Thread: Fox Video: Saudi boston bombing to be deported

Steve Emerson Bungles It Again: Saudi National Not Being Deported

http://gawker.com/5995003/steve-emer...being-deported

Napolitano: Deportation of Saudi national is a 'rumor'

Daily Caller‎ - 6 hours ago

http://dailycaller.com/2013/04/18/na...al-is-a-rumor/

BOMB SUSPECT DEAD, MANHUNT FOR 2ND
Boston suspects ID'd as brothers

•Dead: Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26;
still at large: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19

FULL STORY http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/19/us/bos...nce/index.html

FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 2013

VIDEO: MULTIPLE CONFIRMATION OF IMMEDIATE DEPORTATION OF SAUDI NATIONAL "PERSON OF INTEREST" IN BOSTON BOMBING


OR, AS ACE OF SPADES SAYS, IT'S RE-BUNKED:

You Know That Report That the Saudi National Was Being Deported?
And Then That Was Debunked?
It's Re-Bunked



From Atlas:

Watch this video. Abdul al-Harbi, who was first questioned in the Boston bombing, is going to be deported on“national security grounds.” Watch this interview on Hannity with terrorism expert Steve Emerson, confirming the stunning news. Al-Harbi is adevout Muslim from Medina. Anti-Jihad activist and blogger Walid Shoebat reports that he is a scion of a very powerful Saudi family with terrorist ties.


The well-connected Saudi person of interest in the Boston bombing was visited by Saudi Consul General in New York Azam Al-Qain. Al-Harbi had multiple national security violations:
Saudi Consul General in New York was in the Hospital with Saudi National "Person of Interest" in Boston Bombing MEMRI

Saudi media outlets – Alarabiya.net, Al-Watan, 'Okaz, and Sabq.org – reported on Saudi nationals who were wounded in the April 15, 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, and on their situations.
The following is a review of the reports:

Saudi ConsulGeneral in New York Azam Al-Qain with Al-Harbi. Source: twitpic.com/cjvpo7, April 17, 2013.

Click here to read the full report.

UPDATE: "Exclusive: Congressional Source Contradicts ICE Account, Says Lawmakers in Possession of File on Saudi National That Called for Visa Revocation", The Blaze: (thanks to Andrew Bostom)

Documents have been presented to Congress confirming that plans were made to revoke the visa of Abdul Rahman Ali Alharbi, a Saudi national once considered a “person of interest” in the Boston bombings, a congressional source told TheBlaze on Thursday.
Other sources, including one at the FBI, previously informed TheBlaze that there have been discussions aboutdeporting Alharbi on “security and related grounds.” He has been living in the Boston area and in the U.S. on a student visa. An FBI source said the agency is against deporting Alharbi because of his status as a material witness.
The congressional source told TheBlaze it was unclear as to why representatives from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) would be unaware of this information. Earlier on Thursday, an official with ICE said it was “categorically false” that Alharbi had ever been considered for deportation.
National Targeting Center, a counterterrorism sub-agency of U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the Department of Homeland Security. The file stated that the individual is “linked to the Boston bombing” and was to be processed for revocation of his visa based on national security grounds, the congressional source revealed.
The source confirmed seeing the information sent to members of Congress but could not provide copies of any documents to TheBlaze.
Read the rest at:http://ibloga.blogspot.com/2013/04/v...=1366348428695

UPDATE III:

TheBlaze Chief Content Officer Joel Cheatwood reported on "The Glenn Beck Program" Thursday morning that TheBlaze has been informed that the government is now considering not deporting Abdul Rahman Ali Alharbi.

http://news.yahoo.com/report-saudi-n...050427325.html

Fox Amplifies Discredited Anti-Islamic Activist Steve Emerson During Boston Coverage Blog ››› 6 hours and 24 minutes ago ››› SOLANGE UWIMANA

Fox News hosted anti-Islam activist Steve Emerson to repeat the disputed claim that a Saudi student he named as a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings is slated for deportation, one of several claims that Emerson got wrong about the bombings this week.

Emerson, who styles himself as some kind of expert on terrorism and Islamic extremism especially, has a tenuous history with the facts. Indeed, his analysis of Boston is reminiscent of his blunders about the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995 -- when his certainty that Islamic terrorists were behind the incident was exposed as false.
On April 16, C-SPAN hosted Emerson to discuss the Boston bombings. As Salon reported, Emerson cited "classified information" when he fingered a "Saudi national" as a possible suspect because, he stated, "the burns on his skin match the explosive residue of the bomb that exploded."
A few hours later on Fox News, Emerson recanted, saying: "We're back to square one in terms of suspects because the Saudi suspect has been ruled out." Indeed, the Saudi student has been cleared of suspicion and according to law enforcement was never in custody.
But on Fox, Emerson continued to tie the bombings to "jihadists," claiming that the "actual fragment, which were nails and ball-bearings" used in Boston are "a hallmark, by the way, of jihadist suicide bombings." As The Daily Beast pointed out in response to Emerson's incorrect musings:

[T]he Boston Marathon bombs don't appear to have been suicide bombings at all, but just as he did in Oklahoma City, Emerson is attributing widely used modi operandi and ascribing it to Muslim terrorists. Just as Tim McVeigh and Anders Breivik might have been surprised to learn that only Middle Easterners seek to "inflict as many casualties as possible," so too would Ted Kaczynski (an anti-technology zealot known as the Unabomber) and David Copeland (a British neo-Nazi known as the Nailbomber) be surprised to learn that putting nails in bombs as shrapnel qualifies them as "jihadists." And actual terrorism expert Will McCants Tweeted a 2011 case where white supremacists had used ball bearings in a bomb.

Indeed, it is now being reported that two brothers who may be from Russia's Caucasus region are believed to be responsible for the Boston bombings.
Despite it all, Fox News continued to host Emerson. On April 17, he appeared on Sean Hannity's show to invent the conspiracy theory that the Saudi student he had named a suspect was going to be deported "on national security grounds." Inforwars.com, conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' website, latched onto Emerson's report to claim this offered proof of an "attempt" by the administration "to cover up a possible Saudi connection to the Boston attack."
Even though this also turned out to be false, the next day, Hannity hosted Emerson again to repeat the deportation myth. But as The Hill reported:

Administration officials told The Hill on Thursday that news reports about the student injured in the bombing are confusing him with another student from Saudi Arabia who was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement for violating his visa.
[...]
"These rumors are wrong," a White House official said. "This is a totally different individual who is not the individual that was questioned in connection with Boston. And this individual is in custody for reasons unrelated to Boston."

What is revealing about all of this is the fact that the media treated Emerson as a credible expert despite his checkered history on terrorism issues. Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR) noted that immediately following the Oklahoma City bombing, Emerson claimed on CBS that the bombing had "a Middle Eastern trait" because it "was done with the intent to inflict as many casualties as possible." Emerson went even further, saying that Oklahoma City area is area is "one of the centers for Islamic radicalism outside the Middle East."
In a 1999 report titled "Steve Emerson's Crusade," FAIR stated that Emerson's "priority is not so much news as it is an unrelenting attack against Arabs and Muslims," and he has a history of "pushing questionable stories."
According to FAIR, when asked about how Emerson is perceived by fellow journalists, investigative author Seymour Hersh replied: "He's poison."
The Chicago chapter of the Council On American-Islamic Relations has accused Emerson of being a "liar" and his Investigative Project, which claims to be a "counter-terrorism investigative project," of being "little more than an anti-Muslim propaganda mouth-piece."
While other news outlets have shied away from relying on his so-called expertise, Fox News and other right-wing media outlets have been enthusiastic promoters of his anti-Islam rantings:

• Emerson claimed President Obama "is not necessarily a Muslim," adding, "I don't believe that" but he is "pro-Islamist."

• Emerson suggested that some level of Islamophobia is justified because "65 to 70 percent of all international terrorist attacks are carried out by radical Muslims, so there's a fear based on that."

• Emerson claimed Palestinian militants are in Mexico learning "how to dig tunnels that will evade detection in Gaza."

• Emerson's Investigative Project smeared a Muslim advocate for urging American Muslims to have an attorney present when speaking to law enforcement.

• Emerson joined other right-wing media figures in calling for more racial profiling of Muslims. 　
  　
  http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/04/19/fox-amplifies-discredited-anti-islamic-activist/193701

SAUDI NEWS SITE: MICHELLE OBAMA VISITED SAUDI NATIONAL IN HOSPITAL ON THURSDAY

Apr. 19, 2013 11:45am Tiffany Gabbay

The well-known Saudi Arabian news site Okaz.com released a report claiming first lady Michelle Obama visited two young Saudi Arabian nationals — including one once considered a person of interest and who sources tell TheBlaze was being considered for deportation — in the hospital Thursday following the Boston attacks and reassured them of their health status.
Below is a screenshot of the Okaz report:

Steven Miller, a researcher at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, translated the Arabic-language article into English for TheBlaze.
“Yesterday, Michelle Obama, the wife of the American President, visited the Saudis in the hospital who were injured in the Boston bombing, Abdul Rahman Ali Isa al-Salmi al-Harbi and Noura Khaled Saleh al-Ajaji, to reassure them of their health,” begins the article before explaining the students’ injuries.
“Noura al-Ajaji underwent a third surgery yesterday to repair and beautify the thigh area, just above the knee, treat skin damage caused by shrapnel, and remove fragments. This was the third round of the treatment plan for al-Ajaji; the first phase focused on sterilizing the wounds, and the second focused on healing the gash caused by glass shrapnel. Medical reports issued by the hospital yesterday confirmed the complete integrity of her knee and thigh.”
“Al-Ajaji, who is a master’s student in cosmetic dentistry, was injured by flying glass fragments from the nearby Colby glasses store, which she was nearby during the Boston Marathon bombings, resulting in an 11 centimeter gash in the thigh area.”
A senior law enforcement official with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) told TheBlaze Thursday that reports claiming the department was deporting Alharbi under section 212 3B (“security and related grounds”) and had opened an “event” (or file) on the Saudi Arabian national following the Boston attacks is “categorically false.”
Documents presented to Congress, however, were subsequently reported by TheBlaze to have confirmed that plans were made to revoke the visa of Alharbi.
The congressional source told TheBlaze it was unclear as to why representatives from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) would be unaware of the plans for visa revocation.
The Saudi news report is plausible given that the first lady along with President Obama visited victims of the Boston bombings at several different area hospitals Thursday afternoon.
The visits were closed to the media and scheduled with little advance notice due to security reasons.
The New Yorker called Okaz as the “most popular” newspaper in Saudi Arabia
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013...l-on-thursday/

Visiting the victims was a good thing.

Oops, spoke too soon!!