ISIS Hitman Arrested in U.S., Infiltrated as a Refugee

[dukkha]

On Wednesday, the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force raided an apartment in Sacramento, California and arrested Omar Ameen, a man wanted in Iraq on charges he murdered a police officer while flying the ISIS banner.
Court documents reportedly show that he snuck into the U.S. by lying his way through the refugee vetting system, something liberals suggested was impossible.

To apparently preserve that narrative, ABC and NBC had omitted the arrest from their morning and evening programs on Thursday.
The only mention of the shocking infiltration was on CBS This Morning in the form of a fleeting 27-seconds long news brief by co-anchor Gayle King who obviously brushed over how he got into the U.S.:

The Sacramento Bee reports federal agents arrested a suspected ISIS member in Northern California. 45-year-old Omar Ameen allegedly killed an Iraqi police officer back in 2014 while fighting for ISIS. He was taken into custody yesterday during a raid on an apartment complex. U.S. officials plan to extradite him to Iraq to face charges there. Ameen reportedly entered the U.S. seeking asylum as a refugee after lying about his background.

Meanwhile, on Fox News Channel’s Special Report, national correspondent William La Jeunesse went into far greater detail and addressed Ameen’s mode of infiltration.

“And what's being called one of the most significant arrests of an accused ISIS terrorist in the U.S., law enforcement swarmed a Sacramento apartment Wednesday looking for this man,” he began his report. “Omar Ameen, who according to prosecutors, was a hitman for ISIS and Al Qaeda.”

The speed in which Ameen went from ISIS frontline fighter to refugee taking refuge in the states was frightening. “Court documents say, Ameen, driving a pickup mounted with a machine gun and a black ISIS flag, killed an Iraqi policeman in June 2014. Five months later, Ameen entered the U.S. as a refugee despite what allegedly a thorough screening process,” La Jeunesse explained.

According to La Jeunesse, documentation played a very small part in vetting Ameen’s application. “Ameen claimed ISIS killed his father for cooperating with the U.S.” and said, “he never killed anyone”. But in reality, “FBI agents say they found at least eight witnesses who identified Ameen and his family as committed fanatics who planted IEDs to kill coalition forces.”

Of course, this incident raised important questions about the refugee vetting process in the United States and harkened back to the President’s travel ban which was greatly opposed by the liberal media.

The Trump administration imposed a travel ban last year over concerns terrorists could thwart the screening process. Claude Arnold, a former war crimes investigator, says this case shows they weren’t wrong,”

La Jeunesse noted.

According to Arnold, “This is a classic example of the vulnerabilities in the refugee system. (…) It really vindicates the administration’s reasoning behind implementing the travel ban.”
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb...trated-refugee

[dukkha]

ABC and NBC had omitted the arrest from their morning and evening programs on Thursday.
The only mention of the shocking infiltration was on CBS This Morning in the form of a fleeting 27-seconds long news brief by co-anchor Gayle King who obviously brushed over how he got into the U.S.:

another example of how fake news disinforms

[ThatOwlWoman]

Newsbusters. *snort*

Here's a less hysterical, more reasonable, and factual account of this dirtbag's arrest and alleged crimes.

"There was a fear that ISIS fighters might slip into the West under the guise of refugees, hidden among the hundreds of thousands who left the Middle East and Africa for Europe and North America since 2015. Though there have been relatively few terrorist incidents attributed to returning fighters, Ameen's case shows how refugee vetting systems can fail even when there is plenty of information about suspects available in their home countries."

https://www.newsweek.com/alleged-isi...n-iraq-1076261

[kudzu]

On Wednesday, the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force raided an apartment in Sacramento, California and arrested Omar Ameen, a man wanted in Iraq on charges he murdered a police officer while flying the ISIS banner.
Court documents reportedly show that he snuck into the U.S. by lying his way through the refugee vetting system, something liberals suggested was impossible.

To apparently preserve that narrative, ABC and NBC had omitted the arrest from their morning and evening programs on Thursday.
The only mention of the shocking infiltration was on CBS This Morning in the form of a fleeting 27-seconds long news brief by co-anchor Gayle King who obviously brushed over how he got into the U.S.:

The Sacramento Bee reports federal agents arrested a suspected ISIS member in Northern California. 45-year-old Omar Ameen allegedly killed an Iraqi police officer back in 2014 while fighting for ISIS. He was taken into custody yesterday during a raid on an apartment complex. U.S. officials plan to extradite him to Iraq to face charges there. Ameen reportedly entered the U.S. seeking asylum as a refugee after lying about his background.

Meanwhile, on Fox News Channel’s Special Report, national correspondent William La Jeunesse went into far greater detail and addressed Ameen’s mode of infiltration.

“And what's being called one of the most significant arrests of an accused ISIS terrorist in the U.S., law enforcement swarmed a Sacramento apartment Wednesday looking for this man,” he began his report. “Omar Ameen, who according to prosecutors, was a hitman for ISIS and Al Qaeda.”

The speed in which Ameen went from ISIS frontline fighter to refugee taking refuge in the states was frightening. “Court documents say, Ameen, driving a pickup mounted with a machine gun and a black ISIS flag, killed an Iraqi policeman in June 2014. Five months later, Ameen entered the U.S. as a refugee despite what allegedly a thorough screening process,” La Jeunesse explained.

According to La Jeunesse, documentation played a very small part in vetting Ameen’s application. “Ameen claimed ISIS killed his father for cooperating with the U.S.” and said, “he never killed anyone”. But in reality, “FBI agents say they found at least eight witnesses who identified Ameen and his family as committed fanatics who planted IEDs to kill coalition forces.”

Of course, this incident raised important questions about the refugee vetting process in the United States and harkened back to the President’s travel ban which was greatly opposed by the liberal media. La Jeunesse noted.

According to Arnold, “This is a classic example of the vulnerabilities in the refugee system. (…) It really vindicates the administration’s reasoning behind implementing the travel ban.”
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb...trated-refugee

I just did a Google news search on Omar Ameen.. and came up with page after page of news reports.

[dukkha]

Newsbusters. *snort*

Here's a less hysterical, more reasonable, and factual account of this dirtbag's arrest and alleged crimes.

"There was a fear that ISIS fighters might slip into the West under the guise of refugees, hidden among the hundreds of thousands who left the Middle East and Africa for Europe and North America since 2015. Though there have been relatively few terrorist incidents attributed to returning fighters, Ameen's case shows how refugee vetting systems can fail even when there is plenty of information about suspects available in their home countries."

https://www.newsweek.com/alleged-isi...n-iraq-1076261

According to the arrest memo, “It is common knowledge in Rawah, Iraq, that Ameen was a main local figure of [Al-Qaeda in Iraq] and ISIS.”

Newsbusters brought up the fact that the refugee vetting system in place under Obama was severely lacking -why I used it - as well as the fact the fake news networks did not report this

[Darth Omar]

On Wednesday, the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force raided an apartment in Sacramento, California and arrested Omar Ameen, a man wanted in Iraq on charges he murdered a police officer while flying the ISIS banner.
Court documents reportedly show that he snuck into the U.S. by lying his way through the refugee vetting system, something liberals suggested was impossible.

To apparently preserve that narrative, ABC and NBC had omitted the arrest from their morning and evening programs on Thursday.
The only mention of the shocking infiltration was on CBS This Morning in the form of a fleeting 27-seconds long news brief by co-anchor Gayle King who obviously brushed over how he got into the U.S.:

The Sacramento Bee reports federal agents arrested a suspected ISIS member in Northern California. 45-year-old Omar Ameen allegedly killed an Iraqi police officer back in 2014 while fighting for ISIS. He was taken into custody yesterday during a raid on an apartment complex. U.S. officials plan to extradite him to Iraq to face charges there. Ameen reportedly entered the U.S. seeking asylum as a refugee after lying about his background.

Meanwhile, on Fox News Channel’s Special Report, national correspondent William La Jeunesse went into far greater detail and addressed Ameen’s mode of infiltration.

“And what's being called one of the most significant arrests of an accused ISIS terrorist in the U.S., law enforcement swarmed a Sacramento apartment Wednesday looking for this man,” he began his report. “Omar Ameen, who according to prosecutors, was a hitman for ISIS and Al Qaeda.”

The speed in which Ameen went from ISIS frontline fighter to refugee taking refuge in the states was frightening. “Court documents say, Ameen, driving a pickup mounted with a machine gun and a black ISIS flag, killed an Iraqi policeman in June 2014. Five months later, Ameen entered the U.S. as a refugee despite what allegedly a thorough screening process,” La Jeunesse explained.

According to La Jeunesse, documentation played a very small part in vetting Ameen’s application. “Ameen claimed ISIS killed his father for cooperating with the U.S.” and said, “he never killed anyone”. But in reality, “FBI agents say they found at least eight witnesses who identified Ameen and his family as committed fanatics who planted IEDs to kill coalition forces.”

Of course, this incident raised important questions about the refugee vetting process in the United States and harkened back to the President’s travel ban which was greatly opposed by the liberal media. La Jeunesse noted.

According to Arnold, “This is a classic example of the vulnerabilities in the refugee system. (…) It really vindicates the administration’s reasoning behind implementing the travel ban.”
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb...trated-refugee

The enemy of the people is only mildly hyperbolic.

Mildly.

[dukkha]

I just did a Google news search on Omar Ameen.. and came up with page after page of news reports.

on the internet. not on the fake news networks -except the 27 second coverage by CBS.

ISIS hitman in the US is big news- fake news chooses to ignore it

[canceled.2021.2]

Guess it runs counter to leftist narrative

Also not hearing about muslimes training kids to conduct school shootings

FBI ignored it. Then they tear down the compound. What are they hiding?

Just like Vegas

[Darth Omar]

Guess it runs counter to leftist narrative

Also not hearing about muslimes training kids to conduct school shootings

FBI ignored it. Then they tear down the compound. What are they hiding?

Just like Vegas

If it had been a right wing extremist group instead of a radical Muslim group it would have knocked Omarosa off the news cycle lol.

That’s actually not funny.

[Irish Exit]

Newsbusters. *snort*

Here's a less hysterical, more reasonable, and factual account of this dirtbag's arrest and alleged crimes.

"There was a fear that ISIS fighters might slip into the West under the guise of refugees, hidden among the hundreds of thousands who left the Middle East and Africa for Europe and North America since 2015. Though there have been relatively few terrorist incidents attributed to returning fighters, Ameen's case shows how refugee vetting systems can fail even when there is plenty of information about suspects available in their home countries."

https://www.newsweek.com/alleged-isi...n-iraq-1076261

Isn't it a bit hysterical to definitively declare him a dirtbag and then refer to his crimes as "alleged", xenophob?

[dukkha]

Guess it runs counter to leftist narrative

Also not hearing about muslimes training kids to conduct school shootings

FBI ignored it. Then they tear down the compound. What are they hiding?

Just like Vegas

yikes..I forgot that one! that was horrendous

[ThatOwlWoman]

Newsbusters brought up the fact that the refugee vetting system in place under Obama was severely lacking -why I used it - as well as the fact the fake news networks did not report this

My link to the Newsweek article (and there were many others when I just googled the guy's name) disproves your idea that the MSM did not report this event. As for blaming it on Obama. Whatever. No vetting system is perfect. Obama hasn't been president for two years. In the end the jerk snuck in but committed no crimes that we know of, at least.

If you want to ban all immigration, knock yourself out writing futilely to your congresscritters.

[ThatOwlWoman]

Isn't it a bit hysterical to definitively declare him a dirtbag and then refer to his crimes as "alleged", xenophob?

Heh, you're funny. I'm about as much of a xenophobe as you are an astronaut. He's known to be associated with both Al Queda and ISIS, accused of murder.... by his home country(ies). "Alleged" is because no conviction yet. "Dirtbag" because of the association with terrorist groups.

Sounds like you're a fan of Mr. Ameen.

[kudzu]

on the internet. not on the fake news networks -except the 27 second coverage by CBS.

ISIS hitman in the US is big news- fake news chooses to ignore it

There were hundreds of reports about Omar Ameen.

Why do you guys ALWAYS claim the big news isn't reporting it when AP, Reuters, UPI and many more ALL covered it.

[Irish Exit]

Heh, you're funny. I'm about as much of a xenophobe as you are an astronaut. He's known to be associated with both Al Queda and ISIS, accused of murder.... by his home country(ies). "Alleged" is because no conviction yet. "Dirtbag" because of the association with terrorist groups.

Sounds like you're a fan of Mr. Ameen.

How do you know he is the right man? Are you in his hadith of the month club?