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Suspected ISIS member arrested; FBI searches Sacramento apartment
[KCRA] Omar Ameen to be extradited on premeditated murder charges in Iraq, documents showFBI agents searched a Sacramento apartment unit Wednesday, where a suspected ISIS member was living and was wanted in connection with the killing of an Iraqi police officer, according to court documents. Omar Abdulsattar Ameen, 45, was tossed in the clink Book 'im, Mahmoud! Wednesday and is being held without bail in Sacramento County Jail. He had settled in Sacramento as a purported refugee and attempted to gain legal status in the United States, according to the Department of Justice. FBI agents began showing up about 8 a.m. at the Eastern Villa Apartments on Eastern Avenue, and agents cleared the scene at about 1:30 p.m. FBI agents, along with Sacramento County sheriff's deputies and Metro Fire personnel, were seen going in and out of apartment No. 26 and searched several vehicles at the complex. Agents were wearing jackets with the words "Joint Terrorism Task Force" in yellow letters on the back. An arrest warrant was issued for Ameen on May 16 by the Baghdad Federal al-Karkh Appellate Court after he was charged with premeditated murder, court documents show. ISIS entered the Rawah District of al-Anbar Province in Iraq and seized control of the district on June 21, 2014, preventing citizens from entering or exiting the district. The following day, a four-vehicle ISIS convoy carrying several people, including Ameen, stopped at the family home of an Iraqi police officer and opened fire, documents said. Ameen fired his weapon at the officer while the victim was on the ground, hitting him in the chest, according to court records. Soon after, a post appeared on social media celebrating the killing: "[Today] is the day to eliminate some rotten heads. Now in Rawah, the criminal Ihsan [Adbulhafiz] has been eliminated at the hands of Mujahidin." The FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force has been investigating Ameen since 2016 for suspected violations, including fraud and misuse of visa, permits and other documents. In accordance with a 1934 treaty, Iraq has requested Ameen be extradited. According to court documents, Ameen has been a member of Al Qaeda and then ISIS since 2004. He was not known to have renounced membership in either group. Ameen has reportedly undertaken numerous acts of violence on behalf of the terrorist organizations -- everything from murder to planting IEDs, records show. The FBI talked to Ameen, his father, brother and cousins, and they said he was a member of ISIS. They said it is common knowledge that Ameen was a main local figure in ISIS and was said to be one of five native Rawah families that helped found Al Quaeda in the region, according to the documents. Documents from the government of Iraq list a myriad of other offenses against Ameen: He became a financial officer for Al Qaeda in al-Anbar and took control over the military leadership in all Western areas of al-Qa'im and Rawah. In 2006, Ameen launched an attack against he army headquarters in the Al Karabilah area, where he took soldiers as prisoners and executed them at the same time, the government document shows. In his immigration application, Ameen said he was a trader in vegetables and was a truck driver in Iraq. He arrived in the U.S. in November 2014. Ameen concealed his membership in terrorist groups when he applied for refugee status in the U.S. and later when he applied for a green card in the U.S., according to the Department of Justice. Ameen stated in a 2014 refugee interview with U.S. Customs and Immigration Services in ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... that he had returned to Iraq many times. He also had a resume that said he worked in Turkey through May 2014. According to Ameen's resume prepared in 2018, Ameen listed that he was an auto mechanic in Sacramento from February 2016 until February 2018 after he worked for six months in Salt Lake City as a laborer and truck loader. Before that, Ameen's resume listed that he worked in Turkey as a "house man" and construction laborer, and as a truck driver in Baghdad from 1996 to 2006. Posted by: trailing wife 2018-08-16 |
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