Day: September 27, 2009

FBI attempting to confirm through DNA testing if Seattle Somali killed peacekeepers in Somalia

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I have a lot to say about this article, but no time to say it yet tonight.  Will follow up tomorrow, but here are the bare bones of this story from Seattle.  For background you might want to first read my post from Friday, here.

The FBI in Seattle is comparing DNA recovered from last week’s suicide bombing in Somalia with that of the man’s relatives, according to a federal law enforcement source familiar with the investigation.

FBI agents are investigating whether an American Somali refugee from Seattle was involved in the bombing on a peacekeeping base in Somalia that killed 21 people.

The father and mother of the Somali man have provided DNA samples to law enforcement officials, Abdirahman Warsame, a Somali-American who operates a Web site called the Terror Free Somalia Foundation, said today.

Warsame, 38, said he tracked down the father, Mohamud Mohamad, Thursday at a Rainier Valley business. The father spoke to him about the suspected death of his 18-year-old son, Omar, and his contacts with investigators, Warsame said.

The father is upset and “mourning the loss of his son,” while being embarrassed about the youth’s apparent connection to the bombing, said Warsame, an American Somali who came to the United States in 1996.

“He’s very sorry about the tragedy” and “ashamed of the whole thing,” Warsame said.

“Fake refugees!” Immigration fraud charges in Thai refugee camps, some claim UN workers involved

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We are resettling tens of thousands of Burmese refugees presently housed in UN run camps in Thailand.  Resettlement agencies in the US are quick to tell us that most are Karen or Chin Christians who fought in the democracy movement in Myanmar (aka Burma), but here is a story that confirms rumors we have been hearing.  Some refugees resettled in the US and elsewhere in the West are not who they claim to be.  One rumor I’ve heard from someone personally knowledgeable about the camps is that Muslims are mixing in with the Christians and moving to the head of the line.

This article apparently first published in the Irrawaddy earlier this month and republished in The Sail, tells us that rampant immigration fraud is occurring in camps.  Although the story does not mention Muslims (or Rohingya), it does tell us there are claims that UNHCR workers are involved in the fraud.

MAE SOT — Since 2005, when resettlement began, a network of brokers has evolved to assist individuals from Burma who wish to enter the refugee camps and resettle in a third country.

The black market business has helped many to escape Burma— but not always the people who fit the criteria and need resettlement the most.

Residents at the three main camps around Mae Sot, who are waiting for resettlement, blame the influx of “fake applicants” for the long delays they endure. Many claim that the “pseudo-refugees” leave the camps first, deferring the resettlement of real applicants

“I see many fake refugees coming into the camp. They pay the brokers and the camp authorities. Then they get resettled first,” said Bo Bo, a resident at Nu Po camp.

He explained how he came to the camp in a large group from Mon State where their land was stolen by Burmese government forces. As farmers, they had been stripped of their entire livelihood. So, with nothing left, they fled to the border.

“We have to wait longer because the brokers help the fake refugees into the camp and they leave first. It’s not fair on us, We remain in the camp with nothing while they continue to run their businesses, often returning to Myawaddy and Rangoon,” he said.

Is “substitution” occurring?  Do UN workers particpate in the fraud?

It has been alleged that the camp authorities are working in cahoots with the brokers and have become immersed in the corruption and fraud that has sprung up around the resettlement process. Residents claim that brokers pay the palat for their clients’ entrance to the camp, allowing people with no valid refugee claim to enter.

[….]

The issue of identity theft has been accepted by resettlement agencies, but people continue to speculate who and what has allowed this problem to occur.

“Substitution is a major problem,” explained a former UNHCR worker who wished to remain anonymous. “No one is sure who is behind it, but it’s very possible that some UNHCR staff members are involved—they have power in the camps and oversee what goes on.

“It’s hard to tackle because everyone is too scared to complain. People in the camps don’t know if they are complaining to the actual people who are involved in the corruption and are worried that everyone will find out,” she said.

[….]

The refugee and migrant worker communities in and around Mae Sot have long accused UNHCR staff of being involved in the broker network. There’s no evidence to prove it, but many say they know people who have paid staff to arrange resettlement.

Some time ago we had a comment from a refugee resettlement agency employee who said he/she had expressed surprise to learn that among the Burmese refugees his agency was resettling, some did not speak either the Karen or the Chin language and he asked his supervisors who they were.  He said the response he got was something along the lines of ‘don’t ask!’

Utah refugee murderer

And, I continue to wonder about the case in Utah (almost a year and a half ago, here) where a Burmese refugee brutally murdered a little Burmese Karen girl in his apartment complex.  I don’t know what happened with the case, but at the time someone reported to me that the murderer was known to the people in the building as someone who came to their camp and got to the head of the line for resettlement.

The West is raising Jihadists in immigrant populations

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I just came across this article on Drudge that you should see.  It is from the UK Telegraph and describes a “village” of Germans fighting with Pakistani and Afghani Jihadists against Western forces.  So, not only are we in America supplying young fighters—former refugees to whom we have given much—to Jihadi forces in Somalia, Europe too is supplying Muslims and Muslim converts to kill NATO soldiers.

The village, in Taliban-controlled Waziristan, is run by the notorious al-Qaeda-affiliated Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, which plots raids on Nato forces in Afghanistan.

A recruitment video presents life in the village as a desirable lifestyle choice with schools, hospitals, pharmacies and day care centres, all at a safe distance from the front.

In the video, the presenter, “Abu Adam”, the public face of the group in Germany, points his finger and asks: “Doesn’t it appeal to you? We warmly invite you to join us!”

According to German foreign ministry officials a growing number of German families, many of North African descent, have taken up the offer and travelled to Waziristan where supporters say converts make up some of the insurgents’ most dedicated fighters

The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, which has a foothold in several German cities, has capitalised on growing concern over the rising profile of German forces in Afghanistan.

Now it becomes clearer.  When the article mentions “white” jihadists, they don’t mean ethnic Germans or Swedes, they mean immigrants who had been given an opportunity for a good life in a Western country, but took what they could get (like military training as this article points out) and then have headed to the mountains to kill the infidels for Allah.

“The Europeans are there [in Waziristan]. The most dedicated people there are from Europe. They will do anything for Islam. They are not there because their father’s are Muslim, but by choice,” he (former Pakistani intelligence officer)said.

As I have pointed out previously in our extensive coverage of the Somali refugees who have left America to kill in Somalia, those strong healthy Somalis are alive and healthy thanks to the do-gooders who resettled them in the US.  We gave them food, shelter, a good education and have raised up Islamic militant warriors who would likely not have survived to adulthood if we had left them in Africa.   It just blows the whole theory that all Muslim immigrants want is a good life—a piece of the pie—and proves again something the Leftwing “humanitarians” are unwilling to grasp—Islam and Islamic supremacism is the driving force in their lives.

P.S.  We have resettled thousands of Uzbeks in the US.  It is unclear how many exactly because the State Department for many years lumped all former Soviet Union refugees together in their statistics.