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“BACK
DOOR JIHADISTS”
“The barbarians are at the gate,” says congressman
By de Andréa
February 16, 2015
February 16, 2015
ISIS fighters come from all over the world,
including Western Europe and America, with Tunisia leading the way in the
number of jihadists it has sent to the battlefields in Iraq and Syria.
A senior FBI official
has admitted the United States is finding it virtually impossible to screen out
terrorists that could be hiding among the thousands of Syrian “refugees” that Obama is soon bringing to American cities.
The U.S. simply does
not have the resources to stop ISIS in Syria from slipping into the country
through the State Department’s refugee-resettlement program, said Michael
Steinbach, deputy assistant director of the FBI’s counter terrorism unit.
Separating legitimate refugees from terrorists was
difficult enough in Iraq, where the U.S. had a large occupation force. Even
then, the U.S. government’s vetting process missed “dozens” of Iraqi jihadists
who slipped into the country posing as refugees and took up residence in
Kentucky, according to a November 2013 ABC News video
report. Watch it.
In Syria, the challenges are much greater. That’s why
Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, chairman of the House Homeland Security
Committee, held hearings this week on the
process of vetting refugees and sent a letter to the White House voicing the
committee’s “serious national security concerns.”
“We learned our
lessons with the Iraqi refugee population. We put in place a USIK-wide
background and vetting process that we found to be effective,” Steinbach told the committee Wednesday.
“The difference
is that in Iraq we were there on the ground collecting (information), so we had
databases to use,” he added. “The
concern is that in Syria, the lack of our footprint on the ground in Syria, the
databases won’t have the information we need. So it’s not that we have a lack
of a process, it’s that there is a lack the information.”
Separating the wheat from the tares
Rep. John Katko,
R-N.Y., asked Steinbach if he could suggest ways to go about getting this vital
background information that would separate legitimate refugees from those who
may be seeking to enter the U.S. to harm Americans.
“I just don’t
think you can go and get it,”
Steinbach said. “You’re talking about a country that’s a failed state, does not have
any infrastructure so to speak. So all the data sets, the police, the intel
services, that you would normally go to and seek that information, don’t
exist.”
“And that
obviously raises a grave concern of being able to do proper background checks
on individuals coming into the country?”
Katko asked.
“Yes,” Steinbach responded.
McCaul’s panel
sent a letter to the
Obama administration Jan. 28 saying they have “serious
national security concerns” about the U.S. State Department’s plans to accept
tens of thousands of Syrian refugees into the U.S. by the end of 2016.
The letter implored
the administration not to let the refugee resettlement program become a “backdoor
for jihadists” to enter the country.
The United States has
traditionally taken in the majority of the world’s displaced persons, but since
1980 the refugee program has been handled through the United Nations high
commissioner on refugees, who approves individuals for refugee status and then
assigns them to various host countries. The U.S. can reject any refugee
assigned by the U.N. if it discovers ties to terrorism during its vetting
process.
The four-year-old
Syrian civil war has created a humanitarian crisis, with 3.2 million Syrians
having fled their country. Most are staying in camps in Jordan, Lebanon and
Turkey.
The State Department
said in December it was processing more than 9,000 applications referred from
the United Nations, with tens of thousands more Syrians waiting in the U.N.
pipeline. Resettlement agencies have lobbied the White House and Congress to
allow up to 75,000 Syrians into the country as refugees over the next five
years.
“Would bringing
in Syrian refugees pose a greater risk to Americans?” asked McCaul.
“Yes, I’m
concerned,” said Steinbach. “We’ll have to go take a look at those lists and go
through all of those intelligence holdings and be very careful to try and
identify connections to foreign terrorist groups.”
And the door from
Syria swings both ways.
Not only are Syrians
with potentially deadly ties to terrorism coming into the U.S., but Americans
are going to Syria to fight for ISIS. Many are lured over the Internet or
encouraged by radicalized mosques in the U.S. to fly to the Middle East and
wage jihad. Once they receive military training they are a danger to return to
the United States.
Situation ‘out of control’
Another purpose of
McCaul’s hearings was to get a handle on the size of the ISIS fighting force
and how many Westerners have left their countries to fight for the terrorist
army, which has butchered Christians across Iraq and Syria.
More than 250
Americans are believed to have gone to fight for ISIS. That’s up from the
number Vice President Joe Biden gave just last fall, when he said about 100
Americans were fighting for ISIS.
“We don’t have it under control,” said Steinbach. “Absolutely, we’re doing the best we can. If
I were to say that we had it under control, then I would say I know of every
single individual traveling. I don’t. And I don’t know every person there and I
don’t know everyone coming back. So it’s not even close to being under
control.”
McCaul said the
American people want answers.
“You know the
American people have seen Americans, the American journalists, beheaded by the
ISIS executioner. It was a wake-up call for the United States,” McCaul said. “Kayla Mueller was just recently executed.”
“And the Jordanian pilot, in one of the most horrific
videos I’ve ever seen, in a very sophisticated Hollywood movie production
style, lit in flames,” he continued. “They’re
barbarians. And I think the barbarians are at the gate. We want to keep them
outside the gates of the United States. I’m concerned that some have already
returned.”
McCaul said the ISIS army is more than 50,000-men strong,
but an article by WND earlier this week cited an
Egyptian intelligence report that estimates the terrorist army could muster up
to 180,000 or more fighters if it called in allied forces from al-Qaida,
al-Shabab, al-Nusra and other like-minded Islamic groups.
What’s more troubling
is the number of foreign fighters flooding in from the West. ISIS is not a
nationalist movement with loyalties to any nation. Rather, it is an Islamic movement bent on
building up the caliphate declared by Caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
Under an Islamic
caliphate, the fighters swear allegiance to the caliph. Christians in the
caliphate have been forced to convert or die. Many of the Christian women have
been sold into slavery after being forced to watch the murder of their own
children.
More than 5,000 ISIS fighters hold Western passports
“We know that
foreign fighters have gone from 15,000 to 20,000. We know that more than 5,000
of these foreign fighters have Western passports that could get them entrance
into the United States,” McCaul
said. “… There are hundreds of Americans who have traveled to the region to
fight with ISIS. We know that some of them have returned, and that’s a
classified number. But my first question is, for those who have returned to the
United States, what assurances can you give the American people, and what are
we doing about it to make sure they do not attack in the United States?”
Nicholas Rasmussen,
director of the National Counter Terrorism Center, also testified Wednesday and
said the numbers are far from clear.
“We know what we
know, but that comes from a wide variety of sources and we have always assessed
that there is likely more information out there that we have not yet been able
to collect … And that is possible there are greater numbers of foreign fighters
and potentially even greater numbers of individuals from Western countries who
have traveled to the conflict zones.”
Steinbach agreed the
numbers could be much greater than the 250 or so Americans suspected of
fighting for ISIS, also called ISIL.
“I would not be
truthful if I told you we knew about all the returnees. We know what we know.
There is a number that we don’t know about,”
he told the committee. “The
ones we know about, that have returned from Syria and the conflict zone. …
Regardless of the intelligence that we started with, we build a case to
disrupt. … And we seek to determine the root cause of their travel, what they
did in Syria, and then ultimately if it was in support of a foreign terrorist
organization such as ISIL we look for prosecution or some other type of
disruption.”
McCaul said he does
not believe the U.S. has “sufficient human intelligence in Syria to
properly identify these individuals and hopefully the administration will move
forward to do that.”
THE BOTTOM LINE: In
other words, the real truth is, that our government is not in control at all when
it comes to whom or what comes into our country. Did you know that Obama took an oath to “defend this Nation from
enemies both foreign and domestic”?
Constitutionally the federal government is responsible for the security
of our nation against any type of foreign invasion? So why are we accepting Muslim jihadists by
the thousands under the cloche of refugees? Are these so-called refugees known
to be Christians? No…they are Muslims,
and Muslims are Jihadists whether or not they are terrorists.
The U.S. government
hasn’t got a clue…
If a person identified him/herself as a Nazi during WW 11
they would be classified as our enemy, then why if a person identifies
him/herself as a Muslim during this world war with Islam is not classified as
our enemy? Islam is just Nazism on
steroids. Can anyone answer that
question?
I’m not kidding! You
had better buy your prayer rug and halal food, Burka, and grow your scruffy
Oh! And don’t forget to fly your new ‘Islamic State Flag’…
Thanks for listening – de Andréa
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