by Arnold Ahlert
A case study in Obama's refugee folly.
The fecklessness of the Obama administration’s despicable “refugee” agenda can be personified. Last August a federal jury convicted Uzbek
refugee Fazliddin Kurbanov of three terror-related charges that
included working to support a terrorist organization, and amassing
explosive materials in his apartment in Boise, ID.
Kurbanov is a Russian-speaking truck driver originally from Uzbekistan
who began his life as a Muslim. When his parents converted to Orthodox
Christianity, the family was subjected to
government persecution and they fled to nearby Kazakhstan. In 2009 his
parents came to the Unites States, followed shortly thereafter by
Kurbanov, his wife and his son in August 2009.
According to court testimony, Kurbanov was a practicing Christian
until he went to Denver in search of work in 2010. While there he met
and took up residence with some fellow Uzbek men who were practicing
Muslims. Kurbanov reconverted to Islam and returned to Boise. In 2011 he
began making terror-related searches on the Internet. Two years later,
federal agents searched his apartment where they found evidence that the
former refugee was stockpiling explosive materials and communicating
with the Taliban-linked Movement of Uzbekistan. According to the FBI,
Kurbanov intend to launch a domestic bomb attack, with military bases
and a park in Boise being cited as potential targets.
Kurbanov’s trial in Idaho lasted 20 days with a jury convicting him of
three terror-related counts and acquitting him of two others. He faces
10 years in prison for the explosive device conviction and as much 15
years in jail for the other two. In addition, he faces another charge in
Utah for distributing information related to explosives, destructive
devices and weapons of mass destruction, arising from his efforts to
teach another individual how to build an
explosive device. "He taught another person in Utah to build a bomb
with the intent to use the bomb,” explained U.S. Attorney for Utah John
Huber. If he is convicted in that case, Kurbanov faces an additional 40
years in prison.
Writing for KTVB.com, anchor
and reporter Kim Fields reminds Americans that Kurbanov "would have
gone through the federal screening process,” and that court testimony
indicates no red flags would have been raised "because there is no
indication Kurbanov was involved in terrorism when he first arrived in
the U.S.”
That would be the same vetting process Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes was sent out to promote with
regard to Syrian refugees. "There’s a very careful vetting process that
includes our intelligence community, our National Counterterrorism
Center, the Department of Homeland Security, he told “Meet the Press”
moderator Chuck Todd.
“So we can make sure we’re carefully screening anybody who comes to the United States.”
Apparently, FBI Director James Comey didn't get the proverbial memo. “We can only query against that which we have collected,” explained the man whose agency is now conducting nearly
1,000 domestic investigations against ISIS. "And so if someone has
never made a ripple in the pond in Syria in a way that would get their
identity or their interest reflected in our database, we can query our
database until the cows come home, but there will be nothing show up
because we have no record of them.” U.S. Citizenship and Immigration
Services' (USCIS) associate director for the Fraud Detection and
National Security Directorate Matthew Emrich was equally
"ill-informed,” asserting the
administration checked “everything that we are aware of” before falling
back on the pathetic excuse that “in many countries of the world from
which we have traditionally accepted refugees over the years the United
States government did not have extensive data holdings.” The same goes
for FBI Assistant Director Michael Steinbach who also admitted that in a
"failed state" like Syria, “all of the data sets — the police, the
intel services — that normally you would go to seek information don’t
exist.”
This is hardly a new problem. In 2013, ABC News reported several dozen suspected
terrorists were allowed to move to the United States after they claimed
“refugee” status, including two Iraqi al-Qaeda terrorists living in
Kentucky who had attacked American troops. The administration’s solution
to that problem? The State Department suspended processing Iraqi
refugees for all of six months.
Yet
Kurbanov’s case speaks to other issues as well. Even an air-tight
vetting process is completely useless when the filter of political
correctness cherished by progressives is added to the mix. The FBI
received multiple warnings
from Russia about Tamerlan Tsarnaev, resulting in a single interview of
the Boston Marathon bomber in 2011, after which they concluded he posed
no threat. The same Obama administration ignored
Even more ominously,
Kurbanov’s conviction speaks to the Obama administration’s disastrous
foreign policy. Despite the president’s utterly absurd assertions both
before and after the attack in Paris that ISIS is “contained,”
there is no denying the terror group is a recruiting machine. A U.N.
report released in April revealed the
number of recruits leaving their more than 100 different countries to
join ISIS had skyrocketed to more than 25,000. Moreover their latest
propaganda video shows images
of New York City spliced between clips of suicide bombers preparing for
attacks. A message flashing across the screen warns Americans that
what’s coming "will be far worse and more bitter” than the Paris
atrocity.
In other words, ISIS remains an
incredibly viable and attractive entity, not only to sleeper agents that
would undoubtedly be some percentage of the people this administration
wants to bring into America, but to the disaffected people who are already here. Disaffected
people exactly like Fazliddin Kurbanov and countless others who view
the administration’s flaccidly nonsensical approach to ISIS as proof
that the terror group is the stronger horse. Add the progressive
insanity that asserts anyone resisting Syrian immigration is a bigot,
xenophobe or Islamophobe to the mix, and it becomes clear this
administration and its adherents are willing to abide an "acceptable
level” of domestic terror to preserve political correctness.
In short progressives are terrorism’s willing accomplices.
On Thursday, it was revealed that two U.S. Customs and Border
Protection (CBP) officials alleged to Breitbart News that eight Syrian
illegals were arrested after they tried to enter Texas from Mexico. Another six Syrian men with stolen Greek passports were detained in Honduras. They too were on their way to the United States. President Obama has threatened to
veto a GOP-sponsored bill that would suspend Syrian and Iraqi refugee
emigration into the U.S. until key national security agencies can
certify they pose no security risk.
Former President George W. Bush once stated that "those who want to do
harm only have to be right one time, and we have to be right 100 percent
of the time.” Given the nation’s porous borders, coupled with the
president’s stance on Syrian refugees and his obdurate refusal to
confront ISIS in any meaningful way, it is time to ask the Obama
administration why they are so willing to tip the odds even further in ISIS’s favor.
Arnold Ahlert
Source: http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/260852/fazliddin-kurbanov-terrorist-refugee-arnold-ahlert
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