ISIS Insurgent got through America’s ‘extreme’ vetting process

[Yamcha]

Iraqi insurgent fighter allegedly lied about identity, got through 'extreme' vetting

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/03/08/lawmakers-probe-claim-doj-aided-iraqi-terror-suspect-days-before-november-election.html

Federal lawmakers are investigating how a former Iraqi insurgent fighter was able to lie about his identity and still get through America’s ‘extreme’ vetting process.

The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee has asked Attorney General Jeff Sessions to find out why the terror suspect’s pending arrest was allegedly spiked just over a week before the election. Trump had run on a tough-on-terror platform and had been critical of President Obama’s refugee policy.

“When [Joint Terrorism Task Force] and the U.S. Attorney’s office for the Western District of Texas sought to prosecute this refugee, the local law enforcement and prosecutors allegedly ‘met resistance’ from officials within the National Security Division’s Counter Terrorism section in Washington DC,” Committee chairman Ron Johnson, R-Wis., said in a March 6 letter to U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

“The ‘resistance’ allegedly occurred a few weeks before the 2016 election, and local authorities believed the lack of progress in this case was handled inadequately,” Johnson wrote.

The suspect is an Iraqi man who had entered the U.S. under a false name. His real name was not released.

Fox News has learned the JTTF confirmed through U.S. Special Forces who encountered the suspect during operations that he claimed to have participated in attacks against American troops as an insurgent.

At some point, the Iraqi entered the U.S. through the refugee program. His activities in the U.S. triggered an investigation by JTTF members, who planned to charge him with visa fraud while they investigated possible further charges.

Sources say the case demonstrates the challenge of vetting people with little documented history in countries where there’s no paper trail.

Officials from the U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S. attorney’s office in Western Texas and the Joint Terrorism Task Force refused comment.

U.S. officials said earlier this week that nearly a third of the FBI’S 1,000 ongoing domestic terrorism investigations involve those admitted to the U.S. as refugees.

Claude Arnold, a former U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement special agent in charge of Homeland Security Investigations, said the refugee program is vulnerable to abuse by terrorists seeking to enter the U.S. to harm Americans.

“Refugees are admitted to the U.S. based on the story they tell of persecution, and they are not required to produce identity documentation or other types of documentation,” Arnold said. “If the person seeking entry is a persecutor, he would have specificity in his story that matches information obtained by U.S. Customs and Immigration Services personnel adjudicating the events.”

In the case of terrorists in Iraq, ISIS has taken over whole cities, raising the likelihood of identity theft and document forging, Arnold said.

“That creates great potential for an ISIS fighter to assume a false identity and engineer a refugee claim,” he added.

[Howard]

Good update on the ISIS situation and the war on terror.

I have no doubt that we need to do everything reasonable and prudent to prevent terror attacks.
BUT, if some crazy bastard is willing to die for the cause, it's impossible to stop it 100% of the time.

For example, on 9/11 a group of Islamic extremists boarded US air planes for a suicide mission.
Armed only with box cutters, they took over the planes and crashed them into the twin towers and the pentagon.
Thanks to some brave men, one plane was taken back by the passengers and crashed landed in a field.
Thanks to increased airport security we have not suffered a similar suicide attack since.

That's because the crazy fuks, moved on and employed other paths for terror attacks.
Now, the proverbial "lone wolf" can shoot up a night club or run people over in a large truck.
AGAIN, these crazy fuks believe they are dying for the glory of GOD.
So, they welcome death as martyrs instead of fearing it, like most sane people .

If we want to defeat these wackos, what's the best method?

The first step is to do the one thing some well meaning people don't want to acknowledge.
We need to incorporate the decent, sane Arab and Muslim people into the fight against terror.

Unless you want to start WWIII and nuke entire countries, we need to bring Muslims into the fight.
ISIS doesn't reside in well marked military bases, so we can strike them.
They live amongst the population in apartments, next to schools and hospitals.
It's PR gold for ISIS if we bomb them, but injure some woman and children in the process.

The US military has the means to wipe out  ISIS , any day of the week.
BUT, in doing so we would also kill 1000's of innocent woman and children.
Since our morals and ethics won't allow that, we need to destroy them, the hard way.

The revised Trump exec order travel ban removed Iraq from the list.
Many military officials feel it's important to do that, because we've had many of Iraq's
soldiers serving as local translators. Plus, you can gain a lot more meaningful intelligence from people who grew up in the area.

I'm no fan of Islam or believe in some goofy multicultural  ideals.
But in any war, it's best to have some reliable allies fighting beside you.
The best ally is one that really knows the enemy.