There were numerous warnings that a generous Saudi immigration program had the potential to bring more terrorists into the country. Yet our government brokered a deal with the Saudi king to provide thousands of student visas.
Khalid Aldawsari, charged in a plot to bomb U.S. targets, entered the country in 2008 under the same student visa deal. The 20-year old Saudi college student was recently arrested in Lubbock, Texas for allegedly plotting to bomb the residence of former president George W. Bush, as well as nuclear power plants and several other sites.
There were 15 Saudis amongst the 9/11 terrorist bombers. One of the reasons they were successful was that the U.S. embassy in Saudi Arabia rubber stamped their U.S. visas for them. Yet, in 2005, Bush agreed to a request from the Saudi king to expedite visas for young Saudi men studying in the our country. He believed this would mend U.S.-Saudi relations, ignoring the fact that Riyadh continues to teach their youth anti-American hate and that they sponsor al-Qaida terror.
As part of the ill-advised immigration deal, Saudi Arabia over the next four years sent 21,000 students to the country they have grown up hating. If only 1% of the new crop of Saudi students are radical, that’s 210 new potential terrorists inside our borders. In 2008, the administration increased the risk by inviting as many as 30,000 more Saudi students over a five year period.
Aldawsari was one of more than 10,000 Saudi students granted visas under the expanded program in 2008. The FBI says he planned to attack the U.S. when he applied for the special visa, which expires in 2014.
The “financial scholarship is the largest,” Aldawsari wrote in his diary, “which will help tremendously in providing me with the support I need for Jihad, Allah willing.”
Far from benefiting from any supposed “cultural exchange,” Aldawsari spent his three years in the U.S.:
- Obtaining bomb-making equipment and a Hazmat suit.
- Casing bombing targets across the country, including Dallas night clubs and New York City buildings.
- Renting cars to hide bombs in.
- Trying to obtain a forged a U.S. birth certificate and passport.
- Studying how to conceal explosives in realistic-looking dolls tucked into strollers.
He did all of this under the radar of the FBI and Homeland Security, which didn’t even notice he no longer attended the college he cited on his visa forms. If it weren’t for an alert freight company — which tipped off authorities after returning a suspicious shipment of explosive chemicals bound for Aldawsari — he might have hit his targets. In fact, his plan was in the advanced stages. Federal agents caught up with him only in early February.
In other words, the FBI got lucky!
More than 26,700 Saudi students got U.S. visas in 2010 – up from 6,800 in 2001. How many other Saudis like Aldawsari are out there casing targets and plotting attacks? How many will overstay their visas and become sleeper agents?
Aldawsari may not have acted alone. He appeared to e-mail at least one other Arab man about his plans. ”One operation in the land of infidels is equal to 10 operations against occupying forces in the land of the Muslims,” he wrote. “Therefore, it’s incumbent upon Muslims to conquer infidels in their land.”
President Obama has broadened these suicidal immigration policies. The State Department has resettled more than 82,000 Somali refugees over the past decade. Last year, more than 1,760 arrived, despite FBI warnings that young Somali-American men are joining al-Qaida.
Who will be held accountable when these programs backfire on innocent Americans again?
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