Homeland Security Released Terror Operative Who Illegally Crossed Border (PJM Exclusive)
Two Bangladeshis who were caught by Customs and Border Protection illegally crossing the border in June 2010 admitted under questioning that they were members of a designated terrorist organization that signed on to a fatwa by Osama bin Laden pledging to wage war against Americans.
But amazingly, after one of the men requested asylum, he was released on bond. And now one Homeland Security official tells me, concerning the released terror operative, “We don’t have the slightest idea where he is now.”
The two men, Muhammad Nazmul Hasan and Mirza Muhammad Saifuddin, were intercepted near Naco, Arizona, not long after they had crossed the border on June 25, 2010. During their interrogation, one of the men admitted that they were members of Harakat-ul-Jihad-i-Islami Bangladesh (HuJI-B), which was designated a terrorist organization by the United States in February 2008. Earlier this month the group claimed responsibility for a bombing a courthouse in New Delhi. That attack killed 11 and wounded at least 45 others.
A 2006 State Department report described HuJI-B’s goals and connections to other terrorist groups, including al-Qaeda:
The goal of HUJI-B is to establish Islamic rule in Bangladesh. The group’s core membership consists primarily of Bangladeshi veterans of fighting the Soviets in Afghanistan. The Bangladeshi Government arrested a senior HUJI-B leader, Mufti Abdul Hannan, in October. HUJI-B has connections to the Pakistani militant groups Harakat ul-Jihad-I-Islami (HUJI) and Harakat ul-Mujahedin (HUM), which advocate similar objectives in Pakistan and Jammu and Kashmir. The leaders of HUJI-B and HUM both signed the February 1998 fatwa sponsored by Usama bin Ladin that declared American civilians to be legitimate targets for attack.
Capturing two terrorist operatives illegally crossing the border would appear to be a big win for the Border Patrol. But in a stunning move, one of the men was released on bond after claiming asylum.
A Homeland Security official I met with last week in Washington, D.C., who was familiar with the case says that no government agency is tasked with monitoring those that are released pending asylum hearings, and that the terror operative’s whereabouts now are unknown.
That this guy was allowed out on bond is criminal. We don’t have the slightest idea where he is now. If he sets off a car bomb in Tucson or Phoenix, or shoots up a shopping mall or elementary school somewhere, there will be a lot of finger-pointing. But nobody seems that concerned about it now. And this is not the first time something like this has happened.
Back in March I reported here exclusively at PJMedia on a Department of Justice memo submitted in a court case of Ahmed Muhammed Dhakane, who ran a human smuggling ring out of Brazil on behalf of the Somali Al-Shabaab terrorist organization. Dhakane was nearly granted asylum, but was eventually charged with lying about his terrorist associations based on his conversations with a jailhouse informant. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Dhakane’s case was representative of the surging wave of Somalis who have been intercepted crossing the border over the past two years. And now some officials are worried that the case of Hasan and Saifuddin might be the tip of the iceberg of extremist Bangladeshis who are leaving their country under pressure from authorities there cracking down on HuJI-B and setting up terror-support operations in the United States. And the preferred transit route into the U.S. appears to be illegally entering over the southern border — the route taken by the two Bangladeshi terror operatives.
Damn, PJM; Keep this up and you’ll be Drudges biggest competitor.
GO; GO; GO!
Today, he said, “hundreds of cable channels, blogs and other electronic media” have given wide dissemination to “every point of view, including the most extreme.” The result, according to Gates, though more democratic, “has fueled the coarsening and, I believe, the dumbing down of the national political dialogue.”
He described these two trends, along with some other factors, as polarizing the country at a time when the need is for “more bipartisanship, and more compromise to deal with our most serious problems.”
“That this guy was allowed out on bond is criminal. We don’t have the slightest idea where he is now. If he sets off a car bomb in Tucson or Phoenix, or shoots up a shopping mall or elementary school somewhere, there will be a lot of finger-pointing.”
Aw come on! That poor misunderstood terrorist only wants what every other noble, corageous illegal wants. You Right Wingers must understand by now that there are no bad illegals, only bad “nativists” and “zenophobes”. I’ve even heard several presidents hector you about the error of your ways in daring to suspect any noble, corageous illegal would be here for any reason than to pick tomatos, mow your lawn and maybe pop out a few anchor babies, just to seal the deal. I mean, if there were any *bad* illegals, the media would tell us all about them, right? Its not like the MSM is manicuring away and filtering your “news” just so you don’t come to the “wrong” conclusions or anything like that. The MSM is as trustworthy as Goebbels day planner, maybe more so. Stop beating up on these poor, innocent souls, heroes every single one.
I guess it won’t be long until you conservatives get the idea that you have the right to actually have some say so in the running of this country. Just sit back and let those who know best in ALL things run the country and bring us into their perfect vision of the future. Trust the media, they know best after all.
Yes, its all sarc.
The fact that you had to tell us that your comment was sarcasm is distressingly telling. IMHO even Orwell couldn’t have imagined the election of that fake Christian Obama as POTUS. Heads will roll for this idiocy. Not. The media will be all over this story. Not.
Even if it is SARC, why not empower “good” illegals to whistleblow or do bodily hamr to these bad (Islamic) illegals. If the Zetas had so much as 17 islamists in their 72-body pit in Tamaulipas, we would hail them as heroes. Now for the good illegal, I’m not talking free passage through Maricopa County, maybe a work permit and a comfy directors chair for the line wait at the US Embassy or Consulate in their home state.
Are these the same idiots who just searched my terminally ill and bedridden 81 year old mother before she was allowed to board a private airplane (apparently they thought she might have explosives in her wheelchair)?
Welcome to the Keystone Kop police state.
Now all we have to do is wait for their man-caused disaster before it is sloughed off as an isolated incident.
Another Religion of Peace member probably can found lurking among the large and growing tumor, er community, of peaceful Somalis living in Minnesota. Imam Keith Ellison probably is friends with somebody who knows for sure…
“But amazingly, after one of the men requested asylum, he was released on bond.”
Some individual made the decision to release this scum. Who actually made the decision? What is the name of the person who had him released?
Those are rhetorical questions Mr. Poole. I am pointing out that when things like this happen it is always a nameless, faceless, anonymous bureaucrat who made it happen. You can never pin the bastards down.
It seems likely that the Dems will lose in 2012. We must demand that whoever takes its place gets complete control of the border.
If Pajamas Media doesn’t quit scary the daylights out of me I am going to quit reading your articles. I would rather be kept in ignorant bliss like my friends that watch the evening news.
No, the two guys let out on bond were not criminals, they were unlawful combatants. You don’t release a combatant, lawful or unlawful, while the war is still going on. In fact, it used to be the case that unlawful combatants could be shot after a field grade military tribunal. Actually, that occurred to some German unlawful combatants during WW2 under similar circumstances; it was a speedy domestic trial and execution before they could do anything dastardly, or claim asylum to allegedly escape Nazi German. I blame this on the current politicians and the hippie dippy Supreme Court, that is to say, the lawyers who live in the world as they think it should be rather than world as it is: and ditto for the constitution–that document that now means whatever nine old farts says it means.
If he sets off a car bomb in Tucson or Phoenix, or shoots up a shopping mall or elementary school somewhere, there will be a lot of finger-pointing.
A lot of “finger-pointing?” No doubt followed by a number of job re-assignments and, if it’s really bad, a few low-level resignations (with benefits intact, of course).
How is it admitted members of terrorist organizations who cross the border illegally are even considered for asylum? Seems to me, all these guys should have been “entitled” to was a one-way ride back to their country of origin. Is it generally known among the terrorist set that to gain unfettered access to our country, they need only get here by hook or crook, request asylum and then disappear?
How much was the bond and who posted it?
If asylum is what they want then asylum it shall be . But first they will be sent to guantanamo untill the middle east actions are settled ,then they will be considered ,and then sent back home.Someone should push the action to who gave the ok to release these people and the press should report all of them and they should be FIRED WITHOUT ANY BENEFITS .
The system worked.
I think he lives in my neighborhood… a suburb of Phoenix. He is a single guy living in a family neighborhood and I see him out running all the time. I also woke up to some anti-jewish propaganda in my driveway last Saturday. I was shocked, it blamed Boooshh and the Jews for our soldiers dying in Iraq and Afganistan.
Man our govt is a cluster
i am shock from your conversation~!
Comrades Islamists, welcome to the Soviet Union of America !
Even the Soviets tried to kill Osama. Don’t blame them for their foresight!
Why these officials want to make USA the dustbin for the trash called the followers of that primitive religion based on satanic verses recieved by a looter ,murderer,rapist,slave tradeer,paedophile who promised the poor uncivilized bedouins an uninterrupted supply of wine,food and sex in the paradise of allah the moon god….
It is quite obvious that the purpose of Homeland Security is NOT the protection of America and Americans. By their words and actions, the purpose of Homeland Security and other government agencies, appears to be to protect and HELP Muslim terrorists.
Some time ago, Homeland Security made clear who they regard as the enemy and they are NOT Muslim terrorists. Homeland Security stated the people to watch out for were patriotic Americans: Tea Party attendees, returning American vets from the wars and pro-lifers.
The latest Homeland Security video characterizes white middle class Americans as the most likely terrorists.
Google: Concentration camps in America
The camps are NOT intended for Muslim terrorists. They are intended for patriotic, good Americans.
WAKE UP AMERICA!
Is anyone shocked?
Muslims have been buying fake Mexican id’s for years and crossing the border “searching for the American dream.” These guys didn’t even bother with the fake paperwork,they just hiked across the border like it was an adventure .Just like the other 30m illegals in our country.I’m sure 50% can claim some sort of asylum.
Try looking for him in Chicago .They sell thousands of fake drivers licenses on school campuses.They are made in China and imported regularly.
This article just blew my mind. I really hope they (CIA, FBI, NSA…anybody) did kill the guy and bury his body. I for one, would never hold it against them. But it’s totally scary because these are the people we are paying to protect us, and this shit happens!! WTF?? If the terrorist is dead, somebodys job should be on the line.
Get Bill O’Reilly on the phone!!
It seems they’re letting anybody run free if they’re a Muslim and savvy enough to claim “asylum.”
The UK and Europe made the same mistake, and are suffering the consequences now. Don’t lets do the same here.
HuJi-B? I should think it would be HuJIslam-Bang.
PERRY-CAIN 2012
BIDEN 2011
I often wonder who’s homeland the Department of Homeland Security is securing. Certainly not ours.
They want to destroy this country and they are on the right path to do it.
Congress – Napolitano and all her top deputies deserved to be fired, NOW!
Yep, they caught two of the many terrorists who crossed the border, and homeless insecurity releases one of the bad guys on bond. The guy beat feet and our “sleep well tonight; your government is at work” can’t find him. Good grief, the inmates are running the asylum. Dontcha just love holder, nappy poo, and the rest of the trolls raking in the big bucks, but like the toddler, don’t have a clue.
It’s absolutely insane that this man was released after claiming asylum.
I wouldn’t be surprised if these terrorists had hired a cartel guide to help them in their efforts of crossing the border and trying to evade the border patrol. How long until these folks will be carrying Fast and Furious weapons with them into the country?
When someone is released on bond doesn’t someone have to post bail?
Don’t worry folks. The moon god worshiping terrorist will show up with the other moon god worshiping terrorists murdering Americans soon enough. Muhammad, the slaver, murderer, and rapist, plus the false god of the Kaaba demands it.
Yea, I’m wayyyyy off base on this one. Check the bloody Mosques for weapons, C-4, and hate speech towards these United States.
Don’t forget to BZO, or Die!
This makes no sense to me. We need to keep track of these terrorists sneaking in over the border so we can finance their kids’ education.