Spokane, Washington: Secret decoder ring needed in
kidnap case, by Ann Corcoran 6/28/18.
A 28-year-old “man” has been arrested in a violent
kidnapping case, luckily the woman fought back and escaped.
Ann Coulter once
said that the way news stories are written about crime cases involving migrants
and refugees one needs a “secret
decoder ring” to
figure out what nationality the alleged attacker is and what might be his or
her immigration status.
Reader
Linda sent me the story from Spokane and this morning I had a few minutes to
search news stories about the arrest of Atif Ado.
After reading a couple of stories, I’m concluding that he is most
likely a refugee.
The last name Ado is a common surname in Niger, but we don’t generally take
refugees from Niger.
According
to the US State Department’s data base, Wrapsnet, Spokane welcomed (in the last ten
years) 344 refugees from the DR Congo, 117 from Eritrea, 149 from Somali and
192 from Sudan.
Before
I tell you more, here is one of several local news stories about the attack. This
one gives us our first real clue! I’d like to know though if there are any
curious reporters out there willing to find out exactly how the alleged
kidnapper got in to the US.
From KXLY: SPOKANE,
Wash. – A woman managed to fight off an attacker on the TJ Meenach bridge
shortly after 2 a.m. on Sunday morning.
The
man accused of attacking her, 28-year-old Atif Ado, appeared in court Monday
morning. A judge set his bond at $100,000. Ado also had a translator to translate the
proceedings into Arabic.
The
interpreter is shown over Ado’s left shoulder in the photo. Be sure to
watch the video that accompanies the KXLY story.
Ado is accused of attacking that woman near the bridge and attempting
to pull her into a secluded area where they couldn’t be seen.
According
to court documents, that woman says a man yelled to her near the bridge that he
needed help with his car. She said she could not assist him and kept walking.
But,
as she tried to take a shortcut home through some trees, the victim says her
attacker grabbed her and pointed a bb gun at her head.
“In
this particular instance, this guy had very realistic replica firearm in his
pocket,” said Spokane Police Department Public Information Officer John
O’Brien. “Who’s to know what is and what isn’t a real gun?”
Court
documents say the victim struggled with her attacker as she tried to climb a
hill to escape. As she called 911, the attacker pulled her back down the hill
where she fought him off once again, this time getting out for good.
“I’m
glad this woman was able to get away, fighting back and get away from that
situation,” O’Brien said.
Ado
is scheduled to make his next court appearance on July 3 at 9:30. More here. Okay, so we know he needed an Arabic translator. BTW, if
you didn’t know, Arabic is the number one language spoken by refugees admitted to the US.
Arabic
is also the number one language spoken in the Sudan and is a working language
in Eritrea and Somalia, but not a recognized language in the DR Congo (he also
doesn’t have the broad features of the Congolese). So we can do some
speculating narrowing down his nationality.
For critics who don’t like me speculating about his immigration status
or nationality, all I can say is that we are entitled to know which immigration
program admitted this man or if he is here illegally.
And,
if you don’t want the word “refugee” further sullied, you should join me in
demanding that the public is fully informed of immigration status by the police
and the media, or otherwise we
will assume, based on the evidence we can find, that he is a refugee (who
wasn’t thoroughly screened!).
Note to local Spokane reporters….Check out World Relief Spokane,
the primary federally-funded resettlement agency there. See if they will admit
that he is one of theirs.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA
Tea Party Leader
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