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Uber driver identified as Somali war criminal who burned men alive, executed others approved

May 16, 2019 5:36 pm By Christine Douglass-Williams

Yusuf Abdi Ali, “an alleged Somali war criminal accused of burning men alive and shooting a captor five times at point-blank range”, yet still, “Uber and Lyft approved him to drive”.

There has been first hand accounts and media investigations authenticating the identity of Ali. His passengers were at serious risk because with that kind of background, no one knows what could provoke an unleashing.

The case of Ali, Uber and Lyft is an extraordinary embarrassment to the FBI and Transportation Security Administration who did background checks but no one in those organizations considered doing a simple online search.

Western criminals who have gone through the court system and convicted have actually committed far lesser atrocities than jihadists overall, but yet remain behind bars (as they should be). Unfortunately, jihadists are walking free among us.

While media accounts do not confirm specifically that Yusuf Abdi Ali was a jihadist, given the history and demographics of Somalia, it is safe to say that he is. Unique about Somalia is the fact that it was an Islamic country for the past 1,400 years and some 99% of the population is Muslim. It is also a country that has been savaged by civil wars for the better part of the last several decades. Yusuf Abdi Ali is described as a rebel in the late 80’s, of which Somalia was under the leadership of Mohamed Siad Barre. Barre was overthrown during a bloody civil war in 1991, a war that Ali was engaged in as a rebel. Barre represented a scientific socialism brand of Islam, which angered many Islamic splinter groups that deemed Barre’s Islam to be a breakaway from Islamic orthodoxy. One can now see the resulting deterioration of Somalia–which by the way is blamed on colonialism. Somalia is now a cesspool of of jihadist groups, seeking dominance.  The best known jihadi group is al-Shabaab, which declared allegiance to al-Qaeda in 2012.

An eyewitness account of jihadi Ali….

“He caught my brother. He tied him to a military vehicle and dragged him behind,” one witness to Ali’s alleged atrocities in Somalia said in a 1992 documentary produced by the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. “He shredded him into pieces.”  Another witness said, “Two men were caught, tied to a tree. Oil was poured on them and they were burnt alive. I saw it with my own eyes.”

Ali’s case represents the dilemma in identifying peaceful civilians from gross enemy combatants within Western borders, of which the latter is infiltrated by enemy combatants–a development unaddressed by the outdated Geneva Convention. It is disturbing to think that one’s Uber driver may well be a mass murderer and has tortured innocents. So-called populist countries such as Hungary and Italy have been responsible enough to secure their borders to keep out enemy combatants (jihadists) while globalists seek open borders, despite the threats to public safety and to their constitutions.

“Uber driver accused of being a Somali war criminal”, by Lia Eustachewich, New York Post, May 15, 2019:

He’s an alleged Somali war criminal accused of burning men alive and shooting a captor five times at point-blank range — and, until recently, he was driving for Uber.

Yusuf Abdi Ali, a military commander in Somalia’s brutal civil war during the 1980s, has racked up a stellar 4.89 “Uber Pro Diamond” rating while driving through the Virginia suburbs over the past 18 months, CNN reported on Wednesday.

“I do this full-time,” Ali told an undercover reporter from the network, before bragging about how easy it was to get the gig. “They just want your background check, that’s it.
“If you apply tonight, maybe after two days it will come.”

Ali, who also formerly drove for Lyft, apparently slipped through cracks in the ride-share giants’ screening system because he has never been convicted of a crime — but a cursory online search of his name would have revealed abundant information on his alleged dark past.

“He caught my brother. He tied him to a military vehicle and dragged him behind,” one witness to Ali’s alleged atrocities in Somalia said in a 1992 documentary produced by the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. “He shredded him into pieces.”

Another witness said, “Two men were caught, tied to a tree. Oil was poured on them and they were burnt alive. I saw it with my own eyes.”

Ali — also known as Colonel Tukeh, or “the crow” — is additionally now the defendant in a federal lawsuit filed in Virginia by one of his alleged surviving victims.

Farhan Warfaa claims in that filing that Ali and his men, armed with AK-47s, abducted him and others from their village in the dead of night in 1987 on suspicion of helping Somali rebels steal a water tanker.

Warfaa said he and his group were held in a windowless cell and tortured for months.

One night in 1988, Ali was again interrogating Warfaa when rebels raided the base, the suit claims.

Ali purportedly took out his pistol, shot Warfaa five times and, believing he was dead, ordered his bodyguards to bury him, court filings say. Only Warfaa survived, and his family bribed Ali’s henchmen to let him go, according to the suit.

Ali has consistently denied the heinous allegations against him — including in 2016, when CNN first found him working security at Dulles International Airport outside Washington, DC.

Ali, who is in the United States legally on a visa through his Somali wife’s citizenship, cleared an FBI background check and a Transportation Security Administration assessment to get the Dulles job but was sidelined in the wake of the CNN report….

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  1. CRUSADER says

    May 16, 2019 at 5:51 pm

    At the very least, it is good news that Trump keeps IMMIGRATION on the front burner of the nation’s stove.

    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/president-trump-unveils-sweeping-plan-to-transform-americas-immigration-system

  2. Anjuli Pandavar says

    May 16, 2019 at 6:08 pm

    So, is anyone still going to object to profiling?

    • CRUSADER says

      May 16, 2019 at 6:14 pm

      What’re your views on “profiling” ?

      • Anjuli Pandavar says

        May 17, 2019 at 11:04 am

        Let’s start here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKbC3DBqXQc from about 4:55 onwards.

        • CRUSADER says

          May 17, 2019 at 2:37 pm

          “In Contact With Ebola”

          — sure can be serious !

    • Simo Hayha says

      May 17, 2019 at 8:55 am

      But, But, But, that is Profiling of wonderful, loving, socially adapting, enthusiastic nice people that the Liberal democrats keep INSISTING are the fruit of this nation’s place in being prosperous, right? Well, right? So, hey, a few live burnings here, a few live burnings there, not all THAT big of a deal. right?

  3. PABLO says

    May 16, 2019 at 6:53 pm

    “Judicial Watch: U.S. Customs, Homeland Security Records Reveal Somalis Given Security Briefings, ‘Community Engagement Tours’ in Secured Areas at Major U.S. Airports”.

    Why should anyone be surprised by the blunder that facilitated this war criminal getting into the USA.

  4. Wellington says

    May 16, 2019 at 7:31 pm

    Notice once again that yet another Somali is a “problem.” Hell, we have one of them, Omar, in a legislative body the likes of which Somalis could have never created. NEVER.

    To all Somalis I ask this: What have you ever done in all your history for the betterment of mankind? Seems to me you are a burden to mankind, even worse an aggregate parasite as well.

    Hey, Somalis, prove me wrong. Give it a shot. Because so far in my mind, again treating with matters in the aggregate, you are a piss-poor excuse for the human species.

    • CRUSADER says

      May 16, 2019 at 7:40 pm

      Ilhan Omar has no business on the House Foreign Affairs Committee!

      — Brigitte Gabriel , of ACT for AMERICA

    • Savvy Kafir says

      May 16, 2019 at 8:41 pm

      Ayaan Hirsi Ali is pretty impressive. The only person from Somalia I know of that I can say that about. But then she is an ex-Muslim who fled from Somalia and embraced Enlightenment ideals.

      • Wellington says

        May 16, 2019 at 8:47 pm

        I thought of mentioning her, but I concluded that one or two very lone exceptions hardly constitutes a reason for a reversal of an aggregate assessment which is voluminously documented.

        • Savvy Kafir says

          May 19, 2019 at 10:19 am

          That’s true, Wellington.

        • gravenimage says

          May 19, 2019 at 9:32 pm

          Agree, Savvy Kafir and Wellington.

      • LR says

        May 17, 2019 at 12:18 am

        I love Ayaan…She is an amazing person…Isn’t that why we want serious vetting?…So, we can allow more people like her in, and keep out idiots like Sharia Law supporters, apologists.

        • CRUSADER says

          May 17, 2019 at 1:45 am

          I’d agree to up my tax a bit to ensure that happens.

          Better vetting is a great idea.

          Phil “See Something, Say Nothing” Haney would agree for sure.

        • LB says

          May 17, 2019 at 10:34 am

          No serious vetting can occur where nothing is ever documented…

    • mortimer says

      May 17, 2019 at 8:32 am

      Response to Wellington: “What did Somalis contribute to the world?”

      Answer: Arab Slave Trade 16th to 20th centuries in Somalia

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_Somalia

      Bantu adult and children slaves (referred to collectively as jareer by their Somali masters) were purchased in the slave market exclusively to do undesirable work on plantation grounds. They were made to work in plantations owned by Somalis along the southern Shebelle and Jubba rivers, harvesting lucrative cash crops such as grain and cotton. Bantu slaves toiled under the control of and separately from their Somali patrons.

      The Indian Ocean slave trade was multi-directional and changed over time. To meet the demand for menial labor, Bantu slaves were captured by Somali slave traders from southeastern Africa were sold in cumulatively large numbers over the centuries to customers in Egypt, Arabia, the Persian Gulf, India, the Far East, the Indian Ocean islands, Ethiopia and Somalia.

      From 1800 to 1890, between 250,000–500,000 Bantu slaves are thought to have been sold from the slave market of Zanzibar alone to the Somali coast. Most of the slaves were from the Majindo, Makua, Nyasa, Yao, Zalama, Zaramo and Zigua ethnic groups of Tanzania, Mozambique and Malawi. Collectively, these Bantu groups are known as Mushunguli, which is a term taken from Mzigula, the Zigua tribe’s word for “people” (the word holds multiple implied meanings including “worker”, “foreigner”, and “slave”).

    • Simo Hayha says

      May 17, 2019 at 9:01 am

      MOAB. Somalia. Twenty five SHOULD do it. No? Not “there?”. Okay, 100 MOAB blockbuster helpers to calm down the head-choppers, pirate murderers. No? Not quite adequate? Oh, Hell, two, three thermo-nuclear heat generating clouds of instructions for the REST of the world to NOTICE! Sand to glass. B-52’s. Badda BING!

  5. Billy Chickens says

    May 16, 2019 at 11:02 pm

    That that evil Islamic piece of filth is driving around Virginia employed as an Uber driver is an utter disgrace.

  6. LR says

    May 17, 2019 at 12:53 am

    Well, I hope we find out for sure who this guy is. If he is that disgusting piece of filth, then Uber will have to eat crow.

    • LR says

      May 17, 2019 at 12:58 am

      And how the heck did he pass an FBI background check if his identity is in question?

      • nonchan says

        May 17, 2019 at 4:05 am

        What do you want to bet it was under the Obama Admin’s FBI?

  7. mortimer says

    May 17, 2019 at 8:20 am

    A man who committed crimes against humanity should be tried and sentenced to life imprisonment as were the Nazi criminals at Nuremburg.

    These crimes cannot be overlooked, because they MUST NOT BE REPEATED.

    • Brian hoff says

      May 17, 2019 at 11:00 am

      Very few of the worst nazie where caught or put on trail. The proof that Hitler escape Berlin is belong belief. First it was possible to escape Berlin untril the last mimute. All the SS men at the bunker lie when they said that Hitler himself.

      • gravenimage says

        May 19, 2019 at 9:34 pm

        “Brian hoff”–really, “DefenderofIslam”–wrote:

        The proof that Hitler escape Berlin is belong belief.
        ………………..

        Yep, it’s “beyond belief” all right…

        And note that “DefenderofIslam” doesn’t have anything critical to say about his pious coreligonist here.

  8. Brian hoff says

    May 17, 2019 at 10:17 am

    This doesnot surprise me. There are many level of background check. As blackground check cost go up by level. If you are hireing people to work for one day only you mightnot do than background chech at all.

    • gravenimage says

      May 19, 2019 at 9:36 pm

      Does “DefenderofIslam” here think its a good idea for Jihadi war criminals to be working as Uber drivers?

  9. Ed says

    May 17, 2019 at 10:32 am

    Typical of universal HR Departments today, having been educated by Leftist Liberal College Professors and turned loose to wreak havoc within Companies. Empowered to hire “qualified” personnel without having any practical working experience themselves, HR Departments are collectively too lazy to check on Candidates’ backgrounds other than relying on easily manipulated Social Media profiles like LinkedIn or Facebook. Today, a cleverly formatted Résumé supercedes real job experience by HR standards, having usurped traditional Line Managers’ hiring responsibility that traditionally had provided a degree of realism to hiring practices.

  10. Eric Jones says

    May 18, 2019 at 4:54 am

    Another hard working immigrant. The USA needs a moratorium on immigration.

    Eric

  11. gravenimage says

    May 19, 2019 at 9:28 pm

    Uber driver identified as Somali war criminal who burned men alive, executed others approved
    …………………

    *Good God*…

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