Great.
“...who would then travel from Kenya to Cuba and, ultimately, to the United States, according to court documents. “
Someone explain to me exactly how that is even possible. Is not travel to and from Cuba one of the most tightly controlled routes in this hemisphere??
This does not make a lot of sense.
from where in VA?
UPDATE:
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MTEzOWE5NWUwZTE2MWMyY2RkOWQ2MmE2N2ExZmFhYjY
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
“Sneaking Somalis Across the Mexican Border”
[Mark Krikorian]
SNIPPET: “Smuggled in by a guy with connections to al-Shabaab. From the Examiner:
Authorities are searching for 270 Somalis believed to have entered the U.S. illegally with the help of a Virginia man who admitted contacts with an Islamic terrorist group.
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent said his agency had yet to locate any of the suspected illegal immigrants.”
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“Va. man accused of helping smuggle Somalis into U.S.”
By: FREEMAN KLOPOTT
Examiner Staff Writer
February 23, 2010
SNIPPET: “Authorities are searching for 270 Somalis believed to have entered the U.S. illegally with the help of a Virginia man who admitted contacts with an Islamic terrorist group.
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent said his agency had yet to locate any of the suspected illegal immigrants.
According to an affidavit filed in Alexandria’s federal court, Anthony Joseph Tracy told authorities that he came in contact with the Somali terrorist organization Al-Shabaab, which announced an alliance with al Qaeda earlier this year.
ICE Agent Thomas Eyre testified during a hearing that authorities are “concerned” about the 35-year-old’s dealings with the group.
In an e-mail, Tracy reportedly wrote, “i helped alot of somalis and most are good but there are some who are bad and i leave them to ALLAH,” the affidavit said.”
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Federal authorities have arrested a Virginia man for allegedly
helping hundreds of Somalis, possibly including ones with terrorist ties,
enter the United States illegally.
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Just helping out the Dubya and Obama administrations...
(Yes, I’m being a bit sarcastic)
UPDATE:
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/anthonyjtracy/index?tab=articles
http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/case_docs/1300.pdf
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http://www.investigativeproject.org/blog/2010/06/man-gets-probation-in-plot-to-smuggle-somalis
For The Record - The IPT Blog
“Man Gets Probation In Plot To Smuggle Somalis into U.S.”
by IPT News • Jun 15, 2010 at 4:03 pm
SNIPPET: “Anthony Joseph Tracy, who confessed to helping 272 Somalis travel illegally to the United States through Cuba last year, has been sentenced to 4 months in prison for his role in the scheme. With credit for time served, Tracy, who is thought to be cooperating with law enforcement, was released from jail June 4 and placed on probation.
Tracy said some of the individuals who approached him were associated with the terror organization al-Shabaab. Prosecutors said Tracy, (who converted to Islam while in prison during the 1990s) failed a lie-detector test when he denied helping members of that Al Qaeda-linked group.
Much of the court record in the case has been sealed or redacted. According to an affidavit filed in U.S. District Court February 5, Immigration and Customs Enforcement by (ICE) Special Agent Thomas Eyre, “Tracy stated that he knew that the final destination for the Somalis for whom he obtained visas was the United States, with the visas fraudulently obtained in Kenya being the first step in the process.”
Tracy, an informant for ICE and another unidentified federal agency, has admitted that after fraudulently obtaining the Cuban visas some of the Somalis traveled from Kenya to Dubai to Moscow to Cuba to South America with a goal of entering the United States. American officials have been unable to locate most of the Somalis involved in the fraud scheme and do not know if any have entered the country.”