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| Iraqi refugee admits terrorist intentions in black eye for Obama's resettlement program |
| 2016-10-19 |
| [Wash Times] A man who came to the U.S. as a refugee from Iraq admitted in court papers Monday that he taught himself to build detonators for improvised explosive devices, trained to use automatic rifles and plotted to sign up as a martyr for the Islamic State group. Omar Faraj Saeed Al Hardan’s case is a black eye for the Syrian refugee program, which officials said they modeled on the Iraqi program, using lessons learned to create the vetting system that President Obama and other top officials have promised would weed out terrorists. But Al Hardan managed to get into the U.S. in 2009 as a teenager after spending time in refugee camps in Jordan and Iraq. Two years after he arrived, he was granted a green card by the Obama administration and quickly began to plot to join one of the terrorist networks fighting in the Middle East. Federal agents sniffed him out in 2014 and had an informant make contact with him, observing Al Hardan take a loyalty oath to the Islamic State and train with an AK-47 rifle. He agreed to plead guilty to one terrorism charge and will be sentenced in January. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the agency that approved Al Hardan’s refugee application, said it wouldn’t comment on his specific case, but insisted it is taking steps to weed out terrorists. Con't. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #6 The same story as the lads who blew uo the Boston Marathon and a number of others: brought here as kids, did not adjust well, turned radical because the fault could not be something in themselves. Methodism simply failed to catch on. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2016-10-19 15:13 |
| #5 The same story as the lads who blew uo the Boston Marathon and a number of others: brought here as kids, did not adjust well, turned radical because the fault could not be something in themselves. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2016-10-19 15:11 |
| #4 A 'black eye'? I thought that was the purpose of the program. |
| Posted by: Raj 2016-10-19 10:38 |
| #3 but Oblahblah's program is totes different because...something |
| Posted by: Frank G 2016-10-19 08:31 |
| #2 An Iraqi refugee (read as ISIS terrorist) in a Trojan Horse operation? But the government said this couldn't be. Jeebus, that caught me off guard. Resettlement program = Dem voter recruitment program. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2016-10-19 06:57 |
| #1 Probably just an Iraqi 'lone wolf.' |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2016-10-19 06:08 |