Posted on 03/06/2010 12:36:28 AM PST by Cindy
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Somalian Charged with Making False Statements on Application for Asylum
Defendant is Accused of Making False Statements Concerning Participation in Terrorist Organizations
United States Attorney John E. Murphy announced that in San Antonio, a federal grand jury has indicted 24-year-old Ahmed Muhammed Dhakane, a citizen of Somalia, on two counts of making false statements under penalty of perjury to federal authorities concerning his association with global terrorist organizations.
The indictment, returned yesterday and unsealed this afternoon, alleges that on October 28, 2008, the defendant falsely omitted on an application for asylum that from a time prior to September 11, 2001, until January 2003, he was a member of, or was associated with, al-Barakat and Al-Ittihad Al-Islami (AIAI). Both organizations have been designated by the Department of Treasury pursuant to Executive Order 13224 as Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGT).
The indictment also alleges that the defendant provided additional false information concerning his entry into the United States. The defendant allegedly claimed to authorities that he and his wife traveled from Somalia to Mexico via Russia, Cuba, Costa Rica, and Guatemala. While in Mexico, they traveled by bus to the United States/Mexico border, where they were smuggled illegally into the United States. The indictment alleges that defendant failed to disclose to authorities that from June 2006 until March 2008, he resided in Brazil where he participated in, and later ran, a large-scale human smuggling enterprise knowing that such disclosure to authorities would prevent him from receiving asylum in the United States.
On March 28, 2008, Dhakane surrendered to U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents near Brownsville, Texas. He was being held in an Immigration Detention Facility located in Pearsall, Texas, when he allegedly made the false statements to federal authorities.
Upon conviction, Dhakane faces up to 10 years in federal prison per count.
This case was investigated by agents with the Joint Terrorism Task Force, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the U.S. Border Patrol, and the Department of Homeland Security. Assistant United States Attorney Mark Roomberg is prosecuting this case on behalf of the government.
An indictment is merely a charge and should not be considered as evidence of guilt. The defendant is presumed innocent until proven in guilty in a court of law.
Why? So they could pick lettuce for $50/hour?
“until January 2003, he was a member of, or was associated with, al-Barakat and Al-Ittihad Al-Islami”
How many have slipped through the net?
Making False Statements Concerning Participation in Terrorist OrganizationsThanks Cindy.
From our friends at NAFBPO, last week.
Thursday, 2/25/10
El Heraldo (Tegucigalpa, Honduras), Tiempo (San Pedro Sula, Honduras) 2/23/10
More smuggled Africans
On Monday afternoon at La Flecha, Honduras, a routine check of a passenger bus headed for the nearby border with Guatemala turned up 12 undocumented Africans from Sudan, Kenya and Eritrea. The Africans stated that they had arrived in Honduras by sea; one report stated that they had each paid $2,000 dollars for their travel to the U.S., where they aimed to enter illegally. One of the men added that they had travelled inside a container aboard an unknown ship. A Honduran female was arrested; she was believed to be their smuggler, and was also riding the same bus. (The photo below relates)
Wednesday, 2/24/10
Armada Nacional de Colombia (Bogota, Colombia) 2/23/10
Smuggled Africans found
Colombian Coast Guard personnel operating a “marine checkpoint” on the Gulf of Uraba found 14 Africans, all of them illegally in Colombia, aboard a motor vessel. The aliens, 13 men and a woman, are from Somalia and Eritrea; they had “the purpose of making their way to Central America.” (The Gulf of Uraba is immediately to the east of Panama, on Colombia’s northeast corner, on the Caribbean.)
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THE LATEST SCAM Third World govts are coaching its citizens to pour into the US. Some of these whiners are wealthy people, squatting on US soil, intent on draining the US treasury. These govt's create new classes of "Political Asylum" seekers.
THE RIPOFF UP CLOSE These govts know Social Security provides outrageous government financial aid to "Political Asylum Seekers." These people never paid a dime into the SS system; yet, they can collect seven years straight...... and can get extended payments if they are politically well-connected. The SS checks can amount to $1000 a month, and more. The category was created for those coming from eastern Europe and other Soviet satellite countries circa WW II....and they're STILL collecting.......connivers draining the US Treasury.
RIDING THE US GRAVY TRAIN An illegal alien w/ wife and five children violates our borders. He gets a job mowing loans for $5.00 or 6.00/hour. At that low wage, with six dependents, he pays no income tax, so each year, he files an Income Tax Return to get "EITC---earned income credit" of up to $3,200 scot-free.
He qualifies for Section 8 housing and subsidized rent. He qualifies for food stamps and no deductible, no co-pay free health care. His children get free school breakfasts and lunches. The kids qualify for monthly SSI checks by faking ADD; the illegal and his wife get SSI bu faking being aged, blind or disabled; SSI qualifies them for Medicare.
Plus illegals don't have to worry about pricey items like car insurance, life insurance, or homeowners insurance, and they qualify for relief from high energy bills.
ALL OF THAT IS COLLECTED WITH JUST ONE IDENTITY Evidence shows illegals establish several identities with phony SS nos and fake documents (which these "poor immigrants" buy from document brokers for several thousand dollars). All those phony identities vote, too.
Greedy illegals with their hands out---violate our borders, corrupt our laws----enjoy a perpetual free ride on the US gravy train. Illegals riding the US gravy train increase tax-paying, law abiding American families' state and federal taxes, homeowners and auto insurance, utilities and healthcare.
I think almost everyone has anecdotal evidence about their scams... I had roommates for one quarter in college who came from another country legally, but knew and used ALL the scams.
Same with our landlords in San Francisco. In their case it was hard to tell who was here legally because they’d purposely trick the feds, etc. by rotating first and last names. And since there were 15 of them living upstairs, they got away with it. We’d see all their social giveaway checks when the mail came (and sometimes got mixed up with ours). This was all back in the 70s and 80s in the city and Bay Area.
My mom would stand in line at the bank downtown and see recent “emigres” with bigger SSI checks than she or my father, having worked here their entire adult lives, will ever see in SS.
I became a bit bitter and “nationalistic” (die libs) then, since when my parents and grandparents and relatives came over in the 50s, they never took a dime. Never would have dreamed of it; they had pride. However, they slaved their whole lives only to have the 3rd world riff-raff get all their money??? And the only reason my family had to come over, was because far left-wing radical/Communist sympathizer FDR had given away their country to his good pal, one of the greatest mass murderers of all time.
Buncha con artists and parasites. The sense of entitlement these parasites have is atrocious.
American dream my Auny Tilly.
They come here to leech off the US and its people and are conniving to truck in the rest of the leeches.
http://www.investigativeproject.org/2716/prosecutors-somali-smuggled-jihadists-into-us
“Prosecutors: Somali Smuggled Jihadists into U.S.”
IPT News
March 25, 2011
SNIPPET: “A lucrative and active human smuggling ring brought an undetermined number of potential Somali jihadists into the United States through Brazil, federal prosecutors say in court papers.
Those prosecutors are asking a federal judge in San Antonio to give the maximum sentence to a Somali man who pleaded guilty in November to two counts of making false statements on a 2008 asylum application. Ahmed Muhammed Dhakane failed to report his connections to Al-Ittihad Al-Islami (AIAI) and al-Barakat, both specially designated terrorist organizations.
When he is sentenced April 28, prosecutors want U.S. District Judge Xavier Rodriguez to factor in a series of related and disturbing actions spelled out in this memorandum, including the human smuggling of potential terrorists. They intend to call several law enforcement witnesses and three people Dhakane smuggled into the country.
The smuggling was run through Brazil, aided by bribes paid to immigration authorities there, from June 2006 through March 2008. Dhakane instructed those he smuggled on how to make false asylum claims.”
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/doj-memo-confirms-terrorists-have-crossed-the-border-pjm-exclusive/
“(PJM Exclusive) DOJ Memo Confirms Terrorists Have Crossed the Border
PJM reveals a court filing showing that federal prosecutors have admitted a terror threat involving an Al-Shabaab human smuggler who claimed asylum.”
March 23, 2011 - by Patrick Poole
http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/case_docs/1193.pdf
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http://www.investigativeproject.org/2794/human-smuggling-case-evokes-south-america-terror
“Human Smuggling Case Evokes South America’s Terror-Linked History”
IPT News
April 26, 2011
SNIPPET: “A Somali man used Brazil as a staging ground to smuggle people, including members of a terrorist group into the United States, witnesses are expected to testify during a sentencing hearing Thursday in San Antonio.
Ahmed Mohammed Dhakane pleaded guilty in November to two counts of making false statements on his 2008 asylum application. He failed to disclose his terrorist affiliations and that he had acted as an alien smuggler.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/dhakane/index
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2528313/posts
Law Enforcement Fears Shabaab Infiltration
INVESTIGATIVE PROJECT.org - IPT News ^ | June 4, 2010 | n/a
Posted on June 5, 2010 1:07:16 AM PDT by Cindy
Note: Video included at link.
SNIPPET: “Now, law enforcement officials appear increasingly concerned Al-Shabaab members are trying to come back to America. But these members aren’t disenchanted young men like Hassan, seeking to escape the terrorists’ hold. Rather, the concern is that they are returning either to recruit more members or perhaps to plot attacks here.”
SNIPPET: “Al-Shabaab represents a “threat to the whole nation, all of the world,” Ahmed told the IPT. “Everywhere they could recruit somebody they will try – Europe, North America, Australia, Africa…And they want to disrupt world peace.”
Ahmed warned that Al-Shabaab’s main focus in recruiting Somali-American youths is not getting more soldiers to fight in Somalia’s civil war. Many of them do not speak Somali and know virtually nothing about Somalia, he said. Somali Americans have U.S. passports, though, making it possible for them to travel back and forth to the United States. He believes that some day, these kids will return to America in order to “harm us.””
(Excerpt) Read more at investigativeproject.org ...
http://www.investigativeproject.org/2805/somali-human-smuggler-sentenced-to-10-years
“Somali Human Smuggler Sentenced to 10 Years”
IPT News
April 29, 2011
SNIPPET: “SAN ANTONIO - A Somali man who knowingly smuggled people tied to a terrorist group into the United States received a 10-year prison sentence Thursday afternoon.
Ahmed Muhammed Dhakane pleaded guilty in November to two counts of making false statements on his 2008 application. On the application, Dhakane failed to report his connections to two terrorist organizations and that he ran a smuggling operation out of a hotel in Brazil which brought members of one of those terrorist groups into the U.S.
Mark Wagoner, an FBI special agent assigned to the San Antonio Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF), told the court Thursday that Dhakane provided the names of seven of his smuggling clients linked to the Somali-based terrorist organizations Al-Ittihad Al-Islami (AIAI), Council of Islamic Courts (CIC), and al-Shabaab.
Dhakane said that he believed that these people “would pick up arms against the U.S.” if the jihad moved from overseas to the U.S., Wagoner said.
While these individuals have been named, Dhakane was also involved in smuggling hundreds of individuals into the United States working for another well-known smuggler based out of São Paulo, who has since been arrested by Brazilian authorities. When Dhakane broke off to create his own operation, he recalled smuggling anywhere from 20 to 50 people.
The total number of people affiliated with terrorist groups whom Dhakane smuggled into the country isn’t known.”
Read more at: http://www.investigativeproject.org/2805/somali-human-smuggler-sentenced-to-10-years
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