The officials who vet migrants are bound as a matter of policy to ignore that there is any such thing as an Islamic jihad, so vetting failures of this kind are bound to happen.
“Egyptian Student Added to CIS National Security Vetting Failures Database,” by Todd Bensman, Center for Immigration Studies, January 10, 2025:
An 18-year-old Egyptian student at Virginia’s George Mason University who now stands charged with multiple terrorism offenses related to a mass casualty plot on Israel’s consulate in New York is the latest addition to the Center for Immigration Studies National Security Vetting Failures Database. The entry brings the total number of analyzed failure cases to 50.
In March 2023, the Center published the database collection to draw “remedial attention” to ongoing government vetting failures lest they “drift from the public mind and interest of lawmakers, oversight committee members, media, and homeland security practitioners who would otherwise feel compelled to demand process reforms”, according to an explanatory Center report titled “Learning from our Mistakes”.
The FBI arrested Abdullah Ezzeldin Taha Mohamed Hassan on December 17, 2024, for allegedly plotting a mass casualty attack on the Israeli consulate in New York. The case is pending in the Eastern District of Virginia.
Hassan, an Egyptian National, entered the United States in July 2022 as a juvenile and lived in Falls Church, Va., although as of January 2025 the visa granted for him to enter had not been publicly reported.
As a juvenile, he may have entered with parents or relatives on a temporary non-immigrant visa, such as a tourist visa or a J-2 student exchange visa, or even on an F-1 student visa, as there is no age limit for student visas. The U.S. State Department would, however, approve any of these visa types and conduct a personal interview of minors older than 14, like Hassan, who was 15 at the time.
However it was that Hassan entered, perhaps even if he illegally crossed a land border and claimed asylum, he was clearly already radicalized as an Islamic extremist, a circumstance that visa adjudicators or even federal law enforcement agents at the border, apparently could have discovered in his online social media accounts.
This is knowable because, within weeks or months of the juvenile Hassan’s 2022 entry, his social media accounts alerted the FBI, which sent agents to interview him “due, in part, to Hassan’s support for ISIS online”, the recent charging documents said.
Although no charges were filed in 2022, at some point soon after the FBI interviews, the U.S. government reportedly decided a mistake had been made. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) put Hassan into deportation proceedings, which were pending by the time he enrolled in George Mason University (GMU) to study information technology, probably in 2023 or 2024.
Hassan was still an enrolled active student in the summer and fall of 2024 when FBI agents were again actively investigating him undercover and saw him on the GMU campus, an agent affidavit said.
Again, Hassan’s online activities on several X social media accounts had drawn FBI attention. The bureau sent in an undercover agent online upon discovering that Hassan, who portrayed himself as an admirer of Osama bin Ladin and ISIS branches in Afghanistan and West Africa, was openly fantasizing about killing infidels and wanted to martyr himself in a mass-casualty attack.
Court documents reveal examples of Hassan’s alleged posts of him musing about killing Jews and, in one case, noted that a football player’s forehead was a “sniper’s dream”.
In one X account, Hassan boastfully shared an AI analysis of his profile that stated: “Based on our AI agent’s analysis of your tweets, you are a young radical Islamist extremist who is obsessed with jihad and violence against perceived enemies. Your tweets suggest a deep-seated hatred and intolerance towards those of other faiths, particularly Jews.”
“Yep I am an extremist,” Hassan later posted….
mgoldberg says
How many of those 50 ‘failure cases’ were Muslims. How many were Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus, bahai. One might make a correlation there if we had those 50 cases outlined by belief system. And we might extrapolate how many more have been unvetted and by which groups. It would make for an eye opening discourse I think.
gravenimage says
Good questions, mgoldberg–I think we all know how the vast majority of these cases would turn out…
Puddleglum says
Five minutes alone.
I’m begging you.
bagsgroove says
We don’t need any more ugly muslims in our countries !
Wellington says
Book him, Dano.
somehistory says
“radical Islamist extremist ” better known as *devout mozlum.*
If they really wanted to do what is the right thing, they wouldn’t allow any mozlums to enter. No visas of any kind…not tourist, not student…nothing issued to any of them.
And if any enter illegally, when found, would boot them out.
James Lincoln says
somehistory,
I would also support a total muslim ban regarding entry into the United States.
That being said, TRUE apostates who have been expertly vetted – and can add value to our country – could be admitted on limited case-by-case basis.
somehistory says
James, if they had someone who has been an ex mozlum for some time do the vetting, it might work.
mozlums lie, as you know. So they could lie about being ex;; but someone who has actually left islam might have enough inside to tell when the mozlum was lying.
James Lincoln says
100% agree, somehistory.
gravenimage says
Agreed, Somehistory.
somehistory says
“”Joe Biden and his administration have viciously targeted parents at school board meetings, pro-life Americans, Catholics, and Trump supporters—designating some as ‘domestic terrorists’—instead of catching actual terrorists and keeping them out of the country.” Michael Bars, a former Trump DHS deputy assistant secretary and White House senior communications adviser, told Fox News Digital. “In fact they’ve been helping potential threats move in, waiving national security safeguards to admit individuals who’ve provided varying degrees of material support to Islamic terrorist organizations in extraordinary numbers.
“Islamic terrorism is not ‘homegrown’—it’s been imported to the U.S. through our broken immigration system and open border. The Biden administration has not only failed its duty to address this rising threat, but precipitated it,” he said.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/biden-dhs-exempted-thousands-of-immigrants-from-terror-related-entry-restrictions-in-fy-2024/ar-BB1rqK3c?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=e45e7aa474fc4419a58757d84be1caef&ei=20
somehistory says
“Capitol Police Reveal ‘Biggest Threat’ To Donald Trump’s Inauguration
Capitol Police in Washington, D.C., say that “the biggest threat” ahead of Inauguration Day on January 20 is individuals who could plan to commit violent acts.”
some thug tried to get into the capitol building carrying knives and machete. another set his own car on fire, according to this report.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/capitol-police-reveal-biggest-threat-to-donald-trump-s-inauguration/vi-BB1ropsb?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=e37b067ba9ef4862b7d50282f44f6ff0&ei=30
40 rounds says
It is quite obvious to me that our governments in the West hate their own people. Mark Steyn today reminded us about the massive amount of Islamic immigration to western countries after 9-11. Absolutely shocking.
somehistory says
It’s akin to a doctor who wanted to give his brother the undertaker a lot of customers, and treated infections without ever washing his hands before routine exams.
They saw what could be accomplished by fewer than 20 and envisioned what awful harm millions of them could do.
Those who claim that some in the government had a hand in 9-11 may not have been wrong, after all.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Where is Mark Steyn these days? I lost track of him after his heart attacks, and after he parted company w/ GBNews. Does he have his own podcast somewhere?
R G says
Mark Steyn has his channel steynonline.com where he writes articles and has a show. Among other things still involved in the Mann lawsuit and pointing out the British government’s failures
James Lincoln says
Thanks for the link, R G.
Below is a video from Mark Steyn addressing the UK grooming / rape scandal:
https://www.steynonline.com/mark-steyn-show/14892/the-shame-of-england
gravenimage says
Here is Mark Steyn’s website–a brave Anti-Jihadist, very talented and also funny, despite the often grim topics.
https://www.steynonline.com/
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Evidently, this is one job where we could replace the humans who do the vetting w/ AI, and it’ll be an instant improvement
somehistory says
they call the guys who do the work “intelligence.” but ‘artificial intelligence” is evidently what caught him.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
This is one case where artificial intelligence trumps natural stupidity
somehistory says
Years ago, there was an ad for cheese. The voiceover said in a part of the ad, “this is imitation nu cheese.” (attempting to lengthen the n sound)
that’s how I think of artificial intelligence…it’s “imitation intelligence.” But this time, better than the real deal. Sometimes, it seems the “intelligence community” isn’t so intelligent.
Billy says
Our police and intelligence services fail to understand Islam and its Muslims, and the Non-Muslims suffer as a result. Islam is a Muslim Terrorist Organization. Specifically, Islam is a Muslim Terrorist Ideology and Criminal Organization of discrimination, segregation, supremacy, genocide, polygamy, deceit, hatred, incitement, sedition, rape, terrorism, and violence against all Non-Muslims as taught in the Quran.
Islam and its murderous god, Allah, demand a Muslim war against unbelievers because Non-Muslims are criminals under Islam as Allah in Qur’an 8:39 says, “And engage in war with them[Non-Muslims] until there will not be sedition and the religion will be completely to Allah…”
Islam promotes a terroristic war against unbelievers when Allah in Qur’an 49:15 says, “Surely the believers are only those who believed in Allah and his messenger. They do not doubt, and they performed JIHAD with THEIR MONEY AND THEIR LIVES for the sake of Allah. Those are the truthful.”
Allah promises Heavenly Paradise for acts of killing when Quran 9:111 says, “Surely Allah has purchased from the believers[Muslims] their souls and their money so that they may have the garden[Heavenly Paradise]. They engage in war for the sake of Allah, so they kill and are killed…”
bagsgroove says
If this guy wants to be a martyr, they should oblige him and let the firing squad get him on his way to hell.
andy says
Vetting is not required. All Muslims are mentally ill. They must be barred from entering America and all non-Muslim countires. Period.
Ralph says
It took me a while to recall where I’d seen this guy before.
He played a banjo int the film, “Deliverance”, didn’t he?
gravenimage says
Muslim university student who plotted jihad massacre is latest failure of officials who vet migrants
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Grimly, this vetting is an absolute joke–we’ve seen this over and over again.
somehistory says
mayorkis has made “exceptions” for thousands of mozlums who have been part….and likely still are…of terror groups, allowing them to come into the country. Thousands who are terrorists and he knew they were terrorists when he allowed them to come in.
And they are still here.
No Taqiyya says
All it takes is one look to detect the sinister vibe in his face and mouth. The dead fish look of the evil eye and the downward bend of his mouth denotes a contemptuous attitude.
What kind of officials are getting hired to vet migrants? DEI hires would not be surprising in the least.
No Taqiyya says
All it takes is one look to detect the sinister vibe in his face and mouth. The dead fish look of the evil eye and the downward bend of his mouth denotes a contemptuous attitude.
What kind of officials are getting hired to vet migrants? DEI hires would not be surprising in the least.