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Oklahoma: Muslim who attended flight school also participated in al-Qaeda jihad training camp

Feb 7, 2018 7:50 am By Robert Spencer

“Mr. Alfallaj, 34, used a fraudulent visa to take private flying lessons in October 2016 in Oklahoma.”

No one at the flight school would have dared look more deeply into Alfallaj’s background. That would have brought Hamas-linked CAIR and “Islamophobia” charges down upon them faster than Adam Schiff on an anti-Trump rumor.

“Saudi Who Attended Qaeda Camp Is Arrested in Oklahoma,” by Adam Goldman and Matt Apuzzo, New York Times, February 6, 2018:

WASHINGTON — A Saudi immigrant who attended Al Qaeda’s most notorious training camp was arrested on a charge of lying to the F.B.I. and on two counts of visa fraud in Oklahoma, where he had been living for years with his family, federal law enforcement officials announced Tuesday.

The F.B.I. discovered the man, Naif Abdulaziz M. Alfallaj, only recently, when the authorities matched his 15 fingerprints to those taken from a document captured in Afghanistan, the officials said. The document was a five-page application for the Farooq camp, where four of the Sept. 11 hijackers trained.

He apparently filled out the application in September 2000, when he was a teenager, the officials said, well after Al Qaeda had made its intentions of attacking the United States and its allies known to the world. Anyone who tried to join the camp would have known that Al Qaeda was a terrorist organization, law enforcement officials said. The United States military recovered the document at a Qaeda safe house in Afghanistan in December 2001, prosecutors said, who added that the document had an emergency contact for Mr. Alfallaj’s father in Saudi Arabia.

Typically people who applied to the camp filled out what was known as a “mujahedeen data form.” They needed an invitation to join the camp and a reference from someone known and trusted by Al Qaeda. Trainees learned how to use weapons and explosives at the camp. After training, camp attendees fought with Al Qaeda or the Taliban in Afghanistan. Osama bin Laden and his top deputies frequently visited the camp.

Mr. Alfallaj, 34, used a fraudulent visa to take private flying lessons in October 2016 in Oklahoma, according to federal court records. Noncitizens are required to submit fingerprints as part of the licensing process. The Federal Aviation Administration revoked his license last year after the F.B.I. made the discovery.

Mr. Alfallaj was arrested Monday and made an initial appearance in federal court in Oklahoma City. A message left with a public defender assigned to represent Mr. Alfallaj was not immediately returned.

Mr. Alfallaj, who is from Riyadh, came to the United States in late 2011 on a nonimmigrant visa based on his wife’s status as a foreign student. He had been living in Weatherford, Okla., about 70 miles west of Oklahoma City, the authorities said. Prosecutors say that he falsely answered questions on his visa application, including about whether he had supported terrorists. The F.B.I. said he lied about whether he had contacts with anyone from a terrorist group when agents interviewed him in December. The next month, Mr. Alfallaj confirmed that the telephone number found on the application belonged to his father, the F.B.I. said.

The F.B.I. had been watching him for several months and had been trying determine whether Mr. Alfallaj was involved in terrorist activity in the United States.

Mr. Alfallaj and his family did not interact with neighbors and stayed mostly to themselves. Mr. Alfallaj’s apartment complex was not far from Southwestern Oklahoma State University. A student there said that many Saudis attended the school and that they often mingled and had cookouts, but that Mr. Alfallaj did not attend these gatherings….

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  1. Berengaria says

    Feb 7, 2018 at 8:09 am

    And Alfalljah took Flying Lessons in 2016, in Preparation For What? Why is Our Government NOT More Active in the Protection of America, from MUSLIM TERRORISTS? Our FBI has left the Country Defenseless against the SCURGE OF ISLAM, while they Are Plotting to DESTROY The PRESIDENT of the USA, DONALD J. TRUMP. UNFORGIVABLE, that these Rascals are still in DC, sitting in their FBI FORTRESS!

  2. john spielman says

    Feb 7, 2018 at 8:58 am

    WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG WITH THIS SCENARIO?

  3. Ray says

    Feb 7, 2018 at 10:49 am

    I was working at Boeing Flight Safety on 9/11. As soon as the names came up, there was a mad search to see if we had trained any of them. We hadn’t, but it’s a big liability.

  4. Westman says

    Feb 7, 2018 at 11:01 am

    Had this been Justin Trudeau’s Canada or May’s UK, this fellow would be re-socialized, or, “no longer of national security concern”.

    Thankfully, the FBI has removed this man’s potential for terrotism.

  5. Jaladhi says

    Feb 7, 2018 at 11:38 am

    Have we forgotten the lessons from 9/11 flight school jihadis?

  6. Ashley says

    Feb 7, 2018 at 1:37 pm

    Prosecutors say that he falsely answered questions on his visa application, including about whether he had supported terrorists.
    ______________

    I have to wonder just how many visa applicants admit to supporting terrorists.

  7. Indiana Tom says

    Feb 7, 2018 at 5:52 pm

    Mr. Alfallaj, 34, used a fraudulent visa to take private flying lessons in October 2016 in Oklahoma,
    I think the USAAF should have trained Japanese Kamikaze pilots during WWII.

  8. Hogdude says

    Feb 8, 2018 at 12:56 pm

    His new address will be: Gitmo, State of Cuba.

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