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Al Qaeda jihadists entered U.S. through refugee program

Nov 19, 2015 5:55 pm By Robert Spencer

But relax: Obama says the refugees are no more threatening than tourists.

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“Report: al Qaeda Terrorists Entered United States Through Refugee Program,” by Ali Meyer, Washington Free Beacon, November 18, 2015:

Two al Qaeda terrorists who had killed American soldiers were able to enter the country as refugees, according to a report released Wednesday from the House Homeland Security committee.

Waad Ramadan Alwan and Mohanad Shareef Hammadi, two Iraqi refugees settled in Bowling Green, Kentucky, after killing American soldiers, whom they bragged about having “for lunch and dinner.” In 2010, they were caught handling weapons, including included a machine gun and a missile launcher, that they planned to smuggle to insurgents in Iraq.

“I wouldn’t be surprised if there were many more than that,” said Rep. Michael McCaul (R., Texas), the chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security. “And these are trained terrorists in the art of bombmaking that are inside the United States; and quite frankly, from a homeland security perspective, that really concerns me.”

The committee’s report found that the administration’s refugee resettlement program proposal will have “a limited impact on alleviating the overall crisis but could have serious ramifications for U.S. homeland security.”

Jeh Johnson, the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, admitted in October at a hearing before the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs committee that organizations such as the Islamic State might attempt to exploit the Syrian refugee resettlement program.

“It is true that we are not going to know a whole lot about the Syrians that come forth in this process,” he said.

President Obama’s refugee resettlement program is now under scrutiny after deadly terrorist attacks in Paris killed more than 120 people and left more than 300 injured on Friday. It is suspected that one of the terrorists entered the country as a refugee.

In addition to these attacks, men in Minnesota were apprehended by the feds for trying to join the Islamic State. There is growing concern that the state would be a recruiting ground for the Islamic State because of its large community of Somali refugees.

The report was released after a nearly year-long investigation evaluating challenges with allowing Syrian refugee flows into the United States.

Governors from many states are now refusing to allow Syrian refugees to resettle in their states.

“Given the tragic attacks in Paris and the threats we have already seen, Texas cannot participate in any program that will result in Syrian refugees—any one of whom could be connected to terrorism—being resettled in Texas,” said Gov. Greg Abbott.

“There is an undeniable connection between our refugee resettlement program and the increased risk of a terror attack within the United States,” said Jessica Vaughan, an immigration expert at the Center for Immigration Studies.

“There have been roughly 70 terrorist plots in the United States since 9/11 and scores of young people who are first or second generation refugees and immigrants who have become involved in some way with Islamist jihadists, either by undertaking attacks here or traveling overseas to join a terrorist group, or both,” she said….

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  1. Julian says

    Nov 19, 2015 at 6:03 pm

    What a lovely looking widow.. Or is he an orphan?

    • Treebird says

      Nov 19, 2015 at 7:41 pm

      he’s an orphaned widow!

      • JohnBennett says

        Nov 19, 2015 at 8:49 pm

        a three year-old orphaned widow. don’t worry; put your faith in Obama!

  2. mortimer says

    Nov 19, 2015 at 6:09 pm

    WHAT COULD GO WRONG?

    Cultural Marxists like Obummer, Kerry and Hillary just repeat to us: “Trust us! We know better. We’re politically correct. Everybody just pipe down. It’s racist to disagree with cultural Marxism.”

    They still haven’t explained how Islam (an ideology) is a race.

  3. mortimer says

    Nov 19, 2015 at 6:13 pm

    ISLAM IS NOT THREATENING?

    How are the following not threatening to traditional American values:

    1 No Golden Rule 2 No free speech 3 No democracy 4 Jihad – holy war of world conquest 5 Honour killings 6 Taqiyya – sacred lying 7 Taqlid – group think 8 Misogyny – repression of women 9 Rape of kafirs as jihad prizes 10 Genocide 11 Ethnic cleansing 12 Anti-Semitism 13 Al-Walaa wal-Baraa – Islamic apartheid 14 Torture 15 Plundering 16 Cruel and unusual punishments 17 Backwardness – stagnation 18 Violence against women 19 Slavery 20 Discriminatory Sharia law 21 Hatred of the arts 22 Pedophilia disguised as child marriage 23 Fifty generations of cousin marriage and genetic defects 24 Cruelty to animals 25 Extortion tax to humiliate disbelievers 26 No historic basis 27 Anti-intellectual obscurantism 28 FGM 29 Arab racism 30 Theocratic totalitarianism 31 Vigilantism 32 Supremacism

    • Peter Charles says

      Nov 19, 2015 at 6:30 pm

      You have pretty much summed it up. Good post.

    • Resist says

      Nov 19, 2015 at 6:47 pm

      Oaw You nailed it!!
      Totally right on. Thank you SO much for telling the truth that so many refuse to see.

    • ? says

      Nov 19, 2015 at 6:55 pm

      All this, and yet there are still people who will defend Islam…. I have absolutely no faith in my society, government, or justice system all of which will quickly be overrun by Muslims who support sharia law.

    • Katnis says

      Nov 19, 2015 at 8:40 pm

      Sounds like a nice Facebook post. I bet that would be shared and quickly get 1,000,000 “likes”

      • Angemon says

        Nov 21, 2015 at 7:13 pm

        Or get one sent to FB jail if enough people complain about it being “islamophobic” or “offensive and demeaning to a whole group” – facts be damned.

  4. somehistory says

    Nov 19, 2015 at 6:47 pm

    Even if they could do legitimate background checks, there is still strong reasons to believe that the people like the one pictured above…one with dead eyes and soul enslaved to islam…would commit terrorism after entering.

    After all, according to the *experts*…many are *radicalized* and they don’t know how to stop it. Anytime they speak of stopping it, cair, mpac, moslims students assoc, etc. complain that they are being discriminated against, profiled, want control over any program to help the young not become *radicalized.*…and more.

    So, if they had their background checked and they had not committed any terror actions, joined any *radical* group…such as isis which isn’t islam according to the experts…what would be the result of bringing in…on a deliberate purpose…thousands of people who are taught from before the age of three…to fight against all freedoms that the True God said we could have…(freedom of speech, freedom of choices in life regarding food, clothing, etc.,) when hundreds already here have committed terror acts?

    How much longer will the beast be given so much power and control to conquer men, women and children and enslave them to satan? Thankfully, God knows and will not let it conquer all of us.

    • Jim Peters says

      Nov 20, 2015 at 9:22 am

      Now we are being told that the Jihadi women in Paris were not devout Muslims, that they were party girls, drinkers and sexually loose. With all the information coming at us, I simply don’t believe the above. Is this narrative designed to deflect blame from “real Muslims” to these “less than real Muslims”? Are we to believe that devout Muslims would never commit the atrocities we’ve seen?

      • somehistory says

        Nov 20, 2015 at 10:45 am

        Anything to deflect any truth about islam getting out.
        Whenever there is a claim that *real* moslims don’t do …this or that…it should be remembered that mohamed atta…one of the hijacker-murderers that flew into the Twin Towers spent time drinking, smoking, going to night clubs while preparing for the mass murder he would commit.

        It was said that he was trying to appear *normal* and behave like all of the other single men in the neighborhood…like an American male…so no one would suspect what he was about to do.
        Anything for islam…they break their own rules and their own unlawful codes to further the cause of the wild beast.

  5. nicu says

    Nov 19, 2015 at 6:57 pm

    After Paris and Hannover – they still stream in and cause trouble .

    They say it’s dangerous , but nobody stops them !

    Gawd , how I hate to see these guys and their wandering garbage sacks !

  6. ? says

    Nov 19, 2015 at 7:04 pm

    You will be assimilated….you will be assimilated… You will be assimilated…

    This is not funny. These islamofasists have absolutely no shame a terrorist who killed soldiers?? Wth!? Don’t ever tell me that the government or society supports or respects its veterans when this sort of madness is allowed to happen.

    This is the reaping 666

  7. خَليفة says

    Nov 19, 2015 at 7:18 pm

    The White House has a lot of empty rooms, maybe they could take in a few dozen refugees?

    • Ama says

      Nov 20, 2015 at 7:22 am

      .I’m reading your comment in so many different ways, and so unsure if It’s appropriate to share (:

      • خَليفة says

        Nov 20, 2015 at 12:21 pm

        Dearest Ama,

        Would Obama do what he expects other Americans to do? I bet not. Obama talks big, but does little to actually help anyone but himself.

        Do you think Obama would like to have some ISiL operatives living with him, knowing that ISIL would like to execute him? Then why does Obama expect the rest of us to do so?

  8. Katnis says

    Nov 19, 2015 at 8:43 pm

    (insert sarcasm) Oh really? Terrorists managed to get into the US as refugees? I can’t imagine how that ever happened.

    How many have we not caught? And why the hell risk more by letting more into the country?

    Come on. It’s just common sense at this point.

    • d says

      Nov 20, 2015 at 10:18 am

      Its not the terrorists. They may kill a dozen or even hundreds. The real threat is the number of Muslims in any Western country. Once the number reaches critical mass, it will be Sharia, And that is the end of Western civilisation in the country.

  9. Undaunted says

    Nov 19, 2015 at 9:32 pm

    Hey, don’t sweat it; we have “America’s Finest” to protect us and lead the way… not.

    http://freemendo.typepad.com/undaunted/2015/11/americas-finest.html

    • Joseph says

      Nov 19, 2015 at 10:46 pm

      Sorry Undaunted but I say that it is EXTREMELY UNFAIR to paint the men and women of the police with such a wide brush.
      How many police officers have given their lives to the protection of people they don’t know or in the line of duty.
      Could you honestly go to a officer’s funeral and tell his/her family that “Hey, they didn’t do enough”?

      • Undaunted says

        Nov 20, 2015 at 6:47 am

        As a former police officer and detective, I can tell you I’d not say that kind of thing to the family of a slain police officer. But you’re missing the point: the truth is that most of the police officers in the US are unprepared. How many have given their lives in the past is immaterial to the current state of affairs.

        • Undaunted says

          Nov 20, 2015 at 9:56 am

          Yes, Clarke and his type are what we need now leading every department.

        • Undaunted says

          Nov 20, 2015 at 9:57 am

          Jim Peters… well said.

        • Concerned Citizen says

          Nov 21, 2015 at 12:12 am

          Clarke states the truth! I wish more people were like him! As long as the Obama’s and the Clinton’s of the world continue their rhetoric, I have little hope for our future!

      • Undaunted says

        Nov 20, 2015 at 8:25 am

        General Patton got himself in trouble in Boston in ’45 for saying that all the war dead were not heroes inasmuch as many had died because of stupid mistakes they’d made, not by acts of selfless valor. But he was right.

        Many LEO are committed and brave and will act as true warriors when the time comes because they are in fact warriors, not preening Millennials or fatso donut-munchers. I’ve studied this stuff for years and the proof is at my blog where I’ve listed incident after incident where police officers deliberately stand down so they don’t endanger themselves, and police “leaders” put us all at risk of death because of their feckless, cowardly policies.

        So, it’s not unfair for me to write what I write here or at my blog. I know a truth that you don’t and that few officers will admit. I tell people about it so they can prepare for themselves. Now which is unfair: for me to know that most cops are not prepared and warn people of that so they can protect themselves or for me to protect the families of slain officers and lazy, pussy cops who joined the force so they could carry guns, drive fast, and fuck with people?

        • Joseph says

          Nov 20, 2015 at 9:25 am

          Yes there are **jag** cops who only want to serve themselves but the majority out there want to make things better. As in the workforce so too is in the leadership, 5% cause 95% of the problems.This is ALL through levels of rank. Concentrate on the 5% for discipline. This is right from police management course given in criminal justice, or police science depending where your from. .
          My bad experience with the “justice system” as you may have read all started with one lazy M.Fuckin Detective. I do see your point.
          As sheriff Clark from Milwaukee WI. said, buy a gun and know how to use it, the police could be 5, 10 or 15 minutes away.

        • Jim Peters says

          Nov 20, 2015 at 9:37 am

          This comment sounds like Trump’s statement about Mc Cain. Maybe Trump borrowed it from Patton.
          If real anarchy breaks out with multiple events simultaneously occurring it will be everyone for themselves. The police would be quickly overwhelmed and in massively dire situations, I believe that the police would take care of their own first.
          I have no illusions, I don’t trust any Muslims. I believe that they will stick together, not report suspicious activity and secretly celebrate attacks. The cowards will celebrate while the suicidal will carry out the murders. When are we going to see a mass revolt against radical Islam by “good” Muslims. When are the Mullahs, Imams etc, going to come on the Media denouncing what’s going on? Their silence is deafening.

        • Joseph says

          Nov 20, 2015 at 1:42 pm

          Jim Peters,
          That comment came from a course book and from my teacher, an ex-marine and retired cop. 5 years ago.
          Sheriff Clark….he said it himself.

  10. Don Bennett says

    Nov 20, 2015 at 12:26 am

    Obama/Hillary, ‘nothing to do with America.

  11. Baucent says

    Nov 20, 2015 at 1:50 am

    Obama and Clinton would rather place ideology and political correct think ahead of any security consideration. All facts such, as intelligence reports are filtered through this net. Only those that align with the ideology are accepted, contrary views are rejected. Bring it all together and you have two political individuals who are a danger to the nation.

    • Desst says

      Nov 20, 2015 at 2:05 am

      Seeing this terrorist makes obama smile saying to himself I have you now america and I will not stop til u r without guns and are slaves forever

  12. worldcitizen1919 says

    Nov 20, 2015 at 2:43 am

    Until terrorism dies down it may be wiser to move these people to a culture they’re more compatible with.

  13. HiPlainsDrifter says

    Nov 20, 2015 at 9:53 am

    we are led by an anti-American fool

  14. Jim Peters says

    Nov 20, 2015 at 9:56 am

    Barry was really something to see in the last few days. His disdain for us is unmistakeable. He thinks we are afraid of Muslim women and children, we are such chicken shits, we are islamophobes etc,etc,etc. He’s pissed off at us and the conservative thinkers in America. We don’t matter. We are the problem. He acts so brave and resolute. We aren’t being guarded 24/7 by the secret service.
    Now we hearing that our illustrious congressman are suggesting that only the young military age men be excluded for coming in. We know that Islamic women have wombs and they make and train future jihadis. They know what their function is and are happy to join the fight on their own level. They are glad to use their own children as bomb carriers: their little brain washed stooges will be used to deliver death.

  15. Roger Thornhill says

    Nov 20, 2015 at 12:40 pm

    If the resettlement proposal and refugee camp is so harmless, let 500 folks live on the White House lawn. I’m sure the Obama’s Chicago home could house a few as well.

  16. SoCalMike says

    Nov 20, 2015 at 8:00 pm

    We need to start sticking the bureaucrats who let these animals in right in front of the firing squad.
    That might help them find the incentive to correct their “error” and possibly offer us some reassurance they won’t repeat the same mistake.
    Under those conditions I might believe a singe word out of Jen Psaki’s congenitally professionally lying mouth.

  17. Angemon says

    Nov 21, 2015 at 7:14 pm

    “There is an undeniable connection between our refugee resettlement program and the increased risk of a terror attack within the United States,” said Jessica Vaughan, an immigration expert at the Center for Immigration Studies.

    Not for Obama there isn’t.

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