[ May 1, 2024 ]
President Trump is shielding us from this scourge. This migrant made a “knowing and significant contribution to ISIS,” the Refugee Appeal Division ruled, noting the terror group needed his high-level expertise in auto electrical systems.
Refugee claimant, in Canada since 2015, complicit in ISIS crimes against humanity, tribunal says
A mechanic who came to Canada in 2015 has been found complicit in crimes against humanity for repairing vehicles for the so-called Islamic State, Global News has learned.
By Stewart Bell National Online Journalist, Investigative Global News April 19, 2019:
Story continues below advertisementBefore arriving in Canada and claiming refugee status, the Lebanese national made several trips to Syria to work on ISIS military vehicles and also supervised other ISIS mechanics.
As such, he made a “knowing and significant contribution to ISIS,” the Refugee Appeal Division ruled, noting the terror group needed his high-level expertise in auto electrical systems.
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The ruling means he is ineligible for refugee status, but federal officials would not say if he was detained or had been deported. Even his name was removed from the decision.
His lawyer declined to comment.
The case is a rare confirmation that a refugee claimant who successfully entered Canada had been involved with ISIS, although his past was quickly detected through security screening.
The Canadian embassy in Beirut approved his visa on May 5, 2015 after his wife’s sister, who lives in Canada, sent a letter of invitation. He made a refugee claim in September 2015.
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Three months later, federal officials intervened in his case, arguing he was disqualified from seeking refugee status because he was complicit in the crimes of ISIS.
The Immigration and Refugee Board agreed, and the decision was recently upheld by Patricia O’Connor of the Refugee Appeal Division, who rejected his claim that he had only worked for ISIS briefly and under duress.
According to the decision, the man was employed as a mechanic in Zahlé, a Lebanese city close to the Syrian border, when a customer asked him to repair vehicles at a location 30 to 40 minutes away.
He was eventually taken during the night to a hangar in a Sunni area where he was patted down for weapons. A Christian, he was forced to remove his cross and his cell phone was taken away.
Inside the hangar were 15 to 20 vehicles of the type ISIS used. When he touched one vehicle, it was still wet with blood.
Foreigners with long beards who spoke with Syrian or Iraqi accents were installing metal armor on jeeps and trucks that had no licence plates.
The vehicles had been repainted and fitted with metal bars to reinforce them “for military conflict,” according to the decision, which said he knew on his first visit that he was involved with ISIS.
Armed men escorted him repeatedly to the hangar to work on vehicles, and on three occasions he was taken across the border to Syria to do repairs. He was close enough to the fighting to see shelling.
“While ISIS had its own mechanics, he was needed to fix vehicles with problematic issues that no one else could repair,” the decision read. “He also supervised other mechanics and gave instruction on how to repair the vehicles which were used for military purposes.”
He was paid “a lot of cash,” the IRB said. “He said that they treated him well, paid him generously and trusted him to the extent that he was brought to ISIS locations in Lebanon and Syria.”
At one point, a Chinese visa was placed in his passport and he was told he was being sent to China to acquire materials, since ISIS thought “no one would suspect that a Christian would import things on their behalf.”
But the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah found out what he was doing and approached him at work, offering $1,000 a night to spy on ISIS. He said Hezbollah also threatened him.
He ended his involvement with ISIS in May 2015 and came to Canada. While he said he had no other option but to work for ISIS, the IRB rejected that.
“He returned voluntarily over and over again to work on ISIS vehicles because he did not flee or attempt to flee ISIS,” the Refugee Board wrote in its decision.
“Instead of fleeing, he returned at least four to six more times to work for ISIS before he left the country. He returned to work for ISIS even when he touched blood in the vehicle and knew it was ISIS.”
The Canada Border Services Agency is also trying to deport a Jordanian who came to British Columbia and obtained refugee status, but in 2015 began posting ISIS propaganda online.
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27 Comments
5 years ago
Is she dead yet?
5 years ago
Justina’s Canadastan.
5 years ago
Reply to
J k
while Left/liberal pro-jihadi run EU is turning into islamic hellhole with
more jihadi attacks Trump is shutting down jihadi funding that has been running for decades now https://tinyurl.com/ya4gdwt3
Left/Liberal Loons say that makes him “racist” , “islamophobe” . Guess what ?
Trump gives a damn . LOL !
5 years ago
Reply to
Suresh
CAIR and all the other Islamic terrorist organizations still operate here in the States.
5 years ago
We have an idiot lunatic prime minister Trudeau here and he invites lots of terrorists to our country. He is s total maniac not sure how he got elected but will vote him out in October. islam values and western values are mikes apart. Actually Islam has no values, only death misery pain stoning raping and child brides. I’m sure there is more.
5 years ago
religion of peace! for tolerance! for Trudeau!!
5 years ago
This beast should never be let near any car. He would know how to manipulate brakes etc. to cause vehicles to crash. He would also know how to fit explosives to the them. He should be immediately thrown out the country preferably together with the idiots who admitted him in the first place.
5 years ago
Do not call them Canadians!
5 years ago
Singled out for deportation because he is a Christian. Appears to me the evidence they have is a full confession rather than independent intelligence. An ISIS member would have dissembled.
5 years ago
Reply to
John Acord
I was thinking the same thing. How many muslums who were actually killing the kafir for allah and ISIS have been granted refugee status in Canuckastan?
5 years ago
Reply to
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
I have known a few Lebanese Christians known as Maronites and you cannot imagine the horrors and stress of being a Christian constantly threatened by Muslims. There is not one of them who would disagree that they all are evil.
5 years ago
That’s can’t be!!!!!
Sarcasm off.
5 years ago
Muslims are supposed to be peaceful and tolerant, GWB and Obama told us that too!
The Quran and the Bible are the same. Can you say, ONE WORLD RELIGION?
Sarcasm off. There are major head games happening on an organized global basis in the west.
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5 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
This sure has not worked out well for Christians in Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Turkey, Iran, Pakistan and elsewhere in the Muslim world. Is so bad you risk decapitation in Saudi Arabia for even possessing a bible.
5 years ago
Brace yourself for the next delusion.
” A clarion call came from Columbus, Ohio. Muslims in that area floated a test balloon claiming “Jesus is Muslim.” Along with other billboard messages, they sought to utilize the Lord and the Bible as recruiting propaganda to ensnare unsuspecting souls into their religion. It was a campaign of deceit. Like all false religions and cults, to add legitimacy to their religion, they incorporate Jesus. There has to be some measure of truth in order for deception to work its magic. It is, however, not the Jesus of the Bible, but a Jesus of their distorted imagination.” http://elijahmin.com/2014/04/
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5 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
Does that mean I can call them dirty goat humping followers of the pedophile Mohammed. And NOT be called islamaphobic?
Go for it!
????
5 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
Muhammad was known as the Ear and incorperated everything he heard from the Torah and the Bible into the Quran .
5 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
JUST THAT MORONIC, aren’t they???
MOOOHAMED invented the false cult hundreds of years after Jesus was born! HA! Guess that fact overwhelmed moose slimes’ first grade math skills.
5 years ago
So, literally, BLOOD ON HIS HANDS?!!!
5 years ago
I wish CTV, CBC, and other broadcasters put these to stories into their news casts. But unfortunately, that will never happen. The above broadcasters have proven they are allied with ISIS by simply not warning Canadians ISIS enemies are within Canada’s borders.
5 years ago
Will they be welcome after they rape your daughters and sisters????
5 years ago
Canada has become a haven for radicals and jihadists, it seems! 🙁
