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2020-05-17 Home Front: WoT
Pak Doctor on H-1B Visa Wanted to Attack U.S. for ISIS
[BREITBART] A Pak doctor, admitted to the United States through the H-1B visa program, wanted to attack Americans for the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(ISIS), federal agents say in a criminal complaint.

Muhammad Masood, a 28-year-old Pak national, first arrived in the U.S. in February 2018 after he was able to secure an H-1B visa — the visa program whereby more than 100,000 foreign workers are brought to the U.S. every year and are allowed to stay for up to six years. There are about 650,000 H-1B visa foreign workers in the U.S. at any given moment.

Masood worked as an H-1B visa holder "research coordinator" at a medical clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.
That’d be the Mayo Clinic, according to his previous appearance on these pages.
According to a criminal complaint by federal agents with the Department of Justice (DOJ), Masood repeatedly stated his wanting to commit terrorism on Americans for ISIS while in the U.S. on his H-1B visa.

"[Masood] indicated ... because he was currently in the United States, ’sometimes I want to attack [the] enemy when I am behind enemy [lines] itself’ because ’not many people [can] even reach here to attack,'" the criminal complaint states. "Discussing his travel to [commit jihad for ISIS], [Masood] noted that he will lose the chance to conduct an attack in the United States: ’I wonder if I will miss the opportunity of attacking the enemy when I was in the middle of it.'"

In another message through a messaging app, Masood said he had intended to attack Americans in the U.S. while on his H-1B visa but decided to make travel plans to fight for ISIS in Syria instead, according to federal agents.

"You know [brother] ... there is so much I wanted to do here ... [lone wolf] stuff you know... but I realized [I] should be on the ground helping brothers, sisters, kids inshAllah," Masood allegedly wrote in a message.

On February 21, federal agents said Masood bought a plane ticket from reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown
...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel...
, Illinois, to Amman, Jordan, where he then planned to travel to Syria. After Masood was forced to cancel his trip to Jordan due to the Chinese coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
crisis, he bought a plane ticket from Minneapolis, Minnesota, to Los Angeles, Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,.

On March 19, Masood was taken into custody by federal agents after arriving at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport to board his flight.

Masood has been charged with attempting to provide material support to ISIS.
Posted by Fred 2020-05-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11137 views ]  Top
 File under: Islamic State 

#1 H1Bs are the equivalent of moving production off shore. Reduces the incentive to invest in Americans developing the skills.
Posted by Procopius2k 2020-05-17 06:00||   2020-05-17 06:00|| Front Page Top

#2 ^Don't you think it's the other way around?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-05-17 06:01||   2020-05-17 06:01|| Front Page Top

#3 When I was in IT in the early 90s, I'd get the trade publication Compterworld. The back section contained want ads. It was filled with page long listings for a job with very precise skill sets. No one had all those skills. It was just a CYA process for the company to justify getting a H1B. There was no Q&A process by the government to audit whether the H1B hire met all those skill sets. It was a game. It destroyed the incentive to put in the years and study (investment) to get skills only to have someone from overseas take the jobs. See - Disney replacing American workers already doing the jobs with H1B hires.
Posted by Procopius2k 2020-05-17 06:27||   2020-05-17 06:27|| Front Page Top

#4 ^^ These types of job listings still exist.
Posted by Phineter Turkeyneck6202 2020-05-17 06:48||   2020-05-17 06:48|| Front Page Top

#5 The government is famous for tailoring job descriptions to fit a particular candidate, then fielding the job posting for the minimum amount of time. But, but, but it's not the dreaded candidate 'pre-selection.' Follows is a hypothetical example:

Candiate must have Rakahanga-Manihiki language skills at the native fluency level.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-05-17 06:54||   2020-05-17 06:54|| Front Page Top

#6 #3 I wonder why - are there different labor laws for natives vs. foreigners?

p.s. Your argument doesn't explain why there are so many foreign born in USA universities STEM departments.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-05-17 07:16||   2020-05-17 07:16|| Front Page Top

#7 ...see how many are tenured.
Posted by Procopius2k 2020-05-17 07:44||   2020-05-17 07:44|| Front Page Top

#8 ^I'm talking about tenured.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-05-17 08:16||   2020-05-17 08:16|| Front Page Top

#9 A PhD is a guaranteed Green Card. For an American, you never make up the difference in lost wages when getting a PhD.
Posted by Phusotle Dingle5823 2020-05-17 08:31||   2020-05-17 08:31|| Front Page Top

#10 Masood could have killed hundreds by just being an incompetent doctor. The AMA would have backed him up.
Posted by Phusotle Dingle5823 2020-05-17 08:32||   2020-05-17 08:32|| Front Page Top

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