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Title: 21 Terrorists Became U.S. Citizens
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NewsMax.com
URL Source: http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/8/30/112246.shtml
Published: Aug 30, 2005
Author: Carl Limbacher
Post Date: 2005-08-30 23:59:03 by OKCSubmariner
Keywords: Terrorists, Citizens, Became
Views: 87
Comments: 5
Two new reports released today by the Center for Immigration Studies examine the role of immigration control in our efforts to prevent further terrorist attacks on American soil. Both point to the profound security challenges posed by a federal government policy of mass immigration and lax enforcement of the law. The first paper, "Immigration and Terrorism: Moving Beyond the 9/11 Staff Report on Terrorist Travel," illustrates how 94 Islamist terrorists used the immigration system to infiltrate and embed in the United States. The author is Janice L. Kephart, counsel for the 9/11 Commission and an author of the Commission staff's report on terrorist travel. Other than the 9/11 hijackers included in the study, almost all of the terrorists examined have been indicted or convicted for their crimes. The report builds on prior work done by 9/11 Commission and the Center for Immigration Studies, providing more information than has been previously been made public. The report highlights the danger of our lax immigration system, not just in terms of who is allowed in, but also how terrorists, once in the country, used weaknesses in the system to remain here. It makes clear that strict enforcement of immigration law - at American consulates overseas, at ports of entry, and within the United States - must be an integral part of our efforts to prevent future attacks on U.S. soil. Among the findings: Of the 94 foreign-born terrorists who operated in the United States, the study found that about two-thirds (59) committed immigration fraud prior to or in conjunction with taking part in terrorist activity. Of the 59 terrorists who violated the law, many committed multiple immigration violations - 79 instances in all. Temporary visas were a common means of entering; 18 terrorists had student visas and another four had applications approved to study in the United States. At least 17 terrorists used a visitor visa - either tourist (B2) or business (B1). There were 11 instances of passport fraud and ten instances of visa fraud; in total, 34 individuals were charged with making false statements to immigration officials. In at least 13 instances, terrorists overstayed their temporary visas. In 17 instances, terrorists claimed to lack proper travel documents and applied for asylum, often at a port of entry. Fraud was used not only to gain entry into the United States, but also to remain, or "embed," in the country. Seven terrorists were indicted for acquiring or using various forms of fake identification, including driver's licenses, birth certificates, Social Security cards, and immigration arrival records. Once in the United States, 23 terrorists became legal permanent residents, often by marrying an American. There were at least nine sham marriages. In total, 21 foreign terrorists became naturalized U.S. citizens. The second paper is "Keeping Extremists Out: The History of Ideological Exclusion, and the Need for Its Revival," by James R. Edwards, Jr., an Adjunct Fellow at the Hudson Institute and Principal at Olive, Edwards, & Brinkmann, L.L.C. This paper describes the contribution immigration law has made and can make again in barring and removing ideological enemies from our shores. America has often faced the threat of foreigners promoting radical ideologies, including Jacobinism, anarchism, communism, fascism, and now Islamism. It is an unavoidable consequence of mass immigration; the higher the level of immigration, the more likely it is that individuals espousing hatred and violence toward America will gain entry. But whatever the level of immigration, excluding or removing noncitizens from the United States based on their promotion of radical beliefs ("ideological exclusion") can help to protect the country. Historically such efforts have played this role, especially during the 20th century. With the end of the Cold War, Congress effectively repealed ideological exclusion, meaning that only active terrorists on watch lists could be barred, while those promoting the ideologies of such terrorists would have to be admitted. To end this vulnerability, Dr. Edwards argues that ideological exclusion should be restored, allowing aliens to be excluded or deported not only for overt acts but also for radical affiliations or advocacy. Such grounds for exclusion and removal should be based on characteristics common to the many varieties of extremism, rather than target a specific ideology.
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#1. To: Critter, christine, Arator, FormerLurker, Neil McIVer, TommyTheMadArtist, tom007, Uncle Bill, who knows what evil, Red Jones, robin, Zipporah, swarthyguy, honway, Sparker, Fred Mertz, MUDDOG, lodwick, itisa1mosttoolate, Don (#0)
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Frankly, I am more concerned with the home grown terrorists, they are much more deadly.
God is always good! Um.... Where the fuck do you get that idea? Let me think. OKC was what? 300 or so dead, where as 9-11, was nearly 4000. Yeah, the homegrown ones are really all that more deadly. Now, if you mean the ones who will carry out the next 9-11, then you might be on to something.
#2. To: OKCSubmariner (#0)
In total, 21 foreign terrorists became naturalized U.S. citizens.
"It was an interesting day." - President Bush, recalling 9/11 [White House, 1/5/02]
#3. To: RickyJ (#2)
 | So many morons, so few bullets. |
#4. To: OKCSubmariner (#1)
The problem is that the US's Islamocentric strategy during the length of the ColdWar, from securing Saudi oil to the Baghdad Pact to the Soviet Jihad involved extensive interaction, cooperation and encouragement of those very ideologies and organizations, like the Muslim Brotherhood(Ikhwanis) of Egypt( the forerunner of today's Islamic Insurgency) who the Saudis protected with US connivance and encouragement when Nasser went after them has created a weblike tapestry of interconnections, witness the Bush/binLadin/MahFouz/AlQadi relationships, that, combined with Bush's hands off policy on the Saudis and Pakistanis, has created a situation where the Left, hamstrung and paralyzed by PC notions, and the Right, exemplified by Bush, will tolerate almost anything the Saudis do, causing Americans to be playing whack a mole with jihadis at a low to mid level, while at the high level, hands are held, to say the least. The story Ali Mohammad demonstrates perfectly the paradoxes, contradictions, foggy wilderness of mirrors aspect of Uncle Sam's relationship with the Sheikhs and Leaders of Araby. But, just twentyone? Wow, thought it'd be more than that ; well, makes sense, since the ones we allowed in during the 80's and 90'sweren't terrorists just because they were blowing up girls schools and tossing in women's faces; they were doing it for truth, justice, democracy and the American way. Now, well, they do it to us. We should take it as a tribute that the training the US provided to jihadis was internalized and used so well. And so it goes.
#5. To: OKCSubmariner (#1)
http://www.msnbc.com/news/881821.asp (NOW MISSING) The hunt for Iraqi 'sleeper cells' Why not just ask Daddy Bush And Clinton? WASHINGTON, March 6 — The FBI is conducting an intensive hunt for potential “sleeper cells” of Iraqi agents planted to strike in the event of war after two attachés at Iraq’s U.N. mission in New York were caught filming bridges and tunnels, U.S. officials told NBC News. At least 70 Iraqi nationals are under active surveillance, law enforcement officials said, and agents have spread out to interview thousands of Iraqi men in an attempt to track down hundreds who came to the United States after the 1991 Gulf War and disappeared. (Complete Story Here) msnbc Oh, you mean these Iraqis? (08/25/93) Nearly 1,000 Iraqi soldiers captured by U.S. forces during the 1991 Persian Gulf War have been resettled at public expense in cities across the United States. They are among nearly 3,000 Iraqi refugees -- the majority of them civilians -- who have been resettled in the United States from internment camps in Saudi Arabia... ...More than 80 members of Congress have asked President Clinton to end what they called the "potentially dangerous and unfair policy" of resettling captured Iraqi soldiers in the United States along with deserving civilian Iraqi refugees 
The mind once expanded by a new idea never returns to its' original size
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