Outraged members of Congress are demanding an explanation as to why senior Biden administration officials attended an event featuring a notorious and active Islamic terrorist who has killed dozens of American soldiers.
U.S. Representatives Doug Lamborn, R-Colo., Jim Banks, R-Ind., Carlos Gimenez, R-Fla., Ronny Jackson, R-Texas, and Robert Wittman, R-Va., are demanding the Biden State Department explain why senior U.S. officials attended a forum alongside Qais Hadi Sayed Hasan al-Khazali, designated by the State Department as an active Islamic terrorist currently under U.S. government sanctions.
“I am gravely concerned about the precedent this activity sets,” said Lamborn. “I insist the State Department take immediate action to ensure that its officials do not give credibility to events that feature enemies of the United States.”
“Qais Hadi Sayed Hasan al-Khazali, the terrorist prominently featured at this event attended by high-ranking U.S. Department of State officials, has served in various terrorist organizations since at least 2003 and is responsible for the death of dozens of American soldiers. He is known to have directed and coordinated the attack on American forces in Karbala on January 20, 2007 that resulted in five American soldiers dead and three wounded,” a statement from Lamborn's office reveals.
“Qais al-Khazali is also responsible for the attack on the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad on December 31, 2019. For these actions, among others, Qais al-Khazali was sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury Department on December 6, 2019 for ‘involvement in serious human rights abuse in Iraq' and designated as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist on January 3, 2020,” the statement adds.
Despite appearing at the same forum as Biden officials, Qais al-Khazali is still an active and designated terrorist and has been sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury Department.
“Currently, Qais al-Khazali is Secretary-General of Asa'id Ahl al-Haw (AAH), also known as the Khazali Network, a radical Iraqi Shi'a political party and paramilitary group that is funded, trained, and equipped by Iran's Quds Force and Hezbollah. The AAH claimed responsibility for over 6,000 attacks on U.S.-led coalition forces between 2006 and 2011, including the roadside bomb that killed the last American soldier to die before the U.S. withdrawal in November 2011. This group was labeled a foreign terrorist organization (FTO) on January 3, 2020,” the statement concludes.
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The Biden Administration forgot which side they are supposed to represent. — Apparently they are all dangerously brain-dead.
No sir. ‘They’ haven’t forgotten. ‘We’ just assume too much.
Please identify the “high-ranking” officials, at least by position.
It doesn’t matter now, it’s too far after the fact. Those handlers of Biden do as they want since they think they are accountable to no one. Just one more reason we need to purge all democrats from our government while we still have the means to do it. If we don’t, they will destroy our constitutional republic and put their version of a socialist government in it’s place.
They were picking up a check for the Biden Clan. In the old days it was called “payola”.
WHY didn’t U.S. Assassins “pick him off”?!? . . . just ASKIN’.
Straight from the obama administration list of priorities. Only answer is that biden is following orders of the obama holdovers who are still obeying obama’s playbook for ‘Hero’s of the decade’ directives. They gave bin laden a ‘hero’s burial at sea’ so that no one could ever desecrate his body as the Iraqis had against their ‘leader’ saddam hussein. And as long as a democrat is in office, EVERY terrorist taken will be treated with undeserved dignity.
If members of Congress ever TRULY get tired of being outraged, they could simply impeach and remove Biden and his cackling sidekick from office.
I guess it’s far easier being tired & outraged than being energized & honorable.