NYT reports on serious concerns with refugee
terrorists in US, Posted by Ann Corcoran on February 21, 2016
I wonder how
many of you saw this story? It was in the New York Times on Friday (LOL! how many
of us bother to read the NYT?), and is actually very useful and informative.
Fourteen
refugees, who came in through the UN/US State Dept. Refugee Admissions
Program, have been arrested in the last two years on terror charges!
Kid next door!
Aws Mohammed Younis Al-Jayab. Photo: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3391652/Aws-Mohammed-Younis-Al-Jayabs-discussed-plans-Houston-man-join-fight-Syria.html
We learned a
lot about the alleged terrorist at the heart of the NYT story, Aws
Mohammed Younis Al-Jayab, last month at the UK
Daily Mail. He is an Iraqi-born Palestinian who came here as a
refugee via Syria.
Longtime
readers may remember that Saddam Hussein had invited Palestinians to Iraq and
when his government fell, many moved to Syria and the US kindly began admitting them to the US
as refugees.
This
story back in 2009 was big news at the time because we don’t take Palestinians in any large
numbers in the Refugee Admissions Program.
WASHINGTON —
The arrest of a California man on charges that he traveled to Syria to fight
with terrorist groups, then lied about it to the Department of Homeland
Security, offers new ammunition for both sides in the fierce debate over the
refugee policy of the Obama administration.
Conservatives
and some federal law enforcement officials say the case of the Californian, Aws
Mohammed Younis al-Jayab, 23, shows that the refugee program leaves the nation
vulnerable to terrorism. But Homeland Security officials and Democrats in Congress contend that
his arrest demonstrates that the system works. The system worked for this guy, but how many
more Mohammeds are out there?
Before his
arrest, Mr. Jayab seemed like a typical young adult: He liked sports cars,
studied computer programming at a community college in Sacramento and worked
nights as a security guard.
Farmer thought
refugee screening was secure, until now!
But the federal
authorities have charged that Mr. Jayab, who was born in Iraq and came to the
United States as a refugee from Syria, traveled to that war-torn country from
late 2013 to early 2014 to fight on the side of terrorist groups and then lied
about it to the authorities.
Still, some
members of Congress and security experts say the arrest of Mr. Jayab has forced
them to question the screening process. Federal court documents show that at least 14
people who came to the United States as refugees have been arrested on
terrorism charges in the last two years, including Mr. Jayab.
“I thought that it was
very secure until I saw the arrest in California and Texas,” said John J.
Farmer Jr., former senior counsel to the federal commission that investigated
the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, who is now a professor at Rutgers. “Now, I have
my concerns.” Continue
reading here. Rural Montanans do have something to worry about!
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