(PJM Exclusive) DOJ Memo Confirms Terrorists Have Crossed the Border
A potentially explosive admission by federal prosecutors in the pending sentencing of Ahmed Muhammed Dhakane in a San Antonio federal courtroom could aid the case of border states looking to take the initiative to stem the flood of illegal immigrants coming into the U.S.
In this court filing, provided exclusively here at PJ Media, prosecutors admit that Dhakane, who ran a human smuggling ring based in Brazil for the Somali Al-Shabaab terrorist group, transported “violent jihadists” into the country. He stated that “he believed they would fight against the U.S. if the jihad moved from overseas locations to the U.S. mainland.” (p. 7)
The contents and implications of this admission by DOJ will be one of the items discussed when my colleagues Army Lt. Col Joseph Myers (ret.), Mark Hanna, and I will be testifying Wednesday before the Arizona House Military Affairs and Public Safety Committee on the topic of “Cross-border Terror Threats and Islamic Radicalization in Arizona.”
Dhakane was charged in March 2010 with lying about his terror ties when he applied for asylum in 2008, specifically omitting information that he had worked for two specially designated global terrorist entities (SDGT). He pleaded guilty earlier this year to lying to the FBI and awaits sentencing next month. Rather than trying him on terror charges, federal prosecutors are asking for terror enhancements on the sentence for lying to the FBI.
In the DOJ sentencing memorandum, federal prosecutors explain that Dhakane knowingly smuggled violent jihadists into the country:
More importantly, based on the Defendant’s recorded statements and admissions made to law enforcement agents, the Defendant was a former member, or at the very least, associated with [Al-Ittihad al-Islami] AIAI, an SDGT, and that he believed that there was no separation of personnel between AIAI, the Council of Islamic Courts, and Al-Shabbab, a designated [Foreign Terrorist Organization] FTO.
He admits that he knowingly believed he was smuggling violent jihadists into the United States with the full knowledge that if the decision was made by the SDGT, for which he was associated with in the past, to commit terrorist acts in the United States, these jihadists would commit violent acts in and against the United States. Because the law enforcement authorities are constantly trying to investigate, detect, and prevent the infiltration of potentially violent jihadists, the Defendant’s lies hid critical information from the United States authorities regarding his successful smuggling activities. Thus, the preponderance of the evidence proves that the other obvious motivation for him to lie on his asylum application was to cover up and obstruct the fact from United States authorities that he facilitated the smuggling of violent jihadists who are now present into the United States. (pp. 10-11)
This is far from the first time that Islamic terrorists are known to have attempted to enter the U.S, or actually succeeded. Just last year Homeland Security authorities put out an alert concerning a group of terror-tied Somalis who were attempting to enter the country through Mexico. Then last May another terror alert was issued for a known Al-Shabaab official, Mohamed Ali, who was suspected of trying to cross the border from Mexico. And in February 2010, a Virginia convert to Islam who was in contact with Al-Shabaab officials, Anthony Joseph Tracy, was charged for his role in an international smuggling ring that brought at least 200 Somalis into the U.S. on Cuban travel documents.
Other terrorist operatives are known to have successfully crossed the border:
- In February 2001, Mahmoud Kourani crossed the border from Tijuana in the trunk of a car, eventually settling in Dearborn, Michigan. Kourani, who federal prosecutors claimed had received training in weapons, intelligence, and spy craft in Iran, bribed a Mexican embassy official in Beirut to obtain a visa. Kourani’s brother is known to be Hezbollah’s security chief in southern Lebanon.
- In December 2002, Salim Boughader was arrested for smuggling 200 Lebanese, including Hezbollah operatives, across the border. Boughader had previously worked for Hezbollah’s Al-Manar TV satellite network.
- In July 2004, Farida Goolam Mohamed Ahmed was arrested at a Texas airport boarding a flight to New York. According to the Washington Post, she was connected to a Pakistani terrorist group. Believed to be ferrying instructions to U.S.-based al-Qaeda operatives, authorities issued a terror alert for Washington D.C., New York, and New Jersey.
- In January 2005, two Hamas operatives, Mahmoud Khalil and Ziad Saleh, were arrested as part of a criminal enterprise in Los Angeles. Both had entered the U.S. after paying a smuggler $10,000 each to take them across the border.
- Rep. John Culberson said in November 2005 that an Iraqi al-Qaeda operative on the terror watch list was captured living near the Mexico-Texas border.
During our testimony before the Arizona legislature on Wednesday, Lt. Col. Myers will be discussing the nexus between the South American drug cartels and Islamic terrorist organizations, including al-Qaeda. With cartel violence already spilling across the border, and U.S. Border Patrol agents armed with beanbags being gunned down in the field by smuggling operatives, when might we see terrorist groups attempting to open up a new front against the U.S. across the vast stretches of our unguarded border?
Today we will be discussing what states might be able to do to confront this problem in the absence of federal attention to the border and exactly who might be on our side of the border ready to help terrorist groups. As DOJ has admitted in the Dhakane case, terrorist operatives are already inside the U.S. and are prepared to go operational at the command of their leadership. If the issue of homegrown terrorism is already keeping Attorney General Eric Holder awake at night, why aren’t similar concerns being translated into action to defend Americans from cross-border terror threats?
Surely Obama’s carelessness on this issue is cause to impeach him. Obama’s hostility to a secure southern border is sufficient evidence of high misdemeanor. Here is the sufficient and necessary evidence to impeach. He cannot say that the truth is a surprise. All the Democrats can do is either admit the truth – the President does not care about the security of the people, or deny the truth. They can insist he cares. When the evidence presented by PJM today is contrasted to the tender care Obama has for the people of Libya it makes one thing clear: Obama does not care about the USA.
Copy that memo to Ruben Navarrette. This kind of puts paid to the BS about George Bush “protecting us from terrorism” half way around the world while leaving the borders wide open EVEN AFTER 9/11. Bush is a New World Order cretin as well as his successor. How many lives and billions were lost while we were lectured on Saddam Hussein and yet he too couldn’t give up his idea about a borderless one world order? All nations at war SECURE their borders except those with a HIDDEN AGENDA.
You are ever so right about the open border to the south! Harass my father getting on the plane, listen in on my phone calls and pour billions into war with a country that is no threat to us, nuke – chem – bio or harpoon, whatsoever and let any invader walk across the desert!? Que Lastima!?
Newt for President!
This was absolutely predicted during the primaries of ’07. The open border and a failed nation of Mexico would allow jihadists into the country. But the Leftist line was that Pubs are anti-immigrant. Because immigrants vote Dem and give Dems power thereby, they sold the country down the river and refused to seal the border. For power.
The money was long ago allocated to build a real fence. Bush dragged his feet on this, and Obama stopped it completely.
It was all predicted during the campaign. Publicly. By the candidates. In national debates. Fiery letters in the sky.
But the Pubs gave us McShamnesty, and the Dems gave us even worse.
Idjits.
agree!!!
this is a surprise to whom?
american libs hate america
jihadists hate america
libs and jihadists exhibit the maxim “enemy of my enemy is my friend”
But I thought according to Janet Napolitano, our southern border was completely secure? Say it ain’t so. The only good thing about any of this is at least the FBI and the CIA know about these people now and can, hopefully, roll up their operation. One can only hope, because I’m certainly NOT placing any faith in the words of Janet Napolitano.
Eric Holder has made it clear he will NOT prosecute “his” people.
And anyone showing any sign of surprise at this should be considered either incredibly naive or complicit.
Who could possibly have seen this coming? I thought we only allowed migrant farm workers, kitchen staff and construction crews across unprotected borders.
Mr. Poole wrote, “when might we see terrorist groups attempting to open up a new front against the U.S. across the vast stretches of our unguarded border?”
With a surfeit of Jihadis available that front might look like Baghdad. An occasional bomb going off in a mall or restaurant. If drugs can be smuggled into the US, so can explosives.
Ah… this was KNOWN in the 1990s by military intell and CI investigators at Fort Huachuca and at Davis-Monthan AFB. What’s the surprise now?
That the University of Arizona (located IN Tucson) had in 1997 very active Islamic student groups… with ties to Hamas, and al-Qa’ida among others. What, you didn’t know that either?
What is interesting is that some of the Mexican Drug cartels are getting armed and training by Islamic groups… Wait you say you did not know that either?
Do you know what “taqiyya” is? It’s the Islamic principle of lying for survival to enact jihad at a later date.
This looks like a perfect example. He lies, and he gets treated nice while being interrogated, and has a nice cell and accommodations.
Jihadi’s are trained for this, and also trained to resist torture. If he is an upper level jihadi, he might even be an instructor of these techniques. He may be allowed visitors in his cushy facility, and he is carrying on jihad as I write.
There’s no doubt we have jihadi’s coming in through our ‘front porch’ to Mexico. And this ‘administration’ is accommodating their entrance. But, with the ignorance and incompetence already displayed by this DOJ, are you really going to put much faith in their information?
“Keep your powder dry”.
With regard to: “… discussing what states might be able to do to confront this problem in the absence of federal attention … ”
The US Constitution says that States may not raise a standing army in times of peace. Given the Authorization for the Use of Force in Afghanistan and Iraq is essentially a declaration of war, couldn’t border states raise a standing army to defend their borders?
States may not raise an army or engage in war in times of peace OR UNLESS ACTUALLY INVADED (imminent threat). Our many pleas to the federal government to defend us from the ongoing invasion have gone unanswered, so our state government shave a duty to do what is necessary to defend their states.
I should think state guards (militias) under the command of the governors, as the National Guard once was, would be a logical step. Given the high rates of unemployment among our returning troops, it shouldn’t be too hard to get the required skill sets.
That was some of the problem with the volunteer “Minutemen militia on the border” They were ONLY OBSERVERS, if they dared to do anything, even self defense, they would be “made examples” by the regime.
They were dissolved in 2009 because of fears of this happening after one member sent a notice about “the need to be armed and ready.”
In the meantime, American citizens are being killed, and their property destroyed.
Hey, I know what, let’s just grant amnesty to the millions of illegal immigrants in our country. Problem solved!
And in response,Secretary Greaseballitano said……
“If the issue of homegrown terrorism is already keeping Attorney General Eric Holder awake at night, why aren’t similar concerns being translated into action to defend Americans from cross-border terror threats?”
Coins, man! It’s minting coins and right wing crackers that really scare Eric Holder. Not Muslim terrorism! What are you, some kind of anti-Muslim bigot?
“Coins, man! It’s minting coins and right wing crackers that really scare Eric Holder.”
OK, that’s plain outright funny right there. But next time how about a coffee-spew warning, please.
Good one.
That’s because one is perceived to be a genuine threat to the government, and the other serves the purpose of increasing the power of government. Which is which is left as an exercise to the readers.
http://www.house.gov/sites/members/tx10_mccaul/pdf/Investigaions-Border-Report.pdf
The issue isn’t anything new. Terrorists have been crossing the border for years…
A quote from the executive study from the congressional study (~2006) linked above:
In addition to the criminal activities and violence of the cartels on our Southwest border, there is an ever-present threat of terrorist infiltration over the Southwest border. Data indicates that there are hundreds of illegal aliens apprehended entering the United States
each year who are from countries known to support and sponsor terrorism.
• U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement investigations have revealed that aliens were smuggled from the Middle East to staging areas in Central and South America, before being smuggled illegally into the United States.
• Members of Hezbollah have already entered the United States across the
Southwest border.
• U.S. military and intelligence officials believe that Venezuela is emerging as a potential hub of terrorism in the Western Hemisphere. The Venezuelan government is issuing identity documents that could subsequently be used to obtain a U.S. visa and enter the country.
What the hell is the surprise? the DOJ is being led by the leader of the terrorist HOLDER, who is being led by his leader, OBAMA
yep, styrgwillidar, it ain’t new, ho hum, and if one of ‘em happens to zonk yer mamma, ho hum, mammas have been getting zonked for years.
I’ve been working on the ‘why attack Libya’ question and I think this article provides the answer. Libya is a distraction – a diversionary tactic, while the Barry admin concentrates on building up friendly forces on the US front.
d(^_^)b
http://libertyatstake.blogspot.com/
“Because the Only Good Progressive is a Failed Progressive”
Hey, not to worry. We may be in danger but the rebels in Libya are safe.
Mr. Obama’s contempt for the United States, our culture, our history and our unique exceptionalism have reached a level of treachery even I could not have anticipated…and I write books on international treachery.
G. Hugh Bodell
Truth is literally stranger than fiction?
Good work and go get ‘em.
As for Obama: forget about him – he’s a statue who arms and lips are articulated but can only be moved by being shamed by the entire world. We don’t have that many people here in the U.S. to control him.
I forgot one thing: you might want to point out that the U.S. taxpayer bill for the war on Islamic terrorism and litigation agitation comes to the billions and that if you add every other group, nation and culture in the world together it probably comes to 1 millionth of the cost.
Let’s start booking keeping ‘cultural relativism’ and see if receipts can be racist. I mentioned elsewhere that Rep. King was crazy to not pursue this avenue.
Just one small drop in the bucket: how many millions have been added to the cost of holding the Superbowl and from only one concern – Islam.
Keep ‘em out of the U.S. and the ‘moderate’ weeds they need to hide in. We don’t need that kind of useful ‘good’ people.
U$A: THIRD WORLD RISING – http://www.BorderInvasionPics.com
Sharia, DOJ, Border, Cuban Surprises!
We all just love surprises, no? Well, most people seem to even if I don’t although I have to admit some surprises can be entertaining.
For instance, it came as a total surprise that Muslim Sharia law can supersede the Constitution in America. At least that’s the case with Hillsborough Circuit Judge Richard Nielsen in Tampa, Florida.
Judge Nielsen was all verklempt over a lawsuit against a local mosque, the Islamic Education Center of Tampa so what else could he do but conclude, ”This case will proceed under Ecclesiastical Islamic Law” to determine whether the mosque followed Koranic law in a matter involving an Islamic scholar: http://bit.ly/gtALT4
The mosque attorney made more sense than the judge when he said, “The mosque believes wholeheartedly in the Koran and its teachings. They certainly follow Islamic law in connection with their spiritual endeavors. But with respect to secular endeavors, they believe Florida law should apply in Florida courts.”
Makes sense to me. I mean, Tampa isn’t London.
Equally surprising, and galling, was the decision by Eric Holder’s Department of Justice to deny justice in school bullying situations–an area of law for which we are still searching for federal constitutional authority–toward straight white people. President Obama and AG Holder have already, repeatedly, demonstrated an antipathy toward white Americans and now have furthered that discrimination by vowing to apply federal law selectively.
They will “enforce federal laws that protect students from discrimination and harassment at school because of their race, national origin, disability, religion, and sex, including harassment based on nonconformity with gender stereotypes.” http://bit.ly/dE2r6H
If you’re some poor, normal white kid being harrassed, pummeled, discriminated against, you’re SOL. If you’re black, yellow, Kenyan, Buddhist, gay, transgendered, the feds have your back.
Another surprise, at least to our present government, is that all those millions of illegal aliens–sorry, undocumented, poor people . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3948)
The real enemy of America, and the world is evil white Christian males. Don’t worry about foaming at the mouth moon god worshiping terrorists.
I wonder why the CEO of government motors, I mean GM, flew down south with DaOne, and his children on spring break? Could it be to open plants there with cheaper labor?
Just asking.
Whites are some 8% of the world’s population. White Christian males are probably what? 2-3%?
I would regard those numbers as qualifying whites, of the male Christian persuasion in particular, as an endangered minority. Given the discrimination, racism, and inequality of opportunity and justice whites are subjected to lately, an oppressed minority at that. Bordering on enslaved, I’d say.
Or maybe the Endangered Species Act could actually be useful, perhaps?
Well, if terrorists have crossed the border and plan to do something soon, Obama can kiss his presidency goodbye.
But think f it this way: while we sit here and argue for the umpteenth time about stories like this one, the new Republican leadership (Congressional majority and state governorship majority) have done absolutely nothing.
The southern border is no more secure than it was 6 months ago.
We have had no massive tax cuts.
We have had no massive spending cuts.
We have not seen PBS nor the FCC defunded.
We have not seen Obamacare repealed.
We have not seen the many (how many, exactly? Does anyone really know?) czars stripped of their power.
What exactly do we have to do, short of revolution like we’re watching in the Middle East, to get our representatives to do something?
Pubs only have the House, not the Senate. There is only so much they can do. They HAVE been doing what they can. Cutting THIS year’s budget by $2 bil/week is small in the overall picture, but it is still a lot of money. It will affect next year’s budget, too.
The money is already there for the border fence. Bush and Obama both refused to build it.
The Bush tax cuts got extended. It’s a good thing the Dems were too stupid to pursue that first.
NPR getting defunded. That’s a start.
ObamaCare defunding efforts in the House ongoing.
There is an awful lot to undo, and the House alone cannot do it alone. I just expect them to make real efforts to show we should support them in ’12. So far, i am not displeased, because my expectations are not unrealistic. To do what you desire requires BOTH chambers and the WH. Build up your resolve for ’12. The Pubs are doing what they realistically can.
Boehner doesn’t even want to try. Even the best of the newly-elected don’t seem to be proposing much good legislation. Even if they know they’re going to get shot down by the radical leftist senate they should at least be sending good reform bills to them every single day. Rand Paul gives a speech or press release or two and that’s as far as it goes. As the OP said, there should at least be separate bills to eliminate CPB, the unconstitutional National Socialist Health Care Perversion/ Obamacare/ HCERA/ PPACA, the Socialist Insecurity Abomination, Medicare, Medicaid, the National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities, to seriously cut the funding at HUD and HHS and the Dept. of Educationism.
Obviously, if the U.S. government cared about PROTECTING America, the government would protect our borders, not deliberately NEGLECT our borders ALLOWING in Muslim terrorists. America is bankrupt. We have no money to fight any wars. And certainly not the latest one. Our military is desperately needed here in America to protect our borders, NOT fighting in other countries.
One can only assume from the fact that U.S. leaders allow Muslim terrorist training camps in America, that our leaders LIKE, even LOVE Muslim terrorists. There are many Muslim terrorist camps in America. Google: Muslim terrorist training camps in America.
Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick and the Imam
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUYIHRRaPmA&feature=player_embedded
Muslim Terrorist Training Camps in America – Feb 16, 2009
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lr8FexoNO1M
Homegrown Jihad
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8_82YGXJe0&feature=player_embedded
Council on American-Islamic Relations: “Islam isn’t in America to be equal to any other faiths, but to become dominant. The Koran, the Muslim book of scripture, should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth.” – Omar Ahmad (CAIR co-founder).
Addressing a youth session at the 1999 Islamic Association for Palestine’s annual convention in Chicago, CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations) founder Omar Ahmad praised suicide bombers who “kill themselves for Islam,”
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52184
Global Jihad advances greatly, not because of cruel Islamo Fascists, but because of weak, pro-Islam, Western enabler leaders. U.S. Airport Security is Deliberately and Shockingly Destroyed for Islam:
http://www.worldnetdaily.com
Controversial Muslim group
gets VIP airport security tour
Feds show CAIR latest screening steps,
sensitive counterterrorism procedures
August 18, 2006
The Department of Homeland Security
took a Muslim group with known past ties to terror organizations on a VIP tour of security operations at the nation’s busiest airport at the same time British authorities were working to break up a plot to blow up U.S. airlines.
On June 21, a senior DHS official from Washington personally guided Muslim officials from the Council on American-Islamic Relations on a behind-the-scenes tour of Customs screening operations at O’Hare International Airport in response to CAIR complaints that Muslim travelers were being unfairly delayed as they entered the U.S. from abroad.
CAIR is a spin-off of the Islamic Association for Palestine, identified by two former FBI counterterrorism chiefs as a “front group” for the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas.
Several CAIR leaders have been convicted on terror-related charges.
During the airport tour, CAIR was taken on a walk through the point-of-entry, Customs stations, secondary screening and interview rooms. In addition, U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents were asked to describe for CAIR representatives various features of the high-risk passenger lookout system.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=51573
http://www.examiner.com
Report–Obama quietly appoints Muslim Brotherhood to key posts
February 15th, 2011
An ex-CIA agent and counter-intelligence expert has revealed in a special report that Barack Obama has quietly appointed individuals who are friendly to radical Islam to key posts within the Administration.
http://www.examiner.com/conservative-in-national/report-obama-quietly-appoints-muslim-brotherhood-to-key-posts
Appointing Muslim Brotherhood to key posts in the U.S. government is approval of, and aids and abets the Muslim Brotherhood goal of the destruction of America and the Free World and its replacement by a global Islamic state. And it’s all taking place without a single shot.
From the document of the Muslim Brotherhood in North America:
The process of settlement is a “Civilization-Jihadist Process” and all the word means. The
Ikhwan [Arabic for brothers] must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad to eliminate and destroy the Western civilization from within, and sabotage its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers, so that it is eliminated, and God’s religion is made victorious over all other religions.
It is a Muslim’s destiny to perform Jihad and work wherever he is and wherever he lands until the final hour comes, and there is no escape from that destiny…”
Some day we will have a leader who will show concern about undesirable illgalls entering our country. Yes our leader in between attending prayer and support the local muslim community efforts will work to keep those illegal Christian and Jews from entering the US of Islam.
OTM, baby, OTM!!!