[Sabertooth]

Federal authorities in the Seattle area are holding a drilling Naval reservist, a non-U.S. citizen, suspected of having ties to Islamic radicals with known connections to al-Qaida.

Construction Mechanic 3rd Class Semi Osman, 32, was arrested May 17 at his home in Tacoma, Wash., on charges of illegally trying to become a U.S. citizen and possession of a handgun whose serial number was “obliterated or altered,” according to court documents....

The military services allow noncitizens to enlist. The active-duty Navy has 16,248 noncitizen members. Noncitizens are not allowed to hold certain ratings, including those that require security clearances. Statistics on how many noncitizens are in the Naval Reserve were not available.

This dummy should have waited.

In a July Fourth speech to troops in West Virginia, Bush announced that he had signed an executive order making it immediately possible for 15,000 soldiers to become citizens. All of those who qualify are already legal permanent residents.
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President Bush was about to make him a citizen anyway...

Construction Mechanic 3rd Class Semi Osman could have been a much more effective terrorist had he bided his time.

Hey, if Osman was arrested on suspicion if Al Qaeda involvement on May 17th, shouldn't the President have known about it when he offered immediate citizenship to immigrant service members?

Oops.

Bush speeds citizenship for military

Immigrants Serving Active Duty in Military Will Be Immediately Eligible for Citizenship

[Askel5]

Hey, if Osman was arrested on suspicion if Al Qaeda involvement on May 17th, shouldn't the President have known about it when he offered immediate citizenship to immigrant service members?

You ask way too many questions.

[christine]

great post! ;)

[umgud]

How many Muslims are in the US military and how will they react when (not if) we go to war or have hostilities against their fellow Muslims elsewhere in the world?

[aristeides]

Osman is only a reservist. I doubt if Bush's order would apply to him and give him citizenship.

On the other hand, if there are any noncitizen traitors serving on active duty, that order would have given them citizenship.

[Registered]

Wow!

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[Victoria Delsoul]

If that can be proven, Osman would likely be the first U.S. service member publicly linked to a terrorism group since Sept. 11.

Uh-oh.

[CJ Wolf]

We should make them wait and once they have fully served and shot the enemy down from positions placed by our actual military citizens. Then perhaps we should consider it, but only on a case by case basis and judged by their military and civilian peers. It should be something special not a wholesale bulk item.

[Snow Bunny]

Thank you Saber for the ping to this.

[Dante3]

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