And apparently border officials let him right back into the country. Evidently to have questioned him about what he was doing in Yemen would have been “Islamophobic.”
“Helena-West Helena man pleads guilty in terror case,” by Neal Earley, Arkansas Democrat Gazette, July 8, 2021:
A Yemeni citizen living in Arkansas pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court to providing support and resources to the terrorist organization Al-Qaida.
Bilal Al-Rayanni, who was living in Helena-West Helena, pleaded guilty to one count of providing material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization.
Al-Rayanni, also known as Bilal Kassim Alawdi, was originally indicted on allegations of providing a false name while applying for a passport. Later, a superseding indictment was filed alleging that Al-Rayanni had provided support and material to Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, also known as Ansar al-Shari’a….
Al-Rayanni told federal investigators that his father illegally purchased a U.S. visa from a man named “Kassim Alawdi” and used that name to obtain a passport for him in 1992 and to renew it in 2002, 2008 and 2019.
According to an indictment, Al-Rayanni traveled to Yemen for three months in 2014 and provided support and material to Al-Qaida, knowing the group was engaged in terrorism….
mortimer says
Any migrant or alien or immigrant who engages in jihad either abroad or in the USA should automatically be deported without recourse or remedy.
If the US and other Western countries don’t get firm about jihadism and deport, then Muslims will have the impression that it is OK to conduct it as long as they are abroad.
Deportation or extradition is all the jihadists truly seem to fear.
gravenimage says
Mortimer, I think he should be deported *after* serving his term. No reason Muslims should be excempt from our laws. But the should definately be deported then.
Rob Porter says
Matters are in a pitiful state when U.S. immigration officials, so often obnoxious toward foreigners entering the U.S., don’t possess the guts to handle a criminal Muslim as he should be treated. Muslims have done a remarkably good con job with their ‘Islamophobia’ crap.
Keith O says
Hang on, this crud renewed a passport with a false name 3 times and it was never detected by the gumbyment??? WOW, and we wonder why the US has so many problems.
OLD GUY says
If you don’t secure your countries borders you won’t have a country for long. Someone or group will come in and take what you have and what follows for most will be slave labor and misery.