FBI Agents: Dozens of Suspected Terrorists May Have Been Mistakenly Let Into the US
Two Al Qaeda terrorists were found to be living as refugees in Kentucky in 2009
Several dozen suspected terrorist bombmakers, including some believed to have targeted American troops, may have mistakenly been allowed to move to the United States as war refugees, according to FBI agents investigating the remnants of roadside bombs recovered from Iraq and Afghanistan.
The discovery in 2009 of two al Qaeda-Iraq terrorists living as refugees in Bowling Green, Kentucky—who later admitted in court that they'd attacked U.S. soldiers in Iraq—prompted the bureau to assign hundreds of specialists to an around-the-clock effort aimed at checking its archive of 100,000 improvised explosive devices collected in the war zones, known as IEDs, for other suspected terrorists' fingerprints.
