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How Many Terrorist Attacks in the U.S. Have Been Carried Out by Immigrants from the 7 Banned Muslim Countries?

BY AURELIE CORINTHIOS
POSTED ON JANUARY 29, 2017 AT 10:00AM EST

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On Friday, President Donald Trump signed a controversial executive order that suspended entry of all refugees to the United States for 120 days, barred Syrian refugees indefinitely, and blocked entry into the U.S. for 90 days for citizens of seven predominantly Muslim countries: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen.

The ban has sparked outrage, fear and protests across America and the globe. Some have also called into question its legality, pointing to the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, which banned all discrimination against immigrants on the basis of national origin. On Saturday, federal judges in New York and Boston barred officials from deporting some refugees who found themselves affected by Trump’s order in the midst of traveling.

According to the order as supplied by the White House, the ban aims to “protect the American people from terrorist attacks by foreign nationals admitted to the United States.”

“Numerous foreign-born individuals have been convicted or implicated in terrorism-related crimes since September 11, 2001,” the order states. “The United States must be vigilant during the visa-issuance process to ensure that those approved for admission do not intend to harm Americans and that they have no ties to terrorism.”

According to the order, a waiver may be granted on a case-by-case basis by both the Department of State and the Department of Homeland Security and may be granted for those who are “a religious minority in his country of nationality facing religious persecution” as long as they don’t pose a security risk to the U.S. Before signing his executive order, Trump told the Christian Broadcasting Network that Christian refugees from Syria should be given priority treatment when entering the U.S. over Muslims.

According to the Washington Post and Bloomberg, Trump’s ban did not include any of the Muslim-majority countries where the Trump Organization — which is now being run by his sons — holds business interests. Those countries reportedly include Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Turkey, the U.A.E. and Azerbaijan.

Here’s a look back at the major terrorist attacks that have taken place on U.S. soil since 9/11, including the nationalities of the perpetrator, or perpetrators.

Of this list, zero fatal attacks were carried out by immigrants from the seven Muslim-majority countries targeted by the ban.

Two attacks were carried out by individuals with ties to the seven countries: the 2006 UNC SUV attack, and the 2016 Ohio State University attack. Neither of those plots resulted in American deaths.

9/11 attacks:
On Sept. 11, 2001, 19 militants hijacked four commercial airlines to carry out terrorist attacks on the U.S. that killed 2,996 people and wounded more than 6,000 others. The 19 men were associated with al-Qaeda, a decentralized terrorist network, at the time led by Osama bin Laden.
Of the 19 hijackers, 15 were from Saudi Arabia, two from the United Arab Emirates, one from Egypt and one from Lebanon.

2001 anthrax attacks:
Anonymous letters laced with deadly anthrax spores began arriving at media companies and congressional offices, killing five people and infecting 17 others. The FBI concluded Bruce Ivins, a top biodefense researcher, was the key suspect for the attacks, although he was never charged with any crime. Ivins was American.

2002 D.C. sniper attacks:
Over the course of three weeks in 2002, John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo killed 10 people and critically injured three others in Washington D.C., Baltimore, and Virginia.

Muhammad was born as John Allen Williams in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Malvo is from Jamaica.

2006 UNC SUV attack:
Mohammed Reza Taheri-aza intentionally rammed into people on the UNC Chapel Hill campus. Nine people were injured, none seriously. Taheri-aza was reportedly an Iranian-born U.S. citizen.

2006 Seattle Capitol Hill massacre:
Kyle Aaron Huff opened fire in a rave afterparty in Seattle’s Capitol Hill, killing six and wounding two others. Huff was American, from Whitefish, Montana.

2006 Seattle Jewish Federation shooting:
Naveed Afzal Haq shot six people, one fatally, at the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle building. Haq was a U.S. citizen of Pakistani descent.

2008 Knoxville Unitarian Universalist church shooting:
Jim David Adkisson killed two people and wounded seven others at the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church in Knoxville, Tennessee. Adkisson was American.

2009 Arkansas recruiting office shooting:
Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad shot and killed one military recruiter and seriously wounded another at a Little Rock, Arkansas Army/Navy Career Center. Muhammad, previously known as Carlos Leon Bledsoe, was American.

2009 Fort Hood shooting:
Nidal Malik Hasan, a U.S. Army major and psychiatrist, fatally shot 13 people and injured more than 30 others in Fort Hood, Texas. Hasan was born in the U.S. to Palestinian parents.

2010 Austin suicide attack:
Andrew Joseph Stack III deliberately crashed his single engine plane into the Austin, Texas, IRS building, killing himself, one IRS employee and injuring 13 others. Stack was American.

2012 Wisconsin Sikh temple shooting:
Wade Michael Page fatally shot six people and wounded four others at a Sikh temple is Oak Creek, Wisconsin. Page, who was active in white supremacist groups, was an American.

2013 Boston marathon bombing:
Double bombings near the finish line of the Boston marathon killed three people and injured at least 264. The perpetrators were brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. According to FBI interrogators, the two were motivated by extremist Islamic beliefs, but were not connected to any known terrorist groups. Tamerlan was born in Russia but was a permanent resident of the U.S., while Dzhokhar was born in Kyrgyzstan and became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 2012. Both were ethnically Chechen.

2013 Los Angeles International Airport shooting:
Paul Anthony Ciancia opened fire at Terminal 3 in LAX, killing one and injuring several others. Ciancia is American and grew up in Pennsville, New Jersey.

2013 Overland Park Jewish Community Center shooting:
Frazier Glenn Miller, Jr., a neo-Nazi white supremacist, committed a pair of shootings at the Jewish Community Center in Overland Park, Kansas, killing a total of three people. Miller was American.

2014 Las Vegas shooting:
A married couple, Jerad and Amanda Miller, committed a shooting spree in Las Vegas, killing three people as well as themselves. Both were American and supported extreme anti-government views.

2014 Queens hatchet attack:
Zale H. Thompson attacked four New York City Police Department officers with a metal hatchet, injuring two. A civilian was also injured after police opened fire on Thompson. Thompson, who was American, was described by police officials as a self-radicalized Muslim convert who was inspired by terrorist groups.

2014 slayings of NYPD officers:
Ismaaiyl Abdullah Brinsley killed two on-duty NYPD officers, reportedly as revenge for the deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown. Brinsley was born in the U.S. to a Muslim African-American family.

2015 Charleston church shooting:
Dylann Roof killed nine people and injured one during a mass shooting at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in downtown Charleston, South Carolina. Roof, a white supremacist, is American and was sentenced to death on Jan. 10.

2015 Chattanooga shooting:
Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez opened fire on two military installations in Chattanooga, Tennessee, killing four Marines and wounding two others. A fifth Marine died from his injuries two days later. Abdulazeez, a naturalized U.S. citizen, was born in Kuwait to Palestinian-Jordanian parents.

2015 Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood shooting:
Robert Lewis Dear, Jr. committed a mass shooting at a Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood clinic, killing three and injury nine others. Dear, who is American, was ruled incompetent to stand trial and was indefinitely confined to a Colorado state mental hospital.

2015 San Bernardino attack:
A married couple, Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik, killed 14 civilians and injured 22 others in a mass shooting at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, California. Farook was born in the U.S. to Pakistani parents, and Malik, who was a permanent U.S. resident, was born in Pakistan but grew up in Saudi Arabia.

2016 Orlando nightclub shooting:
Omar Mateen killed 49 people and wounded 53 in a mass shooting at the gay nightclub Pulse in Orlando, Florida. Mateen was an American born in the U.S. to Afghan parents.

2016 shooting of Dallas police officers: Micah Xavier Johnson ambushed a group of Dallas police officers, killing five and injuring nine others. Johnson, a former Army reservist, was an American.

2016 Minnesota mall stabbing:
Dahir A. Adan committed a mass stabbing at the Crossroads Center shopping mall in St. Cloud, Minnesota, injuring 10 people. Adan was born in Kenya and became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 2008.

2016 New York and New Jersey bombings:
Over the course of three days in September, three bombs exploded and several explosive devices were found in New Jersey and New York City, injuring at least 30 people. The alleged perpetrator was Ahmad Khan Rahimi, an Afghan-born U.S. citizen.

2016 Ohio State university attack:
Abdul Razal Ali Artan carried out an attack on the Ohio State University campus, injuring 13. Artan, a student of the university, was a Muslim Somali immigrant.

2017 Fort Lauderdale Airport attack:
A mass shooting occurred at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport near the baggage claim in Terminal 2 on Jan. 6. A total of five people were killed and six others were injured. Esteban Ruiz Santiago, the alleged shooter, was indicted on 22 counts by a federal grand jury on Thursday. Santiago is an American, born to Puerto Rican parents in New Jersey.

http://people.com/politics/donald-tr...us-statistics/

The point of the ban is missed in the article - the 7 countries are loaded with islamic terrorists

That's because the issue of ISIS started a few years ago and Obama had a similar travel ban for 6 months for these same 7 countries. It was that Obama ban that the Trump ban was fashioned after. No one knows about it until now because apparently the CORRUPT MEDIA, Diane Feinstein, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer all thought it was fine then.

This is all political tears and hysteria, all fabricated, DemoQuack hype. It will pass. But it is sickening to watch, I'll say that. I want to throw red rubber balls into the mouths of those hollering protesters at the airport. Airport acoustics weren't designed for that. Ugh!

John Mueller of the Cato Institute and OSU has published a comprehensive list of Islamic terrorist cases in the USA since the 9/11 attacks. http://politicalscience.osu.edu/facu...ler/since.html

In my view this is less about what has happened and more about preventing what could happen. We perform preventative maintenance on our automobiles to keep them running smoothly, why shouldn't we do the same for our country. To ignore the immigrant crisis going on in France, Germany, Sweden, England, and other places is to invite the same problems here in the future.

Bomber Sentenced to 2 Life Terms for Manhattan Attack

By MICHAEL WILSONFEB. 13, 2018

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Ahmad Khan Rahimi in State Superior Court in Elizabeth, N.J., in May. Mr. Rahimi was sentenced to life in prison in Federal Court in Manhattan on Tuesday for the Chelsea bombing.

Ahmad Khan Rahimi, an Afghan-born immigrant who worked quietly behind the counter of his family’s fast-food restaurant before building and planting the bomb that exploded in Manhattan in 2016, was sentenced on Tuesday to two life terms in prison.
In direct, unwritten remarks, Mr. Rahimi, 30, neither admitted nor denied setting the bomb and only hinted at his motivations that day. “I didn’t grow up hating anyone,” he said. “I grew up in an environment where we’re mixed with everyone.” But he came to understand, he said, “why there is such a big frustration between the Muslims overseas and the American people.”
Judge Richard M. Berman handed down the sentence in Federal District Court in Manhattan, ending the prosecution of Mr. Rahimi, who was convicted by a jury in October of setting off weapons of mass destruction and using explosives in furtherance of a violent crime.
The high-profile act of jihad-inspired terrorism that was seen in many respects as a near miss injured dozens without killing anyone.
Judge Berman expressed surprise at the dissonance between the violent journal writings and actions of the defendant who committed the bombing and the demeanor of the man facing his sentence.
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“Hearing you, Mr. Rahimi, in court, you sound reasonable enough,” the judge said. “And yet your actions are totally at odds with how you’re speaking in court. It’s really puzzling.”
Mr. Rahimi planned an attack that was simple, with devices made from household goods, and potentially lethal. On Sept. 17, 2016, he traveled to Manhattan from his home in Elizabeth, N.J., pulling suitcases on rollers with each hand. He went on to place a homemade bomb — packed into a pressure cooker and wired to a flip-phone detonator — on a stretch of the Chelsea neighborhood’s West 23rd Street, busy with pedestrians on a warm Saturday night. The blast from that device sent shrapnel flying and launched a construction waste container across the street. More than 30 people were injured, and they described that night in testimony at Mr. Rahimi’s trial.
He placed a second bomb on West 27th Street, but a passer-by on edge from the blast four blocks away noticed it and called the police, and the bomb squad took the device away without incident. Earlier that day, Mr. Rahimi had placed a bomb in a garbage can at the finish line of a United States Marine Corps charity race in Seaside Park, N.J. The race’s start time had been delayed, however, and no one was hurt when the bomb exploded.
He had planned more attacks. The day after the Chelsea explosion, Mr. Rahimi returned to New Jersey and left a backpack containing six pipe bombs in an Elizabeth, N.J., train station. One exploded after it was detonated by a police robot, but the bombs caused no injuries.
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FBI investigators working in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood after the 2016 bombing. Credit Andres Kudacki/Associated Press Mr. Rahimi was portrayed as a loner drawn to calls of jihad in online publications like Inspire.
On Tuesday, wearing a long beard and a kufi, a cap worn by many men in South Asia and parts of Africa, Mr. Rahimi complained in his statement about past harassment in airports over his traditional dress, and even before, when he did not have a beard and wore shorts “as if I’m going to the beach.”
He focused most of his brief statement on his father and a misconception that he believes had taken hold that the older man supported terrorism. “My house does not harbor any terrorist-type activities,” he said. Of his father, Mohammad Rahami, who attended Tuesday’s hearing in the rear of the gallery, he said, “He wants to give us a better future. I commend him for that.”


He mentioned the call his father made to the authorities in 2014 to report that the convicted man was behaving suspiciously. “We had our differences in life,” Mr. Rahimi said. “My father did his best to try to quell everything down.”
At this, Mr. Rahami, who spells his name slightly differently than his son, bowed his head in court and quietly sobbed.
In December, prosecutors said Mr. Rahimi had been giving other inmates access to speeches and lectures by Osama bin Laden and Anwar al-Awlaki and the same sort of bomb-making instructions from Inspire that were used as evidence at his trial. In his statement, Mr. Rahimi avoided discussing his part in these infractions, instead blaming the government for locking up the other inmates in the first place.
Of his own life, he said, “I have American friends and I also have Muslim friends.”
Judge Berman called his crimes “heinous, wanton, life-threatening” in handing down the maximum sentences for the eight crimes of which he was convicted. Mr. Rahimi already faced an automatic life sentence for one of the crimes, and Judge Berman added a second life term and, on top of them both, an additional 30 years in prison, all to be served consecutively. The redundant sentences would serve the same end — Mr. Rahimi is unlikely to ever leave prison — but could have individual practical implications should he prevail on an appeal of one or more of the convictions in the future.
He was also ordered to pay $562,803 in restitution to victims and businesses whose storefronts were mangled in the blast. The money would come out of his prison wages, should he work.
Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States attorney in Manhattan, said in a statement, “Rahimi’s conviction and sentencing are victories for New York City and our nation in the fight against terror.”
Pauline Nelson, who was injured in the bombing while driving in a car with her daughter and grandson, spoke at the end of the hearing and addressed Mr. Rahimi.
“I’m an immigrant just like you,” she said. “God forgive you, that’s all I have to say.”

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