{"id":31573,"date":"2012-08-17T08:34:46","date_gmt":"2012-08-17T12:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=31573"},"modified":"2012-08-17T08:34:46","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T12:34:46","slug":"did-iraqis-on-trial-in-ky-kill-soldiers-in-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=31573","title":{"rendered":"Did Iraqis on trial in KY kill soldiers in Iraq?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Associated Press<\/a> reports that a group of Pennsylvania soldiers suspect that the two Iraqis on trial in Kentucky for planning to aid al-Qaeda in Iraq may have been responsible for the deaths of their mates while they were operating in Iraq;<\/p>\n

[Waad Ramadan Alwan] told a confidential informant working for the FBI that as part of his work he filled roadside bombs with ball bearings, nails, even gravel, and drew diagrams to show how it is done. He also bragged about repeatedly killing Americans in Iraq, saying he was very good with a sniper rifle and that his “lunch and dinner would be an American.”<\/p>\n

Alwan told an FBI informant in Bowling Green last year that prior to one Humvee explosion, he had planted improvised explosive devices near a Bayji street detour.<\/p>\n

Both the Iraqis and the soldiers described the area as the main road used by American convoys in Bayji.<\/p>\n

The Pennsylvania National Guard’s Alpha Company of the First Battalion of the 111th Infantry, which included [Staff Sgt. Joshua Hedetniemi], lost six soldiers in two separate roadside attacks in the area in August 2005.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I guess an important question would be how these two dirt balls ended up in the US;<\/p>\n

Alwan and Hammadi each immigrated to the United States in 2009 after gaining refugee status. Court records do not explain why they were granted that status. For reasons that are also unclear from court records, the FBI started a probe of Alwan in August 2010, using a confidential informant to record conversations with Alwan about a plan to send money and weapons to a fictional al-Qaida operative in Iraq.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, I think we need to get that sorted out and end the practice that led to allowing two criminals like that into our country.<\/p>\n

The Pennsylvania soldiers say that they remembered the names from their operations in Iraq and were surprised to find news accounts of their arrests;<\/p>\n

“I was a little bit worried these guys could get into our country so easily,” said Hedetniemi, who now works as a recruiter. “Luckily, these guys never got a chance to do anything stupid.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, I think the government owes us an explanation for that. I mean it’s good that we caught them and will be able to give them measure of punishment, but they shouldn’t have been here in the first place, and we need to quickly plug the holes in our policies that would allow it to happen again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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