Thread: At Least 100 Afghan Refugees Flagged on Terror Watch List, One With ISIS Ties

At Least 100 Afghan Refugees Flagged on Terror Watch List, One With ISIS Ties

Richard Moorhead
Aug 25,2021



Reports have emerged revealing that as many as 100 of the Afghan nationals airlifted from Kabul in the wake of the country’s capitulation to the Taliban are on a Department of Defense watchlist for possible terrorist sympathies and activities.

Defense One reported on Tuesday that 100 of the evacuees were flagged through the use of biometric identification systems. It’s possible that the terror persons of interest were previously detained in Afghan government or American jails, where their information would’ve been collected by authorities.

One evacuee is being detained for further questioning in Qatar, with American authorities suspicious of their possible involvement with the Islamic State’s “Khorasan” affiliate in Afghanistan. The Islamic State is a fierce enemy of the Taliban, seeing the Pashtun group as insufficient in its adherence to Sharia law and an obstacle to its goal of ruling Afghanistan by itself.

Defense One’s reporting on the development was published when a mere 7,000 persons were evacuated from Kabul. Since then, President Biden has bragged about moving more than 70,000 people from Afghanistan to various third countries such as Qatar. It’s almost certain that many more potential terrorists have eeked through the system, many of whom haven’t been logged into biometric ID systems by the United States government.

The evacuees airlifted from the Kabul airport are not only overwhelmingly citizens of Afghanistan- as opposed to American citizens stranded in the country- but they’re predominantly young, fighting-age men, those who one might expect to resist the Taliban offensive in combat. Critics of the refugee resettlement operations have questioned as to why evacuation operations don’t seem to prioritize women and children, who stand threatened by the Taliban takeover of their country.

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Report: Up to 100 Afghans Seeking Resettlement in U.S. ‘Flagged’ by Terrorism Watch Lists

by JOHN BINDER 25 Aug 2021

Up to 100 Afghans evacuated from Afghanistan and seeking to resettle in the United States have been “flagged” by Defense Department terrorism watch lists, according to a new report.

As President Joe Biden’s administration looks to fast-track tens of thousands of Afghans into the U.S. interior over the next few weeks, Defense Department officials are reportedly sounding the alarm over the potential for fraud.

An official, involved with the vetting and screening process taking place in third safe countries for Afghans seeking resettlement in the U.S., told Defense One that “up to 100 of the 7,000 Afghans evacuated as prospective recipients” of Special Immigrant Visas (SIVs have been “flagged” as “potential matches to intelligence agency watch lists.”

Another official said that in “most cases” the Afghans were “cleared by follow-on screening” for resettlement in the U.S.
Defense One reports:

Moreover, the Defense Department’s Automated Biometric Identification System has flagged up to 100 of the 7,000 Afghans evacuated as prospective recipients of Special Immigration Visas as potential matches to intelligence agency watch lists, a second official said. [Emphasis added]
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“There’s certainly been a number of them” who triggered alerts, requiring agents to pull those evacuees aside for further screening, the first official said. In most cases, those Afghans — many of whom have already been vetted through the special immigrant visa process — were cleared by follow-on screening. [Emphasis added]

An official told Defense One that most of the Afghans “flagged” as potential matches to individuals on terrorism watch lists are being screened and vetted at the Al Udeid Air Base in Doha, Qatar, but stated that he “can’t rule out” such terrorism flags not occurring at other bases.

On the ground in the third safe countries, officials said Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents are having to utilized”old tech” that “they don’t know how” to use and complained that there are not enough agents deployed to aid in proper vetting.

This week, NBC News detailed how fraud is already occurring within the massive Afghanistan-to-U.S. resettlement effort by the Biden administration.

At the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, State Department officials said there have been five cases where Afghans attempted to use fraudulent American passports to try to get on flights bound for the U.S. The passports, the officials said, did not belong to the Afghans. The report stated:

The U.S. mission team reported at least five cases of Afghans who presented U.S. passports that didn’t belong to them, according to the Sunday dispatch from the Afghanistan Task Force, highlighting fraud concerns and complicating the process of screening people to enter the airport.

Though Biden has repeatedly suggested that Afghans are being fully vetted and screened outside the U.S., thousands are arriving each day who have not yet completed their immigration processing.

Afghans still in the application phase of their processing are being relocated to Fort Bliss in Texas, Fort Lee in Virginia, Fort McCoy in Wisconsin, and Fort Dix in New Jersey.

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