Government failure

[13.99]

Despite Recent Record Spending, Congress Failed to Fund Detention Space to Hold Captured Illegals From Terror-Sponsoring Countries



Because it lacked adequate detention space, DHS says it was forced over the last three years to release hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens it had caught and were being processed for deportation. Among these, as CNSNews.com recently reported, were 481 illegal aliens from state sponsors of terror and other "countries of interest" that DHS caught and released in fiscal years 2007-2009 and who are now fugitives whose whereabouts is unknown.

[viking12j]

Government..........failure.
 
 
 
Isn't that being redundant ?

[13.99]

YES!

[wehunglow]

Especially for the last decade or so.

[13.99]

Something the Federal Government should actually be spending money on and they can't get it right. We really do need term limits!!!!!

[liehtr]

who are you, big orange, my friend 13's beau?

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Despite Recent Record Spending, Congress Failed to Fund Detention Space to Hold Captured Illegals From Terror-Sponsoring Countries

Because it lacked adequate detention space, DHS says it was forced over the last three years to release hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens it had caught and were being processed for deportation. Among these, as CNSNews.com recently reported, were 481 illegal aliens from state sponsors of terror and other "countries of interest" that DHS caught and released in fiscal years 2007-2009 and who are now fugitives whose whereabouts is unknown.

Anything like links and documentation to prove these illegals were from "state sponsors of terror" as you allege, rancid orange?


Oh, and did you notice out of those span of 3 years you mentioned them being released 2 of the 3 years were under George W. Bush.

But, you know, Bush wanted terrorists running loose so he could manipulate the populace with the fear of them running loose and that way he could get away with murder.


That's why he ignored good intel from several good American sources and chose to go with a single source of bad intel:  Chalabi and his BS.

[13.99]

Hater, you mention your friend and she shows up! GFY

[liehtr]

Easy Nancy, don't get your panties in a wad, I was being sarcastic when I called 13 a friend. Wow the board has not gotten less hostile has it?

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These 481 caught-and-released fugitive illegal aliens from terror sponsors and "countries of interest" include 97 citizens of Nigeria, the country from which Northwest Flight 253 hijacker Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab hailed. They also include 8 citizens of Yemen, the country where Abdulmutallab was recruited by al Qaeda, as well as 87 Pakistanis, 34 Lebanese, 29 Iranians, 22 Somalians, 14 Sudanese, 13 Syrians, 8 Algerians, 4 Afghans, and 2 Saudia Arabians.

Syria, Iran and Sudan (along with Cuba) are designated by the U.S. State Department as sponsors of terrorism. Nationals of the other countries were singled out by DHS for enhanced security scrutiny when boarding U.S.-bound flights after the attempted Christmas Day bombing of Northwest Flight 253.

Yet in recent years when nationals of these countries were found to be illegally in the United States, they were not automatically detained while undergoing the deportation process--allowing some of them to become fugitives.

Congress has been uncharacteristically frugal in funding detention spaces for illegal aliens despite a 2004 law that specifically authorized and directed DHS to increase the number of detention beds by 8,000 per year--for a total of 40,000--in the fiscal years from 2006 to 2010. Had the 2004 authorization been followed up with the necessary annual appropriations, it would have increased the number of detention beds available for illegal aliens from roughly 20,000 to 60,000.

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SANAA JAIL ESCAPE

SANAA JAIL ESCAPE

On 02/03/2006 22 of the top Al Qaeda operatives in Yemen jail, who were detained in a compound run by the Yemeni Political Security Organization prison, managed to escape. The militants dug a 130 meters tunnel through which they fled jail.

Eighteen fugitives had been tried for terrorist cases, mainly the attack on the American Destroyer USS Cole and the Limburg Attack case. Some other fugitives were al-Tawhid Battalions, whose members had been condemned of forming an armed gang and planning for terrorist act in Yemen, and another terrorist cell headed by Abdul Raouf Nassib, who were condemned of plots for carrying out acts of devastation and forging official documents.

On 07/14/2006 13 Yemeni intelligence officers were sentenced to 3 years in jail for neglecting their duty and by that, enabled the convicted terrorists to escape. There is little doubt that the fugitives had assistance within the Yemen security apparatus.

The escape boosted and fueled Al Qaeda activity in the next two years and was a major blow to the attempt of Yemen authorities to contain Al Qaeda threat in the country.

The fugitives were:

* Fawaz al-Rabeei, sentenced to death for his role in the Limburg attack. Five other accomplices in the Limburg attack - Mohammed al-Omdah, Arif Saleh Mujali, the younger brother of Hizam Ali Mujali, Omar Saeed Jarallah, Qassim al-Raimi, and Mohammed al-Dailami (see also - Limburg-Trial).  Fawaz al-Rabeei was killed, along with Mohammed al-Dailami, by the Yemen police in a shootout in Sanaa on 10/01/2006.

*Four persons were convicted on charge of their membership of Al Qaeda organization and formation of an armed gang: Ibrahim al-Maqri, Shafiq Ahmed Omar, Abdullah al-Wadie and Mansour al-Bayhani, the brother of Zacarias al-Bayhani.


* Two others: Abdulrahman Ahmed Basurra, and Khalid Mohammed al-Batati, were al-Tawhid Battalions members.


* Jamal al-Badawi , the leader of Al Qaeda cell in Sanaa, He surrendered to the Yemeni authorities on 10/17/2007.

* Jaber Elbaneh - the planner of the USS Cole attack. He along with other five escapees: Mohammed al-Omdah, Kassem al-Raimi, Nasser al-Wehaishi, Ibrahim al-Huwaidi, who was sentenced on  08/25/2004 for 10 years in jail as an accomplice to Fawaz al-Rabeei, and the Kuwaiti citizen Hamza Salim al-Kuwaiti tried to carry out a car bomb suicide attack on tourist in Marib region. The plot was foiled by the Yemen authority on 09/15/2006 (See - Marib Foiled Attack). On 05/20/2007 Jaber Elbaneh and Mohammed al-Omdah surrendered themselves in to Yemen authorities on the condition that his prison sentence would not be extended and is today (06/2008) in Yemeni jail (see also - 4 Marib Escapees).

The other four - Qassim al-Raimi, Nasser al-Wehaishi, Ibrahim al-Huwaidi and Hamza Salim al-Kuwaiti were behind the Marib Suicide Attack on 09/15/2006. Hamza Salim al-Kuwaiti was killed by Yemen forces on 08/06/2007. Nasser al-Wehaishi Ibrahim al-Huwaidi and Kassem al-Raimi are still at large wanted by Yemen authority.

* Abdullah Ahmed al-Raimi, also known as Abdallah al-Kini (from Kenya where a large group of Yemenis is living) or Owaiss, was the contact man with the Swiss-Cell and helped to finance the Riyadh Suicide Attacks, on 05/12/2003. He was arrested in Qatar, UAE, on 07/20/2003, and then extradited, in 05/2004, to Yemen, where he appears to be cooperating with authorities. (One indicator: Owaiss identified a picture of one of the Swiss suspects as somebody he had known who had undergone training in explosives at Al Qaeda's al-Farouq training camp in Afghanistan).

Abdullah Ahmed al-Raimi was described by the Swiss prosecution (Nicati’s Report) in 08/2004 as an "operational Al Qaeda agent" involved in the October 2000 attack on the destroyer USS Cole off Yemen, which killed 17 American sailors, and a close associate of Saif al-Adel.

Abdullah Ahmed al-Raimi was officially charged in Yemen, on 08/24/2004, and sentenced to four years in jail. He was caught, eventually, in Sanaa on 04/04/2008.

* Six escapees: Hizam Saleh Mujali, Fawzi Muhamed, Zacarias al-Yafeei, Zacarias al-Bayhani, the brother of Mansour al-Bayhani, Yasser Al-Homikani and one whose name was not disclosed, were scheduled to stand trial on charges of their affiliation to Al Qaeda organization. Hizam Saleh Mujali, the brother and junior associate of Arif Saleh Mujali, surrendered to the authorities on 04/02/2006.

* The brothers Mansour and Zacarias al-Bayhani have two other brothers Ghalib and Tawfiq al-Bayhani, who were in 2006 in USA custody in Guantanamo. http://www.globaljihad.net/view_page.asp?id=977


Against advice from our military to allow these operatives to be imprisoned in this Yemeni jail, Bush allowed them to be held there where *DUH* they were able to escape!

[chuck_curtis]

Government..........failure.

That's cutting to the chase.  It uses the fear of terrorism to lake away our liberty and to tell us how much we need it make us safe by building the humongous DHS, and yet it's not about making us safe at all.  It never was.