, the U.S. Government implemented significant enhancements to the security of the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program,” DHS spokesman Tyler Q. Houlton

    said in a statement when asked whether the Trump administration’s vetting requirements would have prevented Ameen from entering the U.S.

    “Tighter screening and tougher vetting in the refugee program have already started to make Americans safer at home,” he continued.


    “This is just one example of how raising the bar on our security standards has directly increased our ability to protect and secure our nation from terror groups abroad.”

    Vaughan said the refugee vetting process under the Trump administration has improved, “but it’s not foolproof.”


    “That’s why we should assist by sending aid to them instead of visas,” she continued. “It shows how we cannot always rely on our own vetting,

    which is based on other countries’ records, which may be inaccurate, inauthentic or simply unavailable.”


    Eight witnesses told the FBI about his family’s connections to AQI and ISIS. One FBI witness also provided a death certificate for Ameen’s father,

    which showed that, rather than being murdered, he died on Dec. 25, 2010, from a blood clot.


    But Ameen claimed on a refugee application submitted to USCIS that his father was “shot dead” while helping the American military transport portable houses.

    Ameen repeated the claim verbally under oath during an interview to obtain a green card.


    “Not only did Ameen misrepresent the cause of his father’s death, but he also falsified the nature of his father’s involvement with AQI,” the government wrote.

    “By concealing the true nature of his father’s membership in AQI, Ameen misdirected USCIS away from its inquiry into any possible disqualifying ties to terrorism.”


    Ameen also claimed on his refugee application that his brother’s home in Baghdad was raided by a group of “masked, black-clad men” affiliated with the terrorist

    group Jaish Al Mahdi in March 2012.


    “According to Ameen, he feared persecution based on the kidnapping of his brother if he were to remain in Iraq,” the government wrote.


    But Ameen’s brother was not apprehended by a terror group, according to the DOJ. Instead, he was arrested by authorities on terrorism charges.

    An Iraqi court issued an arrest warrant for Ameen and three of his brothers on Dec. 26, 2010.

    “These two claims of past persecution formed the basis of Ameen’s acceptance as a refugee. By falsely claiming to be a victim of past persecution,

    Ameen created a narrative that resulted in approval of his refugee application,” the Justice Department said.
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    TB's comment: "I've got some ocean front property (for sale) in Arizona. Thus,....if you'll buy that story,...

    then I'll sweeten the deal,...by throwing-in the Golden Gate Bridge,... for free,...as a purchase bonus......"
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    Quote Originally Posted by BelAir View Post
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    Bullocks...!

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    Thats one of the 500,000 deaths from the US invasion of Iraq accounted for. Perhaps the time has come to jail someone for the rest.

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    Some posters may be sufficiently enraged to find 'proof' that debunks it, but imho from bits trickling through, it seems one critical difference between US and Euro procedures for asylum is that refugees with a serious criminal background trying to be accepted by the US simply need to lie about their past, and if the State have no conflicting evidence or reason to disbelieve, they're in.

    In Germany, France and Netherlands for sure, and probably the rest of the EU, some rejected asylum seekers without a criminal past have managed to avoid or delay deportation for years, during which time they might look at other options, by falsely confessing to serious crimes that would earn a death sentence back home. Alternatively, with a bit of planning that includes verifiable indulgence, heterosexual Muslim asylum seekers could legally avoid deportation from Europe by falsely claiming to be gay, if it is a capital offence back home.

    The name of the game for both crims and straights is to stay in the host country, much better with official sanction, while wriggling off the screen is often the last resort.

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    Alternatively, with a bit of planning that includes verifiable indulgence, heterosexual Muslim asylum seekers could legally avoid deportation from Europe by falsely claiming to be gay, if it is a capital offence back home.


    Afghan ‘not gay enough’ for asylum in Austria

    Oliver Moody
    August 17 2018, 12:01am,
    The Times


    The teenager from Afghanistan did not mince when he walked, had no wardrobe of flamboyant clothes and above all lacked a 24-hour party personality.

    He was, in other words, not gay enough to deserve asylum in Austria, according to a judgment that has been widely derided for its Carry On-esque notion of homosexuality.

    “Neither your gait, your bearing nor your clothing have even vaguely indicated that you could be homosexual,” a judge in the town of Wiener Neustadt told the 18-year-old applicant as his request for residency was rejected.

    He had got into several fights in refugee centres and seemed to have an air of aggression that was “not to be expected in a homosexual”, the verdict continued, according to a report in Falter, a Viennese news magazine.

    Nor was he particularly outgoing. “It says here in the report that you didn’t have many friends,” said the judge, who has not been named. “Are homosexuals not rather sociable?”

    The young man’s claim to have kissed many straight men for fun was also ridiculed. “Had you really done that to a non-homosexual man, you would have got a fearful beating,” the judge said. “No straight man would let himself be kissed by another man. That is completely unthinkable.”

    The teenager arrived alone in Austria two years ago and was sent to a refugee camp for children. He originally applied for asylum on the grounds that he was from the Hazara, a Shia ethnic group that has been persecuted by the Taliban. When that failed he appealed, arguing that he could not return to Afghanistan because homosexuality is illegal there.

    He said that he had developed feelings of desire towards other boys at the age of 12.

    The judge gave this claim short shrift: “In such a sexually conservative society as Afghanistan, where sexual enticements through fashion or advertising are not permitted in public, it is improbable that you were ‘sexualised’ so early.”

    The asylum seeker has lodged another appeal against the decision. Bild mocked the verdict as “Europe’s craziest reason for deportation”.

    The Austrian interior ministry would not comment on the details of the case, except to say that it was “not reflective of the [wider] reality” of its asylum system.

    ooooh matron !!

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    Woohoo you done it, almost, oh gosh no not even that, but E for effort.

    Quote Originally Posted by taxexile View Post
    “Neither your gait, your bearing nor your clothing have even vaguely indicated that you could be homosexual,” a judge in the town of Wiener Neustadt told the 18-year-old applicant as his request for residency was rejected.
    Quote Originally Posted by jabir
    Alternatively, with a bit of planning that includes verifiable indulgence...
    Notice anything?

    But thanks for corroborating my post, albeit unwittingly, eh?

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