Michelle Malkin has some important revelations about Nuradin Abdi, the "shopping-mall terrorist," and other recently apprehended characters.
Nuradin M. Abdi, who was indicted last week for plotting with al Qaeda to blow up an Ohio shopping mall, flew here from Somalia and received bogus "refugee" status in 1999, according to authorities. Prosecutors allege that Abdi then fraudulently obtained a refugee travel document, which he used to fly to Ethiopia for jihad training. After returning, Abdi blended back into the American landscape along with tens of thousands of other refugees from a country known to be a breeding ground for Islamic terrorists. Columbus, Abdi's home base, is home to more than 30,000 Somalis -- the second-largest Somali community in the United States, after Minneapolis.The Somali-al Qaeda connection is well-established. Intelligence reports indicate that Osama bin Laden sent extremists to Somalia in the early 1990s to train and organize the Somali Islamic radical group al-Ittihad al-Islamiya. Bin Laden claimed responsibility for the deaths of 18 American soldiers in Mogadishu. In addition, a Saudi Arabian-based Muslim charity with alleged ties to al Qaeda has been funding refugee camps in Somali border towns. The feds have frozen the Al-Haramain Foundation's assets based on terrorism grounds, but the flow of refugees from the overseas camps subsidized by the group has not been stanched.
Not every Somalian refugee or asylum-seeker is a terrorist, of course. But the system for screening out the well-meaning from the menaces is completely overwhelmed. Claims of "credible fear of persecution" are almost impossible to document but are rarely rejected. Federal homeland security officials are unable to detain asylum-seekers for background checks without the civil liberties brigade screaming "racial profiling." And there is still a woeful shortage of detention space -- just 2,000 beds nationwide -- to hold those with suspect claims.
welcome to America! indeed when will the righteous stand up in this country and let their voices be heard,
truth needs to be spoken and by far and away we are silent, petition the government, do not sit idly complaining to one another, the political wheel that makes the most noise will get the oil. which 9/11 will garner the attention it deserves? the 2nd one or 3rd 4th 5th
This isn't the first time America's asylum laws have been abused. Thanks to their generosity, NY is filled with people from the Fuzhou area in China who are beholden to some pretty vicious mafia-type gangs--and support the pro-Communist Fujian-American Association (ever hear of 1930's and '40's German refugee associations saying anything nice at all about Hitler?).
Re the Fuzhou population, I'm all for carefully vetting people who may have religious reasons for fearing persecution (they start jailing people when more 18-year-olds apply for Baptism in state-sanctioned churches than apply for Communist Party Membership) or may be real political dissidents (saying "I shouted slogans" in 1989 without being able to say which slogan you shouted shouldn't cut it). As for fugitives from the one-child policy, they ought to do what a lot of rural Guangdong does--waylay the over-zealous health official and see to it that nothing is ever found of him except his bicycle (helps when the cops are kinfolk to people forced to abort).
Yes My Friends will you help protect this great country the USA???
U.S. Senator Zell Miller, D-GA
Floor Statement on the Situation at Abu Ghraib prison
Remarks as Delivered on the Senate Floor
Mr. President, here we go again, here we go again.
Rushing to give aid and comfort to the enemy.
Pushing and pulling and shoving and leaping over one another to assign blame and point the finger at America the Terrible.
Lining up in long lines at the microphones to offer apologies to those poor, pitiful Iraqi prisoners.
Of course, I do not condone all the things that went on in that prison, but I for one, Mr. President, refuse to join in this national Act of Contrition over it.
Those who are wringing their hands and shouting so loudly for “heads to roll” over this seem to have conveniently overlooked the fact that someone’s head HAS rolled - that of another innocent American brutally murdered by terrorists.
Why is it? Why is it that there’s more indignation over a photo of a prisoner with underwear on his head than over the video of a young American with no head at all?
Why is it that some in this country still don’t get that we are at war? A war against terrorists who are plotting to kill us every day. Terrorists who will murder Americans at any time any place any chance they get.
And yet here we are, America on its knees, in front of our enemy, begging for their forgiveness over the mistreatment of prisoners.
Showing the enemy and the world once again how easily America can get sidetracked and how easily America can turn against it self.
Yes, some of our soldiers went too far with their interrogation tactics and clearly were not properly trained to handle such duty.
But the way to deal with this is with swift and sure punishment, and immediate and better training.
There also needs to be more careful screening of who it is we put in these kinds of sensitive situations.
And no one wants to hear this, Mr. President and I’m reluctant to say it. But there should also be some serious questioning of having male and female soldiers serving side by side in these kinds of military missions.
But instead, I worry that the HWA - the Hand-Wringers of America - will add to their membership and continue to bash our country ad nauseam. And in doing so, hand over more innocent Americans to the enemy on a silver platter.
So I stand with Senator Inhofe of Oklahoma, who stated that he’s “more outraged by the outrage” than by the treatment of those prisoners.
More outraged by the outrage. It’s a good way of putting it. That’s exactly how this Senator from Georgia feels.
Thank you Mr. President. I yield the floor.
Part of the American Tribe
God Bless the USA and All her Fighting Forces and All who Fight with her give them Strength and Courage to stay the course to Victory Amen
As I have said before in these threads...as of 1996, we have what are generally conceded, even by the Freshman Republicans (some of whom have since admitted that they were trying to draw Clinton into a veto, and never intended for it to become law) that crafted them to appeal to the far right,the most Draconian immigration laws this country has seen in 75 to 100 years, (back when boatloads of Irish were turned away from New York Harbor and abandoned along the Canadian shore, and Italians couldn't have full civil rights because of a "scientific" theory that traced them racially to North Africa)
So why do we have a transparent border and it seems that virtually every terrorism suspect lately has words like "fraudulent" and "untrue" and "false information" in his bio? Three reasons:
1.)Corruption
2.)Corruption
3.)Oh, yeah, did I mention Corruption?