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FBI translator arrested for altering transcripts of calls he made to Al-Shabab jihad terror suspect

May 7, 2019 12:17 pm By Christine Douglass-Williams

Islamic supremacists have infiltrated every sector of America, and in fact Western society. Disturbingly, they occupy positions of trust.

FBI translator Abdirizak Wehelie (aka Haji Raghewhose) whose “son is in prison for supporting ISIS” was arrested for altering the transcripts of calls he made to a jihad terrorism suspect, “in which his own voice was caught on intercepts.”

His son, Yusuf Wehelie, is already serving 10 years in prison for transporting weapons in a case where he is said to have spoken with an undercover witness about his desire to shoot up a military recruitment center on behalf of the Islamic State group….He and another son, Yahya, were also barred from returning to the U.S. in 2010 on an overseas trip until they successfully overturned their status on the no-fly list.

The most difficult challenge any country could possibly face in a war, is when its enemies are free to roam to operate stealthily from within. In his trusted position with the FBI, translator Abdirizak Wehelie, would also have access to documents that could put American interests and citizens at risk. Given that Wehelie’s sons are known jihadists, it should have initially raised red flags with senior authorities at the FBI.

In December 2012, a man targeted by the FBI in an investigation connected to the Al-Shabab terrorist group in Somalia called and left a voicemail message for Wehelie, court documents say.  The call was intercepted under court-ordered surveillance, and Wehelie was tasked the next day with translating the call.

Wehelie tried to deny ever speaking to the suspected Al-Shabab jihadist, but “a subsequent FBI investigation is said to have revealed that the two had nearly 180 phone contacts from 2010 to 2017.”

Wehelie also previously joined CAIR in an attempt to shut down the American government’s terror screening database.

Wehelie sure knew the ‘right’ organization to run to, in his attempts to shelter himself from his jihadist dealings– Hamas-linked CAIR.

CAIR followed up with a lawsuit against the Trump Administration, using the same tired strategy of victimhood  (Islamophobia).  It “argued that counterterrorism measures imposed by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection amounted to a kind of second-class citizenship.”

In another unnerving case involving the FBI:  the agency knew in advance about an impending jihad attack on a free speech event that Robert Spencer co-hosted with Pamela Geller in Garland Texas. One can only imagine the possible disastrous outcome had the the event’s private security team not stopped the jihadists.  More shocking information about the FBI emerged “in August 2016 that an undercover FBI agent encouraged the jihadis:

Days before an ISIS sympathizer attacked a cartoon contest in Garland, Texas, he received a text from an undercover FBI agent. ‘Tear up Texas,’ the agent messaged Elton Simpson days before he opened fire at the Draw Muhammad event.

In a followup miscarriage of justice, a federal court judge dismissed the lawsuit that alleged the FBI role in the 2015 jihad attack at the Garland event.

Donald Trump once declared that exposing the “corrupt FBI” probe against him could be the ‘crowning achievement’ of presidency.”  Beyond the Russian collusion case, the FBI is in need of a general anti-corruption overhaul and cleanup.

“FBI translator whose son is in prison for supporting ISIS is arrested ‘for altering transcripts of calls he made to terrorism suspect'”, by Lauren Fruen, Daily Mail, May 6, 2019:

A former FBI linguistics expert has been arrested accused of obstructing a federal investigation after a terror suspect allegedly left a voicemail on his cell phone, it has been revealed.

Federal authorities charged the former translator with making false statements after they say he altered transcripts of calls in which his own voice was caught on intercepts.

Abdirizak Wehelie, aka Haji Raghe, was arrested Saturday night at an airport after returning to the U.S. on an international fight, according to Josh Stueve, a spokesman for the US attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia.

The 66-year-old, who lives with his family in St. Burk, Virginia, is a former contract translator for the federal agency.

His son, Yusuf Wehelie, is already serving 10 years in prison for transporting weapons in a case where he is said to have spoken with an undercover witness about his desire to shoot up a military recruitment center on behalf of the Islamic State group.

FOX5 reported in 2016 Yusuf also told undercover agents he wanted to travel to Libya to join ISIS.

He and another son, Yahya, were also barred from returning to the U.S. in 2010 on an overseas trip until they successfully overturned their status on the no-fly list.

Both brothers were said to have been detained in Cairo after returning from Yemen.

An indictment unsealed Monday states that Wehelie worked as a contractor for the FBI from 2012 to 2015.

In December 2012, a man targeted by the FBI in an investigation connected to the Al-Shabab terrorist group in Somalia called and left a voicemail message for Wehelie, court documents say.

The call was intercepted under court-ordered surveillance, and Wehelie was tasked the next day with translating the call, according to authorities.

But he allegedly marked himself down as ‘unidentified male’ even though the voicemail message on Wehelie’s cellphone identified him as ‘Abdirizak Wehelie.’

The FBI questioned Wehelie about his actions in 2016. At the time, according to the indictment, Wehelie admitted that he should not have identified himself as an ‘unidentified male’ on that translation.

He also reportedly told FBI agents that he had never actually had a phone conversation with the person who called him and that he didn’t know the person very well.

But a subsequent FBI investigation is said to have revealed that the two had nearly 180 phone contacts from 2010 to 2017….

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  1. Tom Cheria says

    May 7, 2019 at 12:20 pm

    Moral of the story: Never trust anyone who respects a slave owner as greatest prophet.

    • ninetyninepct says

      May 8, 2019 at 9:10 pm

      Never ever hire a Muslim and do not rent to them. Nothing but lies, grief and trouble.

  2. Keys says

    May 7, 2019 at 12:28 pm

    The community organizer who was elected President spent two terms placing allies sympathetic to Islam throughout the government and the country he planned to fundamentally change.

  3. Mac-101 says

    May 7, 2019 at 12:36 pm

    So the Bad Muslim who the FBI thought was a Good Muslim was really a REAL Good Muslim?

    • James Lincoln says

      May 7, 2019 at 4:26 pm

      Exactly Mac-101.

      Always beware when a Muslim “in name only” wants to become a “better” Muslim.

      Better for whom ???

    • gravenimage says

      May 7, 2019 at 9:12 pm

      Spot on, Mac.

      • Mac-101 says

        May 8, 2019 at 12:02 am

        Yup, Gravin. You can’t make this stuff up. Especially with dat purple bump on his forehead. The FBI can’t be this STUPID!

  4. Clive Delmonte says

    May 7, 2019 at 12:43 pm

    You’d think because this chap’s sons had terror connections this would automatically disbar the father from any further sensitive work for the US government. It all smacks of sloppy security services asleep at the wheel.

  5. Darryl Kerney says

    May 7, 2019 at 1:34 pm

    Must be a very devoted slave of allah, notice the prominent prayer bump on his forehead.

  6. Nonie Darwish says

    May 7, 2019 at 2:39 pm

    How could the FBI hire a man with a ‘Zebiba’ on his forehead. Zebiba is a dark dot or circle intentionally marked on the forehead by radical Muslims to show the world how devoted Muslims they are, meaning they are constantly praying with their forehead to the ground making this mark a sign of Islamic devotion. The FBI is crazy to hire him!

    • christianblood says

      May 7, 2019 at 6:15 pm

      Nonie Darwish

      You beat me to it, Nonie!

      That black mark on his forehead is the very mark of a devoted worship to the satanic, blood-thirsty, murderous allah! You are absolutely right, The FBI is very stupid and crazy to have hired a Somali islamist with that bloody, satanic mark on his forehead! Their ignorance and stupidity is thousand feet deep!

      • CRUSADER says

        May 8, 2019 at 3:25 am

        It’s as if it spells out 666 in dark circle.

    • christianblood says

      May 7, 2019 at 6:27 pm

      Nonie Darwish

      You wonder if the FBI would ever hire someone like Nonie who could explain them what the “Zebiba” mark is all about? O’ yeah, they would surely consider that as an “islamophobic”? Is there any hope for the West?

      Cultural Marxists (Frankfurt School) is indeed destroying the West!

      • CRUSADER says

        May 8, 2019 at 2:41 am

        Actually, nice video there.

        • christianblood says

          May 8, 2019 at 8:01 am

          CRUSADER

          +1

    • gravenimage says

      May 7, 2019 at 9:15 pm

      Very true, Ms. Darwish.

    • Norger says

      May 8, 2019 at 12:15 am

      For sure, no one in the FBI even considered what the zebiba might mean with respect to this man’s loyalties. The FBI is essentially prohibited from studying the connection between Islamic theology and terrorism or even considering the possibility that such a connection just might maybe, possibly exist.

      • CRUSADER says

        May 8, 2019 at 3:23 am

        Phil Haney (“See Something, Say Nothing”) sure tried warning America….

      • christianblood says

        May 8, 2019 at 8:03 am

        Norger posted

        (… The FBI is essentially prohibited from studying the connection between Islamic theology and terrorism…)

        Even under Trump?

    • CRUSADER says

      May 8, 2019 at 2:40 am

      As in THE Nonie Darwish?

      😉

      • christianblood says

        May 8, 2019 at 8:04 am

        Nopel Peace Price For Nonie!

      • gravenimage says

        May 8, 2019 at 9:50 pm

        Yes–the great Nonie Darwish does post here at Jihad Watch.

        I had a chance to hear her speak at Berkeley some years ago.

  7. James Lincoln says

    May 7, 2019 at 4:33 pm

    I think that the FBI is getting stricter regarding their hiring processes.

    A good friend of mine, a retired Army Colonel, just get hired for a high-level civil service FBI position. The security screening process took close to a year. I was interviewed for over an hour by an FBI special investigator. Very in-depth interview.

    I was impressed with the process.

    I hope that this is indicative of the new FBI…

    • gravenimage says

      May 7, 2019 at 9:23 pm

      I hope so.

    • christianblood says

      May 7, 2019 at 9:52 pm

      James Lincoln

      Do they even understand what the “Zebiba” mark means?

    • Jim Raclawski says

      May 8, 2019 at 2:01 am

      as a result of the actions of our feckless political elites we are faced with an unknown number of potential bad guys “inside the wire”

  8. RonH says

    May 7, 2019 at 5:33 pm

    Obama and the Democrats allowed these people to infiltrate our government under the guise of not appearing to be Islamophobic, CAIR is a terrorist supporting organization and should be banned, and I think for now we all need to be Islamophobic, or someday you may become Islamic or beheaded.

  9. owensgate says

    May 7, 2019 at 6:09 pm

    Praise the Lord we won WWII before this insane wave of Politically Correct indifference to reality took over. Had the U.S. Government hired great numbers of German-American Bund members in the late 30’s, we might very well have been speaking German now. What’s with these idiots?

  10. CRUSADER says

    May 7, 2019 at 7:20 pm

    Phil “See Something, Say Nothing” Haney
    warned America about this nefarious agency idiocy….

  11. Bella says

    May 7, 2019 at 7:33 pm

    Never trust a moslem – don’t hire, sell to them or rent to them.

  12. gravenimage says

    May 7, 2019 at 9:10 pm

    FBI translator arrested for altering transcripts of calls he made to Al-Shabab jihad terror suspect
    ……………………

    And his son is a Jihadist. Who knew?

    Don’t hire Muslims–*especially* not to protect Infidels from Jihad.

  13. CRUSADER says

    May 7, 2019 at 9:52 pm

    We are not immune to the colonization by Islam….

  14. elee says

    May 8, 2019 at 10:30 am

    SLEEPERS…..and we don’t know the wakeup codes……if indeed they do.

  15. J. B. Mayo says

    May 8, 2019 at 3:23 pm

    This is probably one of the most revealing, true and saddest quotes I’ve read in quite awhile:

    “Islamic supremacists have infiltrated every sector of America, and in fact Western society. Disturbingly, they occupy positions of trust.”

    The eight year reign of the Obama Administration has allowed tons of folks into government service, who should have never passed the background investigation. Many of these folks despise America and are in fact our enemies, but now occupy high level positions of trust. Obama has permitted perhaps quasi terrorist cells to now occupy positions in our government, lets not forget the special privileges he granted the Muslim Brotherhood to be part of “his” government.

    I truly believe this article barely scratches the tip of the iceberg. The United States needs to close ALL of their borders. They need to eliminate immigration from any country and any group (“Religious” or not) who’s own faith and beliefs commands and demands that they kill and destroy us, by whatever means possible. This is just another shining example of the dark, traitorous, treacherous conduct that was routine practice during the Obama Administration.

    Also, this is the reason President Trump has to spend much of his first term, being the “Roto-Rooter” Man, unplugging and draining the swamp. I truly believe President Trump will get much more done in his second term once he is (and will be) reelected. It is also time for a complete tear down and overhaul of the F.B.I., an agency I once respected and now completely distrust. God Help Us!

  16. UNCLE VLADDI says

    May 9, 2019 at 1:25 am

    You know, if we bothered to rescue from the muslims any Syrian Yezidis at all, they’d probably be willing to work as FBI translators to keep muslims in line for free. But that would make sense and solve problems, and as we all know, the motto of all authorities is “There’s No Money In Solutions, so Please Give Generously – AGAIN!” Whee.

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