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Afghan “Torturer In Chief” gets asylum, living in Los Angeles

May 1, 2014 10:25 am By Robert Spencer

Gulalai and KarzaiGulalai, wearing sunglasses and standing next to Karzai in the photo, gets a pink two-story stucco ranch house in Los Angeles. Whole communities of Somali and Bosnian Muslims have been brought to the U.S. and plunked en masse in middle America. Where are the communities of Christians who are facing violent persecution in Syria, Egypt, Nigeria and elsewhere in the Muslim world being settled? Can they even get into the U.S. at all?

“Mystery surrounds move of Afghan ‘torturer in chief’ to U.S. amid allegations of spy agency abuse,” by Greg Miller, Julie Tate and Joshua Partlow, Washington Post, April 28, 2014 (thanks to Halal Pork Shop):

In Afghanistan, his presence was enough to cause prisoners to tremble. Hundreds in his organization’s custody were beaten, shocked with electrical currents or subjected to other abuses documented in human rights reports. Some allegedly disappeared.

And then Haji Gulalai disappeared as well.

He had run Afghan intelligence operations in Kandahar after the U.S.-led invasion in 2001 and later served as head of the spy service’s detention and interrogation branch. After 2009, his whereabouts were unknown.

Because of his reputation for brutality, Gulalai was someone both sides of the war wanted gone. The Taliban tried at least twice to kill him. Despite Gulalai’s ties to the CIA and Afghan President Hamid Karzai, United Nations officials and U.S. coalition partners sought to rein him in or have him removed.

Today, Gulalai lives in a pink two-story house in Southern California, on a street of stucco homes on the outskirts of Los Angeles.

How he managed to land in the United States remains murky. Afghan officials and former Gulalai colleagues said that his U.S. connections — and mounting concern about his safety — account for his extraordinary accommodation.

But CIA officials said the agency played no role in bringing Gulalai into the country. Officials at the State Department and the Department of Homeland Security would not comment on his relocation or immigration status, citing privacy restrictions. Gulalai and members of his family declined repeated inquiries from The Washington Post….

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  1. Angemon says

    May 1, 2014 at 10:48 am

    What is it with despicable people showing up where they’re least expected? Bin Laden was living on a mansion less than a mile away from Pakistan’s Military Academy, now the “Torturer In Chief” is living in the LA area… How long ’till karma bites him in the ass?

    • PJG says

      May 1, 2014 at 9:13 pm

      When I was robbed by a builder years ago, the police kew the thief’s whereabouts and there was proof of his crime. To my amazement however, after doing the paperwork a policeman told me that the thief would one day “do this to the wrong person”, while even well-educated friends told me he would get his “karma”.
      How many people really believe in “karma” as the answer to crime and savagery? Even people in our government-run institutions, it seems.
      How handy for the savage, who usually are not troubled by a belief in karma.

      • Angemon says

        May 2, 2014 at 7:41 am

        My mention of karma was more thinking along the lines of “both sides wanted this guy dead and now his whereabouts are public. How long until he ends up like one of his victims?”.

  2. pongidae rex says

    May 1, 2014 at 11:09 am

    Rats flee a sinking ship. And come here.

  3. JS says

    May 1, 2014 at 1:00 pm

    Give him a break, he’s just one of the dreamers.

  4. Champ ✿ says

    May 1, 2014 at 1:10 pm

    How he managed to land in the United States remains murky. Afghan officials and former Gulalai colleagues said that his U.S. connections — and mounting concern about his safety — account for his extraordinary accommodation.

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    Mounting concern about HIS safety? …when there should be mounting concern about OUR safety!

  5. Salah says

    May 1, 2014 at 1:37 pm

    He’s just a follower of Muhammad, remember? the one who said: “Torture him until you extract what he has.”

    http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2012/03/muhammad-and-torture.html

  6. xyz says

    May 1, 2014 at 3:58 pm

    Robert u are absolutely right… the Christians are being slaughtered.. yet the west gets muslim refugees.. u guys in the west really suck.. why cant u change policies.. demand ur rights before u loose ur country to islam

  7. Clare says

    May 1, 2014 at 5:07 pm

    It would be inconceivable that the citizenry of L.A. and of southern California do not rise up and demand an “account for his extraordinary accommodation”. HE should be registered as an alien criminal living in the area. And for the rest of us, how did this man get entry into the US?

    • Transmaster says

      May 1, 2014 at 7:57 pm

      By contributing campaign money to the Democratic party, and agreeing to vote democrat in multiple places.

  8. Kepha says

    May 1, 2014 at 7:57 pm

    There are Iraqi Christian kids showing up where I teach (refugee resettlement); and back when I was in the State Department, there was a great deal of sympathetic consideration given to claims by Iranian apostates from Islam–as well as members of Iran’s religious minority communities–including instructions given to State and INS (now part of ICE) officers tasked with refugee and migration issues.

    Remember, the MSM reports what its editors and owners think worth reporting. If they’re utterly unsympathetic to Christians, they’re not going to publicize their plight, or their resettlement stories. The thing on the agenda is to prove that it’s only evil American conservatives who hate Muslims, while liberals bend over backwards to accommodate everyone.

    And, I suspect, Haji Gulalai did some of our bidding somewhere along the line.

  9. dumbledoresarmy says

    May 1, 2014 at 10:32 pm

    I wonder whether there is a local chapter of ACT for America in that part of LA, and if so, whether they are “on the case”.

    If not, it looks like a project for them to take on board: raising public awareness of this creature’s presence, and asking awkward questions of the local and state politicians, and lobbying for a removal of such dangerous persons from the US. And it’s high time to start arguing for a ban – citing the precautionary principle – on Muslim immigration.

  10. Jerry says

    May 2, 2014 at 12:48 am

    Unfortunately, in the USA, the current Commander in (mis)Chief was born, brought up and educated as a Muslim, and only pretends to be a Christian.

    He promotes Islamic interests to the detriment of the United States.

    When will the gullible fools impeach him and chrge him with treason?

  11. Dee says

    May 2, 2014 at 7:25 am

    This is not right. These people should not be allowed in the U.S.

  12. Lynn says

    May 2, 2014 at 9:18 am

    This will continue while we have a muzzie as POTUS. He has been heII bent on taking American down a few (or more) pegs. There are MB members in all government departments and interests. Our Military has already been changed and are powerless against the changes. All of a sudden being a Christian is a crime and if in another country looking for sanctuary our pres isn’t interested in your plight.

  13. Jean Poole says

    May 2, 2014 at 12:36 pm

    Probably on welfare – and in subsidized housing.

  14. London Jim says

    May 2, 2014 at 2:39 pm

    Test

  15. Thomas Humphrey says

    May 3, 2014 at 10:12 am

    Yes when are Americans going to wake about Muslims being brought into this country. Look at Western Europe hmm do they have Any issues with these throwbacks.

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