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Time to Excise Kellyanne Conway From the Media - After Making Up Fake Terrorist Attack to Justify Trump’s Muslim Ban
[Photo: by Gage Skidmore / Wikimedia Commons]
In an interview with MSNBC's Chris Matthews that aired Thursday night, Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway managed to get 2 huge things wrong in a short 19-second answer.
- That the Obama administration banned Iraqi refugees from entering the U.S. for 6 months in 2011 - flatly untrue.
- More significantly, she made up a terrorist attack committed by Iraqi refugees that never happened - the "Bowling Green Massacre."
> Conway claims that "most people don't know that because it didn't get covered."
> Most people don't know about it because it didn't happen.
> In 2011, 2 Iraqi refugees - Waad Ramadan Alwan and Mohanad Shareef Hammadi - were arrested in Bowling Green, KY, on federal terrorism charges. Allegedly, they had been plotting to send money and weapons back home to Iraqi insurgents.
During the investigation, the FBI found something worrying: fingerprints from Alwan on a roadside bomb in Iraq. This suggested there was a very specific flaw in America's refugee screening process: Databases of fingerprints from Iraqi militants were not well-integrated into the broader State Department–run refugee admissions process. As a result, the Obama administration initiated a new review of all roughly 57,000 Iraqi refugees who had been recently admitted into the United States.
This process was manpower- and time-intensive, and resulted in a significant slowdown in Iraqi refugee admissions to the United States for 6 months. But it was not a ban, as Conway, Trump, and many in the conservative media claimed: Refugees from Iraq entered the United States in all six months.
SO, TO RECAP:
- No one was killed by refugees in Bowling Green.
- There was never even a plan to kill anyone in Bowling Green.
- There was no ban on Iraqi refugee admissions afterwards.