Posted on 08/16/2018 2:15:11 AM PDT by reaganaut1
Federal authorities said Wednesday they had arrested an Iraqi national and longtime member of Al Qaeda and the Islamic State who fled after killing an Iraqi police officer in 2014, eventually settling in Sacramento as a purported refugee.
The man, Omar Ameen, 45, is wanted on a murder charge in Iraq and appeared before a federal magistrate judge in Sacramento on Wednesday soon after his arrest, the Justice Department said in a statement. He is to be extradited and will face trial in his home country, prosecutors said.
Mr. Ameen has been a member of Al Qaeda in Iraq since at least 2004 and later joined the Islamic State — known as ISIS — prosecutors said, citing interviews with several witnesses. He is not known to have renounced his membership in either group, they say.
“It is common knowledge in Rawah, Iraq, that Ameen was a main local figure of AQI and ISIS,” a detention memorandum said.
Court documents say that on the night of June 22, 2014, a day after Rawah fell to ISIS, Mr. Ameen was one of several fighters who drove to the officer’s house in a rural area of town and opened fire. The officer, Ihsan Abdulhafiz Jasim, who had been a member of the Rawah Police Department, returned fire, the documents said. Then, when Mr. Jasim was on the ground, Mr. Ameen fired at him again, killing him, prosecutors said.
ISIS announced the killing on social media, court documents say, with a post that read: “[t]oday is the day to eliminate some rotten heads. Now in Rawah, the criminal Ihsan has been eliminated.”
Prosecutors also allege that Mr. Ameen’s family — he has more than a dozen siblings — had “supported and assisted the installation of Al Qaeda in Iraq” in Rawah
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Is Sacramento also a sanctuary city?
Gee won’t the next 40 years be grand? You are right, this is exponential. So why is the ummm leadership in this country giving them permission to be sanctuary cities? And we vote for this leadership that says America first, but who increases H1bs while turning a blind eye to the borderless country we really are? Um, no. Too impotent to build a wall or too incompetent.. or too complicit.
Oops....harboring ISIS fighters is the downside of being a Sanctuary City in a Sanctuary State. Let’s hope Jerry Brown won’t fight this dangerous killer’s extradition, as he does the deportation of illegal alien murderers.
All the more reason to beef up funding to ICE and Homeland Security, and, most importantly, repair the damage done by President Obama-mess (or is it Obama-nut or Obama-Jell-o)
Bet he wishes he would have gone to Sweden
He was arrested in Sacramento.....nice....how in hell did this Muslim killer get into the US?
More of the Halfrican's handiwork I presume.
Gee, that’s disheartening.... Just nudge me when the crap starts, I’ll be wide awake.
When Corker is out of the way, Senator Blackburn will vote like a lady to pass President Trump’s agenda.
ALL YOU PEOPLE WITH THE STRAWS, UP AGAINST THE WALL!
If today’s climate was 1945, there’d be dozens of SS officers seeking refuge here instead of South America!
things are so darn screwy here that you have enemy ISIS fighters seeking refuge in the USA and a major political party supports it 100%.
he was probably “turning his life around” here in the US, or so the liberals will say.
AQ in IRQ? Nah, can’t be. Nope, we invaded IRQ on a false premise, AQ WAS NOT in IRQ they said….
Guaranteed a boatload of them are already here thanks to Obama's vetters.
Oh gee.....looks like Obama let in a well known Al Qaeda terrorist. Shocker! I know, let’s admit as many middle eastern Muslims as possible. Just open the floodgates. What could go wrong?
And he came over as a Refugee via Turkey
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https://nypost.com/2018/08/16/refugee-accused-of-killing-cop-in-iraq-was-part-of-isis-us-officials/
and then there’s THESE totally useless maggots that came from who knows which gawd-forsaken hell-hole..
The overwhelming question, which you appear to be the first to ask.
Last night the ER of the hospital where my son works was quarantined for exposure to tuberculosis and possible Ebola contact. Can anyone doubt how these deadly diseases got here? ...and they are coming to our schools.
I propose we catalogue the address of every Democrap so we can send these medical / terrorist / financial enemies of the people to live at their houses. A pox upon the lot of them!
I’m surprised Jerry Brown, Kamala Harris, Gavin Newsom, Difi, Pelosi, et al. didn’t give the ISIS murderer sanctuary. In fact, any one of the Marxist Liberal politicians should have personally provided sanctuary to the ISIS murderer, don’t ya think?
Marxist Liberal Royalty don’t like to do as they say. They like to decree and demand what We The People, who they look down upon as Deplorables and Peons, should do and they exempt themselves.
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