The fecklessness of the Obama administrationâs despicable ârefugeeâ agenda can be personified. Last August a federal jury
convicted Uzbek refugee Fazliddin Kurbanov of three terror-related charges that included working to support a terrorist organization, and amassing explosive materials in his apartment in Boise, ID.
Kurbanov is a Russian-speaking truck driver originally from Uzbekistan who began his life as a Muslim. When his parents converted to Orthodox Christianity, the family was
subjected to government persecution and they fled to nearby Kazakhstan. In 2009 his parents came to the Unites States, followed shortly thereafter by Kurbanov, his wife and his son in August 2009.
According to court testimony, Kurbanov was a practicing Christian until he went to Denver in search of work in 2010. While there he met and took up residence with some fellow Uzbek men who were practicing Muslims. Kurbanov reconverted to Islam and returned to Boise. In 2011 he began making terror-related searches on the Internet. Two years later, federal agents searched his apartment where they found evidence that the former refugee was stockpiling explosive materials and communicating with the Taliban-linked Movement of Uzbekistan. According to the FBI, Kurbanov intend to launch a domestic bomb attack, with military bases and a park in Boise being cited as potential targets.
Kurbanovâs trial in Idaho lasted 20 days with a jury convicting him of three terror-related counts and acquitting him of two others. He faces 10 years in prison for the explosive device conviction and as much 15 years in jail for the other two. In addition, he faces another charge in Utah for distributing information related to explosives, destructive devices and weapons of mass destruction, arising from his efforts to teach another individual how to
build an explosive device. "He taught another person in Utah to build a bomb with the intent to use the bomb,â explained U.S. Attorney for Utah John Huber. If he is convicted in that case, Kurbanov faces an additional 40 years in prison.
Writing for
KTVB.com, anchor and reporter Kim Fields reminds Americans that Kurbanov "would have gone through the federal screening process,â and that court testimony indicates no red flags would have been raised "because there is no indication Kurbanov was involved in terrorism when he first arrived in the U.S.â
That would be the same vetting process Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes was sent out to
promote with regard to Syrian refugees. "Thereâs a very careful vetting process that includes our intelligence community, our National Counterterrorism Center, the Department of Homeland Security, he told âMeet the Pressâ moderator Chuck Todd.
âSo we can make sure weâre carefully screening anybody who comes to the United States.â
Apparently, FBI Director James Comey
didn't get the proverbial memo. âWe can only query against that which we have collected,â explained the man whose agency is now
conducting nearly 1,000 domestic investigations against ISIS. "And so if someone has never made a ripple in the pond in Syria in a way that would get their identity or their interest reflected in our database, we can query our database until the cows come home, but there will be nothing show up because we have no record of them.â U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services' (USCIS) associate director for the Fraud Detection and National Security Directorate Matthew Emrich was equally "ill-informed,â
asserting the administration checked âeverything that we are aware ofâ before falling back on the pathetic excuse that âin many countries of the world from which we have traditionally accepted refugees over the years the United States government did not have extensive data holdings.â The same goes for FBI Assistant Director Michael Steinbach who also admitted that in a "failed state" like Syria, âall of the data sets â the police, the intel services â that normally you would go to seek information donât exist.â