ABC, NBC Ignore ISIS Member Arrested in U.S., Infiltrated as a Refugee

Nicholas Fondacaro | August 16, 2018
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On Wednesday, the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force raided an apartment in Sacramento, California and arrested Omar Ameen, a man wanted in Iraq on charges he murdered a police officer while flying the ISIS banner. Court documents reportedly show that he snuck into the U.S. by lying his way through the refugee vetting system, something liberals suggested was impossible. To apparently preserve that narrative, ABC and NBC had omitted the arrest from their morning and evening programs on Thursday.

The only mention of the shocking infiltration was on CBS This Morning in the form of a fleeting 27-seconds long news brief by co-anchor Gayle King who obviously brushed over how he got into the U.S.:

GAYLE KING: The Sacramento Bee reports federal agents arrested a suspected ISIS member in Northern California. 45-year-old Omar Ameen allegedly killed an Iraqi police officer back in 2014 while fighting for ISIS. He was taken into custody yesterday during a raid on an apartment complex. U.S. officials plan to extradite him to Iraq to face charges there. Ameen reportedly entered the U.S. seeking asylum as a refugee after lying about his background.

Meanwhile, on Fox News Channel’s Special Report, national correspondent William La Jeunesse went into far greater detail and addressed Ameen’s mode of infiltration.

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