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Saudi on Student Visa Was Arrested After ‘Threatening to Blow Up White House’
CNSNews.com | 12 MARCH 2012 | Edwin Mora

Posted on 03/12/2012 4:25:23 PM PDT by rdb3

Saudi on Student Visa Was Arrested After ‘Threatening to Blow Up White House’

By Edwin Mora
March 12, 2012

(CNSNews.com) - A Saudi Arabian national who entered the United States on a student visa was arrested in January after he threatened to blow up the White House, according to written and verbal testimony presented to Congress last week by two top officials of the Department of Homeland Security.

The revelation came in a hearing called on March 6 by the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Border and Maritime Security to examine why a Moroccan national, Amine El Khalifi, had been able to remain in the United States for 13 years after his tourist visa expired before he was arrested last month for allegedly attempting to commit a suicide bombing at the U.S. Capitol.

At the March 6 hearing, DHS tried to highlight some of its successes in tracking down dangerous aliens who have been let into the United States.

“In January 2012, for example,” said Peter Edge, DHS’s deputy associate director for Immigration and Customs Enforcement investigations, “ICE special agents from our Washington, D.C., office arrested a Saudi Arabian national who was admitted as an F-1 nonimmigrant student and violated the term and condition of his admission.

“The individual,” said Edge, “was referred for investigation after his status was terminated in SEVIS [Student and Exchange Visitor Information System] for failure to maintain student status as well as for possessing several indicators of national security concerns, including threatening to blow up the White House and the Saudi Arabian cultural mission to the United States.”

SEVIS is an Internet-based system created by DHS to house information about people who come to the United States on student visas.

The story Edge told was repeated in written testimony that Edge submitted to the subcommittee in conjunction with John Cohen, DHS’s deputy counter-terrorism coordinator.

“More recently in January 2012, ICE Special Agents from the Washington, D.C. office arrested a Saudi Arabian national who was admitted as an F-1 nonimmigrant student and violated the terms and conditions of his admission,” said Edge and Cohens’ written testimony. “The individual was referred for investigation after his status was terminated in SEVIS for failure to maintain student status, as well as for possessing several indicators of national security concerns, including threatening to blow up the White House and the Saudi Arabian Cultural Mission to the United States.”

CNSNEws.com asked ICE and the Department of Justice for additional information about the Saudi national who was arrested after “to blow up the White House,” as this testimony revealed. Where was he supposed to be studying? What was he supposed to be studying? How long had he been in the United States? Has he, or will he be, charged with any crime?

The Department of Justice referred CNSNews.com to ICE for answers, and ICE was unable to provide any by the time this story was posted.

No one on the congressional committee asked Edge or Cohen any follow-questions about the Saudi who had been arrested.

Hani Hanjour, one of the 9-11 hijackers, was a Saudi Arabian national admitted to the U.S. on a student visa, according to the report of the 9-11 Commission.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 0bama; 911commission; religionofpeace; religionofpieces; saudi; saudiarabia; whitehouse

1 posted on 03/12/2012 4:25:35 PM PDT by rdb3
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To: rdb3
When is Saudi Arabia going to apologies over this incident?
2 posted on 03/12/2012 4:27:25 PM PDT by mountainlion (I am voting for Sarah after getting screwed again by the DC Thugs.)
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To: rdb3

Reply self-removed


3 posted on 03/12/2012 4:27:29 PM PDT by Robe (Rome did not create a great empire by talking, they did it by killing all those who opposed them)
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To: mountainlion

When is Obama going to apologize to this guy..you know it’s coming


4 posted on 03/12/2012 4:29:47 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: rdb3

I don’t trust the DHS and I don’t trust Saudis with student visas.


5 posted on 03/12/2012 4:32:08 PM PDT by APatientMan (Pick a side)
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To: rdb3

Is this the same incident with the beat up pick up truck? If so no wonder the story just fell of the map.


6 posted on 03/12/2012 4:34:15 PM PDT by ColdOne (I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11)
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To: rdb3

Why would this mooslum wanna blow up another mooslum p-resident?


7 posted on 03/12/2012 4:34:52 PM PDT by max americana
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To: rdb3
Hell no. He may be an anti-American, racist, Marxist, asshat, but he is our anti-American, racist, Marxist, asshat. We will take care of him our way, ways that are clearly delineated in the Constitution. Besides, I don't want him martyred. I absolutely refuse to celebrate obama Day.
8 posted on 03/12/2012 4:34:58 PM PDT by goodwithagun (My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
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To: rdb3

Some gun toting Christians must have put him up to it. Homeland Security needs to look into it.


9 posted on 03/12/2012 4:35:06 PM PDT by pallis
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To: pallis
It's them dang Presbyterians, I tellya.

< / sarcasm >

10 posted on 03/12/2012 4:39:15 PM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: rdb3

What? This student has a problem with a Keyan-Indo Mosque?


11 posted on 03/12/2012 4:43:13 PM PDT by avacado
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To: rdb3
Obama hasn't bowed enough times apparently.
12 posted on 03/12/2012 4:52:29 PM PDT by Major Matt Mason (The Chicago Way isn't the American Way.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

Thanks rdb3.
The revelation came in a hearing called on March 6 by the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Border and Maritime Security to examine why a Moroccan national, Amine El Khalifi, had been able to remain in the United States for 13 years after his tourist visa expired before he was arrested last month for allegedly attempting to commit a suicide bombing at the U.S. Capitol.

13 posted on 03/12/2012 5:08:14 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him)
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To: max americana

He’d do it while the big O was on vacation. Pick a day, 50% chance of his being gone.


14 posted on 03/12/2012 5:12:51 PM PDT by irishtenor (Everything in moderation, however, too much whiskey is just enough... Mark Twain)
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To: rdb3

Under Bush, he allowed in more Muslims *after* 911 than in the previous two decades.

Why are we flooding our country with Muslims?


15 posted on 03/12/2012 5:15:42 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: rdb3

Arabs don’t think much of blacks, you know. They used to sell them.


16 posted on 03/12/2012 5:19:32 PM PDT by surely_you_jest (Mitt Romney is the latter day incarnation of Joe Isuzu.)
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To: rdb3

Let’s not be too hasty.... how many jobs would it create re-building?


17 posted on 03/12/2012 6:22:51 PM PDT by Feckless (I was trained by the US << This Tagline Censored by FR >> ain't that irOnic?)
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To: Feckless
I dunno. Zero doesn't know either.

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18 posted on 03/12/2012 7:48:38 PM PDT by rdb3 (><>The mouth is the exhaust pipe of the heart. (BEWARE OF THE LAMB!))
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