- On Sean Hannity’s Fox News program Wednesday night, terror expert Steve Emerson cited sources saying Abdul Rahman Ali Alharbi, the Saudi national who was briefly named a “person of interest” in the Boston Marathon bombings, is being deported on Tuesday.
- Thursday morning, Glenn Beck revealed on radio that TheBlaze was informed by sources that the Saudi national’s visa had been revoked and he was, in fact, going to be deported on “security and related grounds.”
- Among other things, sources told TheBlaze that the Saudi national had ties to a well-connected Saudi family and that his deportation was set to be framed as a “voluntary” departure to be with his family.
- A file, called an “event,” was started on him three days ago.
- While discussing the issue on radio, TheBlaze’s Chief Content Officer Joel Cheatwood revealed that the government is now considering not deporting Ali Alharbi.
UPDATE VI (12:50 pm ET):
Homeland Security Secretary Janet
Napolitano had a fiery exchange with Rep. Jeff Duncan during a House
hearing Thursday morning over reports that Al Alharbi is being
considered for deportation.
Napolitano refused to entertain a
question regarding if it would be “negligence” to deport someone who
just days ago was a person of interest.
“I’m not going to answer that
question,” she shot back after being pressed by Duncan and denying any
knowledge of such a plan. “That question is so full with misstatements
and misapprehensions that it is not worthy of an answer.”
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/04/18/report-saudi-national-ruled-out-as-suspect-in-boston-marathon-bombings-to-be-deported-on-national-security-grounds-next-week/
Sen. Rand Paul in a radio interview
with Glenn Beck on Thursday said “we’ll definitely look into” reports
that a Saudi national, who was briefly labeled a “person of interest”
by law enforcement, has been cleared for deportation despite reports
that the student may be somehow connected to the Boston bombings.
“From a general perspective, we need to
have a more scrutiny on the student visas,” the Kentucky Republican
said. “We need to know where the students are. Are they attending
school? We need to do extensive background checks on people coming to
visit us.”
“Because the 19 hijackers on 9/11,” he
continues, “several of them were here on … student visas, and were not
obeying even the rules of the student visa program.”
“Had we been paying attention we may
well have sent some of these students back home because they weren’t
attending school,” he added.
The U.S. should “get a handle on where
people are,” Paul said earlier in the interview while discussing the
student visa program, adding that we should “have more scrutiny on these
students when they arrive.”
“We’ll definitely look into it,” he
said of the Saudi national. “Not knowing the details of what’s going on
in Boston, we need to have more scrutiny on student visas.”
Watch the interview here [Saudi comments come at the 05:24 mark]:
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/04/18/rand-paul-on-saudi-national-reports-well-definitely-look-into-it/
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