Here’s How A Suspected ISIS Fighter Ended Up In The US As A Refugee
6:28 PM 08/16/2018
Chuck Ross | Reporter
Suspected Islamic State fighter Omar Ameen was arrested in California on Wednesday on charges of murdering an Iraqi police officer.
Ameen, 45, obtained refugee status, allowing him to come to the U.S.
Ameen met little resistance on his path to the U.S. All he had to do was lie about his links to ISIS, according to the Department of Justice.
The process for Iraqi national Omar Adbulsattar Ameen to enter the U.S. was simple: All the suspected Islamic State fighter had to do was lie on his United Nations applications for refugee status and during interviews with U.S. Customs and Immigration Services (USCIS) officials, according to the Department of Justice.
Ameen, who was arrested in California on Wednesday on an outstanding murder warrant in Iraq, claimed he was not a member of ISIS or al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI). He also denied taking part in any terrorist or criminal activity in Iraq.
In order to meet the physical safety requirement to qualify as a refugee, Ameen, 45, claimed his father had been murdered while helping the American military and that his brother had been kidnapped by a terrorist group affiliated with radical cleric Muqtada al Sadr.
But all of that was a lie, according to the Justice Department.
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