Chechen Asylee connected to the Tsarnaevs killed (in self defense) by FBI in Florida

Another one of the “few” Chechens in the US is now dead after attacking an FBI agent with a knife.  For new readers, we have been told that the US Chechen asylum ‘community’ is small, but they sure are busy pleasing Allah.

Muslim mugshot: Another charming Chechen.

To get some key details of the breaking news, one has to read a couple of reports on what happened in Florida earlier today when a friend of the Tsarnaevs, Ibragim Todashev, was killed in the process of being questioned in the gruesome deaths of three Boston Jewish young men on the tenth anniversary of 9/11.  We reported on the ritualistic murder here just a few days ago.  The men had their throats slit.

The New York Times confirms he was being investigated for the murder of the Jewish men.

“The investigators were working on the theory that he and Tamerlan,” had played a role in the murder, said the official, referring to Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the deceased marathon bombing suspect. One of the victims was a friend of Mr. Tsarnaev.

But, of course the NYT cannot bring itself to utter the ‘R’ word or the ‘A’ word, so we learn from CNN that Todashev was a political refugee—we gave him asylum just as we had given the Tsarnaevs protection and their friend in Manchester, NH as well!

CNN confirms here that Ibragim Todashev was granted asylum in the US in 2008 AFTER BEING HERE FOR SOME TIME ALREADY!

Todashev was from the Chechnya region, as were the Tsarnaev brothers, the source said.

Todashev was granted political asylum in 2008 but that he came to the US some time before that, a federal law enforcement official told CNN. Todashev has living in the US as a legal resident because of that aslyum claim, the official said.

Readers, Todashev, like most other “asylum seekers” was first an ILLEGAL ALIEN.  Under present law he had one year to apply for asylum after getting his feet on American soil, but if S. 744, as passed by the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday, becomes law he will have two years to hang around before applying for asylum, while living off the good will of the American people!

Hey, here is an idea!  Maybe Mark Hetfield of the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society should invite these Chechens to his neighborhood!

And, one more thing!  Everyone is focused on the three other major scandals facing the Obama Administration but the failure of the Department of Homeland Security to identify Muslim terrorists in our midst, is to me the most damning of the FOUR scandals (or five if you count Fast & Furious).  Here is one more bit from the NYT:

The F.B.I. has also focused on Chechens who may have ties to extremists in Russia. Before the attacks, the bureau had not thought that they were a significant threat in the United States.

About the photo, both CNN and the NYT used this mugshot of the now dead Muslim, but the NYT only uses his name as the caption while CNN tells us this: “Ibragim Todashev, shown in a mug shot after his arrest on an aggravated battery charge this month.”

Addendum: No time to say more now, but please visit Blue Ridge Forum today about the mega-mosque being built in Maryland with Turkish government money (and the approval of Gov. Martin O’Malley).

(New film) Return of the Primitive: Refugee Resettlement in America

That’s the title of an 18 minute documentary from ‘Indomitable realist’ you should watch.  I think it’s just out today.   Hat tip: Brad

It features Somalis in Minnesota, Lewiston, ME, and Shelbyville, TN.  It includes one segment on the Lost Boys of Sudan. I didn’t know Glenn Beck talked about the State Department populating Rep. Michele Bachmann’s district with Somalis (something we have written about here on several occasions).

Click here to watch.  Then be sure to check out the comments!

Palestinian alleged terror-funders arrested in Maryland

Editors note:  This is cross-posted from my other blog, Potomac Tea Party Report.  We don’t know how these Palestinians got into the US (the mainstream media is rarely curious about that), but readers here at RRW should know that we (US State Department and refugee contractors) are now taking some Palestinian “refugees” to your towns and cities (101 so far this fiscal year).  And, sheesh, I thought that this morning I could get back to my posting backlog of more mundane issues such as the State Department hearing this past week, but these Muslim terrorist stories keep breaking like the waves on Ocean City beaches!

Thanks to Jeff, here is a mind-blowing story in the Baltimore Sun on Friday about the arrest of a pair of Palestinians who have been running a multi-million dollar cigarette smuggling scam for years.  Because they lived a modest lifestyle and no one knows where all the money went, it’s a good bet it was leaving the country to fund Islamic terrorists around the world (or maybe funding them right here at home!).

We need to thank the NYPD and Commissioner Ray Kelly who unraveled the scheme from the New York end.  In Maryland our police are way too busy swatting benign conservative Americans like Terry Porter in rural towns.

And, as is the usual case, there is no mention of the brothers’ immigration status—how did they come to be living legally in America in the first place (assuming they were legal immigrants)?*

From the Baltimore Sun:

The Palestinian immigrant and his brother lived next door to each other in homes in West Ocean City, over the years opening a number of businesses throughout the area — three pizza shops, a Mexican restaurant, a liquor store, gas stations, and development companies, court records show.

This week, however, authorities in New York alleged that Basel, 42, and Samir Ramadan, 39, were also at the top of a multimillion-dollar cigarette-smuggling ring and said they believe members of the organization may have funneled some of their proceeds to terrorist groups. [Update: Photos of the Palestinian alleged terror funders are here---ed]

New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman and New York Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly said the Ramadan brothers had deposited more than $55 million from their untaxed cigarette sales into small banks in and around Ocean City, making a profit of $10 million along the way.

[.....]

Only a fraction of the money has been recovered, and the brothers’ lifestyles were described by authorities as modest. That, along with alleged links among some of the members of the ring to known terrorists such as Omar Abdel-Rahman, the blind cleric serving a life sentence for a conspiracy to blow up New York City landmarks, raised concerns that the money might be funding militant groups.

There is a lot more!  Read it all!

LOL! Someone should check to see if they were political donors to O’Malley and the boys!

Just for your information, we write often about food stamp fraud (trafficking) busts here at Refugee Resettlement Watch (archive here).  The majority of the scams are coming from immigrant-run convenience stores.

* We don’t resettle very many Palestinian refugees (a few in recent years) mostly because the militant Islamists in the Middle East want to leave them right there in their supposed “camps” funded largely by US taxpayers so as to remain a thorn in Israel’s side.  I don’t know how these Palestinians got into America legally.   I do think the food stamp scammers are using the Investor visas we give out like pez candy.

It is confirmed! Idaho Uzbek arrested on terror charges is a refugee

This is an update of my post this morning where I only surmised that Boise’s Uzbek terror suspect is a refugee.

In the case of Boston’s Tsarnaevs, they came here seeking political asylum and in Fazliddin Kurbanov’s case we actually brought him to America.  The refugee resettlement program and our asylum program are basically two sides of the same coin.  We “welcomed” both to America.   But, one thing the resettlement contractors can’t seem to grasp is that with most Muslims their Jihad imperative trumps the American ‘good life’ and it’s just a matter of time before Allah calls.

Are we seeing the beginning of a trend?  I suspect we will see other young bucks seeking fame and martyrdom having been emboldened by the Tsarnaev’s ‘success.’

Fazliddin Kurbanov, your friendly refugee next door!

AP confirms Kurbanov’s  immigration status here at USA Today:

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — He was a Russian-speaking truck driver who came to Idaho in 2009 to join hundreds of other Uzbekistan refugees for whom the state has become a sanctuary from violence in their home country.

But federal officials say in an indictment that Fazliddin Kurbanov also was teaching people to build bombs that would target public transportation.

It’s unclear whether those alleged targets were domestic or abroad — or how far Kurbanov would have gone. Prosecutors said Friday only that they believe he is no longer a threat.

[....]

Kurbanov is among about 650 Uzbeks living in Idaho. He was admitted to the U.S. as a refugee in August 2009, the same month he moved to Boise, said Jan Reeves, director of the Idaho Office for Refugees, citing immigration records. Kurbanov was here legally, federal officials said.

He didn’t just move to Boise!  A federal refugee contractor, possibly Boise’s office of the International Rescue Committee, was paid by the US State Department (paid by you!) to get him hooked up with social services, find him an apartment and get him a job.

Uzbeks began coming to Idaho’s two refugee settlement centers, in Boise and Twin Falls, in 2003, Reeves said. The centers connect refugees with services such as language classes and help finding work.

The flow of Uzbeks to the state escalated around 2005, when a violent clash between protesters and the government left hundreds dead.  [We took in the troublemakers in a special airlift! Now we are reuniting families in sanctuary cities like Boise---ed]

[....]

About 90 percent of Uzbeks in their home country are Muslim. Representatives of the Islamic Center of Boise, a meeting area for the region’s Muslim community, didn’t immediately return a phone call Friday.

Radical Uzbeks have a broader mission now!  Don’t they all!

Although the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan started in the 1990s with the stated aim of overthrowing the Uzbek regime and establishing an Islamic government, its goals have expanded to create a broader Islamic influence in Central Asia.

There is more, read it all.

Minneapolis: Sentencing began yesterday for Somali terrorists; are they still lying?

I told you yesterday that sentencing was about to commence for the refugees who went back to Somalia to join al-Shabab, the al-Qaida affiliate in East Africa.   I hadn’t planned to write anymore about it, partly because I am sick of it!  We gave these people the ‘good life’ at great expense to the US taxpayer and they threw it back in our faces.  But, this part of a long story on the sentencing from the Twin Cities Pioneer Press (hat tip: Cliff) was worth mentioning.

Kamal Said Hassan

The Judge wonders whether this Somali, Kamal Said Hassan, might still be lying:

Each man told Davis his story, and the judge seemed to react differently to each. In the case of Hassan, the judge acknowledged that while the defendant had been an “extraordinary” help to investigators since his arrest, he didn’t know if the words he was hearing were a performance.

“I can’t take back what I did, but I can show you, the government, the Somali community, that I can do better,” Hassan told the judge.

“I know what I did was wrong and illegal and I take full responsibility for my actions,” he said. “I’m sorry to the ones I hurt.”

He apologized to his family, his adopted homeland and his fellow Somali immigrants.

“I want the American people to know I am very sorry for what I did,” he said.

When he finished speaking, Davis paused for several moments.

Finally, he spoke. “I heard a lot of sorrys,” the judge said. “And as you well know, I grilled you on the witness stand when you testified (against Omar). Your talk here has reared that ugly head, in my mind … where we have people who are very, very bright and can be very, very dangerous.”

The judge noted Hassan had been deceitful to his own family and had even not been fully truthful with the FBI when they questioned him; prosecutors even added a charge of making false statements to his two counts of providing material support to al-Shabaab.

The judge said he had to ask himself, “Why aren’t you lying today? I have no indicia that you’re not.”

About the photo:  I found it here with a brief background on Hassan.  I had not seen this website, Global Jihad, before but it looks like it might be useful going forward.

Nine Somali refugees to be sentenced in Minnesota terror case this week

It appears we are reaching the end of the story (this particular story!) of the twenty plus Somali youths who left the good life we gave them in America to join an al-Qaida affiliate, al-Shabab, in East Africa where they underwent jihad training.

Former “refugees” on the march in East Africa. At taxpayers’ expense we fed, housed and educated the “youths” so they would be strong and healthy to join the jihad! Think about it! Without your help they may never have grown up!

Below is a fairly brief summary of the story that we have followed extensively since 2008 here at RRW.  In fact, when you type into our search function the words ‘Somali missing youths‘ you will see an archive that probably runs to at least 50 previous posts.

The only glaring error I see here is that, perhaps recruiters appealed to the youths to help rid Somalia of Ethiopians, but that is not what this was all about.  I noticed when I went to the Senate hearing, here in March 2009, Senators Lieberman and Collins were obviously hoping it was all about “patriotism” for the homeland (a “homeland” that most had never set foot in previously!) but we learned in trial testimony later that al-Shabab was busy violently building an Islamic caliphate.

Here is the summary at the Lacrosse Tribune.   Don’t you think it’s interesting that this news will likely not appear on Fox, CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS etc. etc.

Must be a local crime story!

Nine people convicted in a government investigation of terror recruitment and financing for an al-Qaida-linked group in Somalia are to be sentenced this week in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis.

Authorities say more than 20 young men have left Minnesota to join al-Shabab since 2007. Some have died, several remain at large, and others have been prosecuted in what the FBI has said is one of the largest efforts to recruit U.S. fighters to a foreign terrorist organization.

Some of the issues in the case, based on court testimony, court documents and AP interviews:

HOW IT BEGAN

In 2007, small groups of young Somali men began holding secret meetings at a Minneapolis mosque, in cars, and at restaurants to talk about returning to their homeland to wage jihad against Ethiopians. The Ethiopians had been brought into Somalia in 2006 by its weak U.N.-backed government, but were viewed by many Somalis as invaders.

Al-Shabab recruiters in Minneapolis appealed to patriotic ideals and told young men _ some in their teens _ that it was their “duty” to return to Somalia and fight. Recruiters also quoted from the Quran, appealing to religious beliefs to deepen the fighters’ resolve.

The men began leaving Minnesota in small groups to avoid detection, with the first departing Minneapolis on Oct. 30, 2007. Additional groups left in waves over the next months and years, with some raising money for their trips under false pretenses.

The FBI began investigating in 2008. The U.S. declared al-Shabab a terrorist organization in early 2008.

Read it all.  Everything discussed in this summary was reported at some point on the pages of RRW.

Minnesota will be heard at the State Department refugee hearing next Wednesday

Minnesota resident:  “Why in the world would you import this very dangerous ideology called Islam?”

Readers!  You have a little more than two hours (it is just about 2:40 Eastern time) to take your one opportunity to tell the US State Department what you think they should do in fiscal year 2014—how many refugees will be coming to your town and from where?

We have heard from Texas, New Hampshire, Tennessee, Montana, Maryland, North Carolina and now Minnesota.  See our archives for the hearing here.    (Arizona!  Are you out there? I think I got one from Arizona too, please resend!)

Here then is Debbie Anderson writing from Minneapolis (emphasis mine):

Anne C. Richard
Asst. Secretary of State for Population, Refugees and Migration
US State Department
Washington, DC.

May 8, 2013

Re: Federal Register Public Notice 8241

Dear Ms Richard,

I am writing to comment on the President’s FY 2014 U. S. Refugee Admissions Program as part of the upcoming May 15 public hearing to be held in Washington, DC.

‘Refugee Resettlement’ that was once promoted by politicians as an honorable humanitarian effort has degenerated into a very expensive, corrupt industry that seems to serve only those who are enriched by it – politically and/or financially.  Plus, this program is destroying the fabric of American society, helping to bankrupt the country, and is endangering our citizens and our national security.

MN has received so many Somali ‘refugees’ that Minneapolis is aka ‘Little Mogadishu’.  Hardly a compliment considering their decades of civil war and their Islamic hatred for America.  Who can forget the pictures of the rabid, cheering crowds dragging our dead sons through their dusty streets?!

The large influx of Muslim ‘refugees’ has greatly empowered notorious groups such as CAIR-MN, MAS-MN, ISNA-MN – groups with well-documented links to terrorism – that are working hard to change MN into another sharia compliant state.  Because of the aggressive efforts by these Muslim groups I am increasingly seeing Minnesota called Minnesotastan.

These ‘refugees’ and their criminal leaders and radical Imams are a direct threat to America’s national security.  I stood on top of the South Tower only four months before Muslims felled them.  How many Americans have to be savagely maimed or killed before this madness is stopped?

Are you not aware of Islam’s 1400 year history of jihad against the ‘infidels’?  Are you not aware of the savage global jihad that is occurring throughout the world today?  Are you not aware of the plight of Western Europe with the aggressive Islamization of their countries?  Why in the world would you import this very dangerous ideology called Islam?

Here are some of the documented consequences of this harmful program called ‘Refugee Resettlement’:

Minnesota Sheriff Reports to Congress on Growing Somalia Muslim Gang Threat Another Indictment Brought to MN Al-Shabaab

Now Muslims have set up child prostitution rings in the U.S.

Feds assist terror-linked CAIR to force mosque on Minn. town

Man from Coon Rapids, MN found guilty of honor-killing his daughter

Suspicion about Flying Imams grows as terror links pile up

The mosqueing of our neighborhoods – Bloomington, MN

Plus, the 36+ mosques in MN have hosted radical Imams such as Siraj Wahhj, Dr Jamal Badawi and Omar Shahin.

As a citizen I am fed up with the staggering costs of this program and I am fed up with overwhelming influx of those who are hostile to Americans and our way of life.  And I am fed up with politicians and kumbaya ‘church’ leaders who are fulfilling their own agendas rather than looking out for the welfare of the American people.

Please stop the immigration of all Muslims.  Islamic ideology is not compatible with the American Constitution.

I ask that all refugee admissions be dramatically cut back to less than 5000 annually.  And, finally, I ask for a citizen review board to oversee this mammoth corrupt industry.

Thank you for your time and consideration.

Sincerely,
Debbie Anderson
Minneapolis, MN

cc: Congressman Keith Ellison
2244 Rayburn Building
Washington, D.C. 20515-2305

cc: Senator Amy Klobuchar
302 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510

cc: Senator Al Franken
309 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510

cc: Attention: Senator Amy Klobuchar
US Senate Judiciary Committee
Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees and Border Security
224 Dirksen Senate Office Building, Washington, DC 20510

cc: House of Representatives Judiciary Committee
Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security
2138 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC 20515

Go here for instructions on faxing or e-mailing your testimony today!  If you send me testimonies to publish, I’ll post them in the days ahead.

Montgomery Co. MD man arrested for racist graffiti

The 32-year old “student” Dawit Bezuneh was arrested for scrawling “Death to America” and “Cracker is inferior race” on the walls of his school—Montgomery College/Takoma Park. 

This is hilarious!  Takoma Park is the hometown of Thomas Perez soon to be Obama’s Labor Secretary, the birthplace of CASA de Maryland (scroll down to second half of this post), and it’s a town that allows non-citizens to vote—hardly a town whose residents could be called ” white crackers.”   They “welcome” immigrants there, just like Cambridge, Mass does!

Dawit Bezuneh arrested for writing “Death to America” and racist slurs in Takoma Park, MD

I’m guessing Bezuneh is an Ethiopian refugee or asylee (DC area is loaded with them), but of course no media accounts (I read several) mention his immigration status or his nationality.

Here is the story from Scott McCabe at the Washington Examiner (last Friday):

A 32-year-old District of Columbia man has been accused of vandalizing Montgomery College’s Takoma Park/Silver Spring campus with racist graffiti.

Takoma Park police said 32-year-old Dawit Bezuneh used spray paint to tag “Death to America” and green and red markers to write “Cracker is inferior race,” “white crackers” throughout the school.

Cracker, sometimes “white cracker,” is sometimes a pejorative expression for white people, police said.

The vandalism occurred between October and April and appeared to be racially motivated, [duh!--ed] police said. Graffiti was written inside classrooms, bathrooms, in the library and on computer equipment.

Bezuneh was charged with malicious destruction of property, malicious destruction of property scheme, and race, religion ethnic property damage. More charges are pending, police said.

Readers, assuming he is Ethiopian (but even if he isn’t, this is interesting anyway!), check out this post about an Imam in Northern Virginia stirring up Ethiopian Muslims with “jihad talk.”  We have many more posts on Ethiopian refugees so just type “Ethiopians” into our search function for more.

Al Jazeera picks Nashville to host one of its twelve American bureaus

The story comes to us from the Nashville Scene thanks to one of our many informants from Tennessee.

If you are a regular reader here at RRW, this won’t come as a surprise as Nashville (thanks to Catholic Charities) is a hub of activity for Muslim immigrants.  Often referred to as the Kurdish Capital of America it is also home to a growing Somali population.

For new readers curious about Nashville, note that it is so important to the Islamic Doctrine of Immigration that we have a whole category here (46 previous posts!) on the city and its immigrant issues.  (I believe Islamists especially want to stick-it to a city representing the Bible Belt of America).

The Nashville Scene sanitizes Al Jazeera (no surprise):

Nashville will be home to one of 12 Al Jazeera America hubs across the country, according to a bureau list from the network, obtained by Politico media reporter Dylan Byers.

You may remember, Al Jazeera — the news network owned by the government of Qatar — is coming to America after purchasing Al Gore’s Current TV at the end of last year. The network has often been highly controversial in the states, as many Americans associate it with airing Al Qaeda home videos on its Arabic-language station. More recently, though, it has gained credibility in journalistic circles, particularly after its coverage of the Arab Spring protests.   [Really now! Just a little spin---ed]

Go to Politico for the news and the list of the other eleven lucky cities.

Hold the bouquets for Uncle Ruslan

Update May 5th:  Tsarni trying to get his nephew buried in Mass.  But, he has been successful in America, why not ship his body back to Russia.  His grave in America will just serve as a rallying point for protestors.

In the midst of the media storm created by the Boston Bomber Brothers Tsarnaev, their Uncle Ruslan Tsarni (why did he change his name?) came forward to condemn his nephews’ actions and, if I heard it once, I heard it a zillion times—Ruslan is the kind of immigrant we want!  (Personally I thought he sounded like a phoney, like someone trying to save his own skin!)

Ruslan Tsarni with adoring press in front of his Montgomery Village, MD home.
Photo by Allison Shelley/Getty Images

If you were among those gushing fans, think again.  Steve Sailor writing at VDARE directs us to a website that has been researching the question about how this extended family of Chechens got asylum here in the first place. Yes, how?

Where is Fox News on this?  (hmmmm!)

See MadCow Morning News:

The uncle of the accused Boston Marathon bombers incorporated, in 1995, a company called the “Congress of Chechen International Organizations.”

Even as the company was sending aid to Islamic terrorists in Chechnya, its listed address was in the home of former top CIA official Graham Fuller.

Ruslan Tsarni was listed as the company’s resident agent. The company’s address was 11114 Whisperwood Ln in Rockville MD., the home of Graham Fuller, the one-time Vice-Chairman of the National Intelligence Council at the CIA under President Reagan.

Over this past weekend, Fuller reluctantly confirmed the report published here last Thursday, “Boston bombers’ uncle married daughter of top CIA official.”

He admitted that Ruslan Tsarni had once been married to his daughter.

But then, with the same breath, he derided what he called “rumors” of links between Tsarni and the Agency as “absurd.”

But documents surfaced over the weekend that cast a long shadow of doubt on Graham Fuller’s assertion, which amounts to a beat cop waving his baton, and saying, “There’s nothing to see here folks. Move along.”

Read the whole expose’ and read Steve Sailor at VDARE.

How closely tied is the refugee/asylum industry to our intelligence community, inquiring minds want to know.  See my post here on the International Rescue Committee earlier this week—it raises the same sort of issues.

 And, you all thought this business of saving poor refugees and asylum seekers was all about humanitarianism. 

Oops forgot to mention—our whole category on the Boston Marathon Bombing is here.

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