Category: Africa

Al Shabaab capable of attacking inside the US

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In March of 2009, I sat in a Senate hearing room in Washington, DC and heard our supposed intelligence “experts” tell the Senate Homeland Security Committee that the Somali youths, former refugees to the US, who went back to Somalia for Jihadist terror training were there only to defend Somalia from African invaders, like the Ethiopians.  (Readers, we began following the news of the Somali missing youths, here in 2008.)

Senators Lieberman and Collins seemed relieved (giddy really) in March 2009 to hear the testimony from the “experts” that Al Shabaab had no capabilities outside of the Horn of Africa.  Even I could tell they were delusional then!

[Incidentally, these same Senators will be hearing how the Iraqi refugee terror suspects came to be in the US, here, next week.]

Now comes news, oops!, Al Shabaab has joined with Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula to become a threat to the West—mostly because of their ability to recruit Somali immigrants and others living in the West!  Hat tip:  Richard Falknor at Blue Ridge Forum.

From AEI Critical Threats (emphasis mine):

The terrorist threat to America from the Gulf of Aden is metastasizing as the most dangerous al Qaeda affiliate, Yemen-based al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), appears to be partnering with Somalia-based militant Islamist group al Shabaab in attacking the West.

On June 23, an American drone strike targeted two senior al Shabaab leaders in Qandal, outside the al Shabaab-controlled southern port city of Kismayo.[1] Somalia’s defense minister said on July 1 that U.S. military forces retrieved the two men; it is unclear whether they were killed in the strike.[2] The identities of the militants have not been released, but a senior American military official said that they had “direct ties” to Anwar al Awlaki, the Yemeni-American radical cleric who has been operational within AQAP.[3] The official added, “They were planning operations outside of Somalia.”[4] The reported links between Awlaki—whose primary focus has been on attacking the American homeland—and the al Shabaab leaders targeted in the strike suggest that AQAP and al Shabaab have established operational ties. Such an alliance would enable the two groups to leverage their joint resources, including AQAP’s bomb-making expertise and al Shabaab’s recruitment and hosting of militants from the West, to conduct spectacular attacks in the West.

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An AQAP-Shabaab partnership based on the proximity of their safe haven networks and a shared global militant Islamist ideology constitutes an increasingly complex and dangerous threat. The recent drone strike in Somalia may fortunately have disrupted any AQAP-Shabaab operational planning to attack the American homeland, albeit temporarily; the tasks of dismantling and defeating AQAP in Yemen and al Shabaab in Somalia merit a heightened sense of urgency.

For New Readers!  Stories like this one always bring new readers to RRW and you should know that the US State Department brings in thousands of Somalis every year as refugees.  Groups like Catholic Charities, the Hebrew Immigrant Aide Society, Church World Service and World Relief (among others) are paid with your tax dollars to resettle them in your towns.

We have admitted well over 100,000 Somali refugees to the US.   To check out the numbers visit this post, one of our most widely read posts over the last few years.   In FY2010 which ended September 30th the US State Department resettled 4,884 Somalis (here) to towns near you.  The “teen” would-be bomber in Oregon was one of the refugees.

Also, after being closed for nearly two years, the US State Department is on the verge (has been on the verge for months and months!)  of resuming the fraud-ridden family reunification program that admitted as many as 36,000 Somalis fraudulently to the US between 2003 and 2008.  See the latest on new regulations, here.

Now, also, Somalis are coming illegally across our borders and ironically asking for asylum because of the radical Islamic Jihadists (including Americans!) in Africa.

African immigrants bringing HIV to Malta

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In response to my post last night about HIV in the refugee population in the US, reader Charles sent us this story from the Earth Times about Malta.

Valletta, Malta – Half of the HIV cases being treated in Malta involve African immigrants, who make up just one per cent of the population, the island’s main newspaper revealed Sunday. New HIV-positive cases in the EU’s smallest state have quadrupled – from between seven and 10 cases a year to about 30 to 40 – in the past two to three years, coinciding with increases in the number of illegal immigrant landings, The Sunday Times reported.

The statistics are expected to continue fuelling the anti- immigration sentiment sweeping Malta.

Read it all.

New readers, type ‘Malta’ into our search function. We have dozens of posts about how the US State Department is bringing Malta’s illegal aliens to the US.

Rape case against French official crumbles; lies on asylum application partially responsible

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Update July 2:  Asylum seeker was a hooker, here.  I wonder how she got into the US in the first place?  New English Review has a story today too, here.  Case shows dark underbelly of African asylum seeking world, here.

Update:   Just received Debbie Schlussel’s much juicier post on this story, here.

You would have to be living under a rock not to have heard about the allegations back in May about the head of the International Monetary Fund’s arrest in New York City for supposedly raping a hotel maid from Guinea.

Now, today, the case is falling apart due to “discrepancies” in the maid’s story including lies she has admitted to making on an application for asylum.  So what else is new!

Should we expect the truth about rapes and persecutions in Africa?

If this woman hadn’t tried to go for the big bucks by claiming rape this time and thus generating a more thorough look at her sob story, she would surely have had her asylum application zip through the system and she would be on her way to American citizenship.  But, boo hoo, it looks like she could end up being deported (after serving some jail time).  She is also alleged to have been connected with an illegal drug ring.

Here is what the New York Times reported and below NBC tells us more of the story.   I bet if you went back to the NYT readers would find much gushing sympathy for the maid in previous accounts.

NYT:

Prosecutors disclosed that the woman had admitted lying in her application for asylum from Guinea; according to the letter, she “fabricated the statement with the assistance of a male who provided her with a cassette recording” that she memorized. She also said that her claim that she had been the victim of a gang rape in Guinea was also a lie.

The woman also acknowledged that she had misrepresented her income to qualify for her housing, and had declared a friend’s child — in addition to her own daughter — as a dependent on tax returns to increase her tax refund.

Wouldn’t you love to know who gave her the cassette recording with her story pre-recorded!  Was it someone with an NGO?  Maybe an asylum lawyer?

And, don’t you just wonder if they vary those tapes at least  a little bit for each of their ‘clients’ or does this woman’s story match closely scores of other asylum claims from Africa?

Now here is NBC’s version with more of the story:

The letter also discusses inconsistencies on the maid’s application for asylum from Guinea, where she is from. The lies, which were made under penalty of perjury, could expose her to federal charges.

In the asylum application, and to prosecutors, the maid claimed her family was persecuted and harassed by Guinea’s dictatorial regime, and that police and government soldiers had destroyed her home and beaten her and her husband.

She later admitted to prosecutors that the information was a lie, the letter said.

The letter also suggests that she falsely claimed to have been gang raped in Guinea.

While recounting that previous rape story to prosecutors, the maid cried and “appeared to be markedly distraught when recounting the incident.”

But in subsequent interviews, “she admitted that the gang rape had never occurred,” the letter said.

Readers the asylum system (part of the refugee program) is being widely abused.

In Sweden, evicted Somalis demand housing, money

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Just cleaning out my e-mails today and came across this old news (3 weeks ago) and a video clip of Somalis protesting in Sweden for more stuff.

A somali family in Sweden was evicted since they cant show any income. They mobilized other somalis in the small town of Katrineholm and marched to the welfare office. There they demand free housing, better playgrounds, more money, free immigration for all somalis, etc etc.

Don’t read about Angelina Jolie in Malta today (unless you are in the mood to barf)

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Malta, poor little Malta, being overrun by African economic migrants (thanks partly to Obama’s war on Libya and that wonderful Obama-supported Arab Spring) and now we have to stomach Jolie there pontificating about refugees.  Let them loose she says!

I was planning to do a few excerpts from this fawning story at the Times of Malta about Jolie—the UN’s traveling mouthpiece—but I simply can’t.  Go read it yourself.

She says the UN is careful to separate the economic (illegal alien) migrants from the truly persecuted (of course taking the migrants word for it!), but as far as I know I’ve never heard of the UN deporting anyone back to Africa after determining they are only looking for a job.

Use our search function for ‘Malta’ where we have dozens of posts about how the US State Department (and the Jesuits) magically turn Malta’s (Europe’s!) illegal aliens into refugees and then fly them off to your town.