Homeland Security

[Soldier4Christ]

Last decade, Jaghlit sent two letters accompanying donations – one for $10,000, the other for $5,000 – from the SAAR Foundation to Sami al-Arian, now a convicted terrorist. In each letter, according to a federal affidavit, "Jaghlit instructed al-Arian not to disclose the contribution publicly or to the media."

Investigators suspect the funds were intended for Palestinian terrorists via a U.S. front called WISE, which at the time employed an official who personally delivered a satellite phone battery to Osama bin Laden. The same official also worked for Jaghlit's group.

In addition, Jaghlit donated a total of $37,200 to the Holy Land Foundation, which prosecutors say is a Hamas front. Jaghlit subsequently was named an unindicted co-conspirator in the ongoing case.

Abdurahman Alamoudi: Another CAIR director, he is serving 23 years in federal prison for plotting terrorism. Alamoudi, who was caught on tape complaining bin Laden hadn't killed enough Americans in the U.S. embassy bombings in Africa, was one of al-Qaida's top fund-raisers in America, according to the U.S. Treasury Department.

Nihad Awad: For the first time, wiretap evidence from the Holy Land case puts CAIR's executive director at a Philadelphia meeting of Hamas leaders and activists that was secretly recorded by the FBI. Participants allegedly hatched a plot to disguise payments to Hamas terrorists as charitable giving.

During the meeting, according to FBI transcripts, Awad was recorded discussing the propaganda effort. He mentions Ghassan Dahduli, whom he worked with at the time at the Islamic Association for Palestine, another Hamas front. Both were IAP officers. Dahduli's name also was listed in the address book of bin Laden's personal secretary, Wadi al-Hage, who is serving a life sentence in prison for his role in the U.S. embassy bombings. Dahduli, an ethnic-Palestinian like Awad, was deported to Jordan after 9/11 for refusing to cooperate in the terror investigation.

Awad's and Dahduli's phone numbers are listed in a Muslim Brotherhood document seized by federal investigators revealing "important phone numbers" for the "Palestine Section" of the Brotherhood in America. The court exhibit shows Hamas fugitive Mousa Abu Marzook listed on the same page with Awad.

Omar Ahmad: U.S. prosecutors also named CAIR's founder and chairman emeritus as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land case. Ahmad too was placed at the Philly meeting, FBI special agent Lara Burns testified at the trial. Prosecutors also designated him as a member of the Muslim Brotherhood's "Palestine Committee" in America. Ahmad, like his CAIR partner Awad, is ethnic-Palestinian.

(Though both Ahmad and Awad were senior leaders of IAP, the Hamas front, neither of their biographical sketches posted on CAIR's website mentions their IAP past.)

Nabil Sadoun: A current CAIR board member, Sadoun has served on the board of the United Association for Studies and Research, which investigators believe to be a key Hamas front in America. In fact, Sadoun co-founded UASR with Hamas leader Marzook. The Justice Department added UASR to the list of unindicted co-conspirators in the Holy Land case.

Mohamed Nimer: CAIR's current research director also served as a board director for UASR, the strategic arm for Hamas in the U.S.

(Tellingly, CAIR neglects to mention Nimer's and Sadoun's roles in UASR in their bios.)

Rafeeq Jaber: A founding director of CAIR, Jaber was the long-time president of the Islamic Association for Palestine. In 2002, a federal judge found that "the Islamic Association for Palestine has acted in support of Hamas." In his capacity as IAP chief, Jaber praised Hezbollah attacks on Israel. He also served on the board of a radical mosque in the Chicago area.

Rabith Hadid: The CAIR fund-raiser was a founder of the Global Relief Foundation, which after 9/11 was blacklisted by Treasury for financing al-Qaida and other terror groups. Its assets were frozen in December 2001. Hadid was arrested on terror-related charges and deported to Lebanon in 2003.

Siraj Wahhaj: A member of CAIR's board of advisers, Wahhaj was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. The radical Brooklyn imam was close to convicted terrorist Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, and defended him during his trial.

Randall "Ismail" Royer: The former CAIR communications specialist and civil-rights coordinator is serving 20 years in prison in connection with the Virginia Jihad Network, which he led while employed by CAIR at its Washington headquarters. The group trained to kill U.S. soldiers overseas, cased the FBI headquarters, and cheered the space shuttle Columbia tragedy. Al-Qaida operative Ahmed Abu Ali, convicted of plotting to assassinate President Bush, was among those who trained with Royer's Northern Virginia cell.

Bassam Khafagi: Another CAIR official, Khafagi was arrested in 2003 while serving as CAIR's director of community affairs. He pleaded guilty to charges of bank and visa fraud stemming from a federal counterterror probe of his leadership role in the Islamic Assembly of North America, which has supported al-Qaida and advocated suicide attacks on America. He was sentenced to 10 months in prison and deported to his native Egypt.

    Ghassan Elashi: One of CAIR's founding directors, he was convicted in 2004 of illegally shipping high-tech goods to terror state Syria, and is serving 80 months in prison. He's also charged with providing material support to Hamas in the Holy Land Foundation trial. He was chairman of the charity, which provided seed capital to CAIR. Elashi is related to Hamas leader Marzook.

     Hamza Yusuf: The FBI investigated the CAIR board member after 9/11, because just two days before the attacks, he made an ominous prediction to a Muslim audience.

      "This country is facing a terrible fate and the reason for that is because this country stands condemned," Yusuf warned. "It stands condemned like Europe stood condemned because of what it did. And lest people forget, Europe suffered two world wars after conquering the Muslim lands."

CAIR, which receives financial backing from Saudi and Emirati royalty, denies charges that it has a secret agenda to Islamize America. But a Muslim Brotherhood document declassified in the Holy Land case reveals that CAIR's parent was among Muslim organizations enlisted in a secret plot to destroy the American system from within and eventually take over the country.

Written early last decade in Arabic, the manifesto lays bare the subversive role of CAIR's forerunner, the Islamic Association for Palestine, and other Muslim groups in America to carry out a "grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and sabotaging its miserable house by the hands of the believers, so that it is eliminated and Allah's religion is made victorious over all other religions."

CAIR's founder Ahmad, while claiming to be a moderate and patriotic American, last decade told a group of Muslims in Northern California that they are in America to help assert Islam's rule over the country.

"Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant," a local reporter quoted him as saying, adding, "The Koran, the Muslim book of scripture, should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth."

Ahmad insists he was misquoted. However, an FBI wiretap transcript quotes Ahmad agreeing with terrorist suspects gathered last decade at the secret Philly meeting to "camouflage" their true intentions.

He compared it to the head fake in basketball. "This is like one who plays basketball: He makes a player believe that he is doing this, while he does something else," Ahmad said. "I agree with you. Like they say, politics is a completion of war."

What's more, Hooper, CAIR's communications director, also has expressed his wish to overturn the U.S. system of government in favor of an "Islamic" state.

"I wouldn't want to create the impression that I wouldn't like the government of the United States to be Islamic sometime in the future," Hooper said in a 1993 interview with the Minneapolis Star Tribune. "But I'm not going to do anything violent to promote that. I'm going to do it through education."

Though conceding he made the remark, Hooper argues that he's never advocated violence. He says he and Muslims like him should work instead through the media and use "education" to help turn America into an Islamic state.

[Soldier4Christ]

Islamic Fifth Column Getting More Stronger And More Active

The only hate crime here is the hate that these islamists are pushing against the people of the U.S. Unfortunately there are too many that don't see what is coming at them. It is a run away freight train barreling down on them with no way to get out of the way.

The more that they win in such as actions as this the more determined and bold they are getting in their actions. These islamists are getting exactly what they want ...  people that are afraid to tell the truth about them. It won't be long before they have their foothold so strong that it will be far too late to stop them.

[Soldier4Christ]

Marine Captain Joins FBI Agent in Admitting Immigration Frauds


A Marine Corps officer from Michigan pleaded guilty Tuesday to conspiracy to commit citizenship and passport fraud in a case related to a similar plea in November by FBI agent Nada Nadim Prouty.

Prouty entered her own guilty plea Nov. 13 to charges of fraudulently obtaining her citizenship, and using her illegally acquired status to attain employment with both the FBI and CIA. Now Samar Khalil Spinelli, 39, admitted she conspired with Prouty and Elfat El Aouar to commit the immigration-related frauds. El Aouar is the wife of Michigan restaurateur Talal Chahine, who is wanted for tax evasion in connection with a scheme to conceal more than $20 million in cash. Some of that money allegedly was funneled to Hizballah.

Chahine owns a series of popular restaurants in Michigan called "La Shish."

This is the third guilty plea in the case. El Aouar pleaded guilty last week to entering into her own sham marriage for immigration purposes in 1990 before she married Chahine. El Aouar is Prouty's sister.

According to her plea agreement, Spinelli came to the U.S. from Lebanon in 1989 on a student visa. A year later, she married a St. Clair Shores, Mich. man to obtain permanent U.S. residency. Spinelli paid Jean Paul Deladurantaye to marry her, but they never lived together or had any real relationship, the agreement said. Spinelli did become a citizen, however, then filed for divorce in August 1999. The divorce papers claimed Spinelli and Deladurantaye had "lived and cohabited together as husband and wife."

In fact, Spinelli, originally named Samar Khalil Nabbouh, lived with Prouty during her marriage.

Spinelli then arranged for Prouty to have her own sham marriage with Deladurantaye's brother Chris. "Spinelli and Prouty were thus technically sisters-in-law through dual fraudulent marriages, while continuing to reside together in Taylor, Michigan," a release from the U.S. Attorney's Office in Detroit said.

As a citizen, Spinelli signed up as a commissioned officer in the United States Marine Corps in 1997. While in training at the Marine Corps Basic School in Quantico, Va., Spinelli helped Prouty's application to join the FBI by providing a reference. This is considered fraudulent because Spinelli failed to mention the sham marriage, which would have ruled Prouty out of the FBI.

Spinelli, now a Marine captain, was stationed in Japan and in her second tour of combat in Iraq, when she was pulled out to answer the fraud accusations.

Prouty also worked at the CIA and used FBI computers to run searches on herself, Al Aouar and Chahine - her sister and her brother in law - without consent.

The crimes carry a maximum five year prison sentence. Guidelines indicate Spinelli could face 6 to 12 months in prison.

[Soldier4Christ]

 Lawsuit challenges profiling at airports

The top official in charge of fighting racial profiling for the American Civil Liberties Union says he was the victim of profiling at the Boston airport, and he has gone to federal court to challenge a screening technique that relies on suspicious behavior to identify potential terrorists.

King Downing said he was stopped and questioned by state police in October 2003 after arriving on a flight to attend a meeting on racial profiling.

Downing sued the Massachusetts Port Authority, which operates the airport, and Massachusetts State Police, alleging they violated his constitutional right against unreasonable search. A trial in the case began Monday in U.S. District Court.

Downing, who is black and wears a short beard, said in his lawsuit that he was stopped by a state trooper and asked to show identification after he left the gate area and made a phone call in the terminal.

When he declined, Downing said, he was told to leave the airport, but was then stopped again. He was surrounded by four state troopers and told that he was under arrest for failing to produce identification.

Downing, an attorney who serves as national coordinator of the ACLU's Campaign Against Racial Profiling, said after he agreed to show his driver's license, the troopers asked to see his airline ticket. He was then allowed to leave, and no charges were filed against him.

In his lawsuit, Downing alleges the behavioral screening system used at Logan International Airport encourages racial profiling. His lawsuit seeks unspecified damage and a ruling to declare the screening system unconstitutional.

Downing was stopped "for no apparent reasons other than his appearance," said Peter Krupp, one of his attorneys. "He knew his rights, and he knew he had done nothing wrong."

In 2002, about a year after terrorists launched the Sept. 11 attacks by hijacking two planes from Logan, the airport began a program called "Behavior Assessment Screening System," which allows police to question passengers whose behavior appears suspicious. Logan was the first airport in the country to use the system.

The Transportation Security Administration has rolled out a similar system at more than 40 of the nation's largest airports. The TSA would not reveal what kinds of behavior authorities look for, but officials at Logan have previously said suspicious activity includes loitering without luggage, wearing heavy clothes on a hot day and watching security methods at the airport.

Logan officials say race played no role in the decision to question Downing. The first trooper to ask Downing for identification was black, and three of the four officers who arrived later were also black, according to court documents. The first trooper said he became suspicious when he saw Downing watching him.

Airport officials insisted behavior-pattern recognition helps strengthen security and does not involve racial profiling.

"We welcome the opportunity to defend the program in court," said Matthew Brelis, a spokesman for the Massachusetts Port Authority, which operates the airport.

Critics say the behavioral-recognition technique carries an inherent risk of racial profiling.

"Done right, it is based on behavior. Done wrong, it is based on physical characteristics, superficial characteristics," said Bruce Schneier, chief technology officer at the security firm BT Counterpane. "Unfortunately, it's easy to do it wrong."

[Soldier4Christ]

No profiling here. He acted suspiciously, was asked for identification, refuse to give identification, refused to leave the airport as told so then he was arrested. Being black or muslim does not give a person extra rights irregardless what some may think.

[nChrist]

I never cease to be amazed about how far political correctness will go with LIES and the abuse of certain terms (i.e. profiling). "Profiling" has been so misused and abused that nobody knows what it means these days, so it must be bad. Racial or ethnic "Profiling" is much different than "Criminal Profiling". "Profiling" is such an abused term that the law enforcement community should stop using this term at all. Maybe they should go back to using the very old terms like "Reasonable Suspicion, Reasonable Grounds, Probable Cause". Example: what set of facts and circumstances would cause a reasonable person to SUSPECT that a person was about to commit a crime or had just committed a crime? This is the basic foundation for crime prevention and criminal apprehension. There isn't anything unreasonable about it at all. It's called the "Reasonable Man Doctrine" in many courts in this part of the world.

Let's give a few examples, even though some very reasonable examples have already been given. 1 - There's been a jail break at ABC and officers are looking for five escapees. A reasonable man or woman looks in their back yard and sees a person hiding in the bushes - wearing a black and white striped outfit with a label of "ABC County Jail". What might that reasonable person think about the person hiding in the bushes? Does this have anything at all to do with race or anything else deemed to be unfair? Does this reasonable person need to call their lawyer and ask if it's OK to call the police and report the person hiding in their bushes? NO - Let's get real! ---------- OK, the next one is going to be MUCH harder:  2 - You are the reasonable person looking out the front window of your home and watch hours of activity on the street corner. For some unknown reason, many cars keep stopping at the street corner to speak with a person standing there. You see what you think is money being passed out of the car and the person on the corner handing them something too small for you to even see. The cars keep coming for hours, and you see something similar over and over again. You've been reasonable and already know the person on the corner isn't wearing a Girl Scout outfit and isn't selling cookies. You've watched this person stuff money in his pocket many times, and you've seen him apparently handing something too small to see to the people in the cars. As a reasonable person, what do you think that you're watching? Would you need a degree in Criminology to think that you were watching the illegal sales of drugs? NO! - and neither do the police. Anyone with common sense would think the same thing, and there isn't any flaw in this thinking. It has nothing to do with race, rather crime that is occurring right in front of you. Does the color or nationality of the person standing on the street corner have anything to do with this? NO!

Many types of criminal behavior are more difficult to explain, but they still go back to the "Reasonable Man Doctrine". It just takes more time and effort to explain to the reasonable man and woman sitting in the jury box. Many crimes involve elaborate strategies and behaviors. "Criminal Profiling" is a science based upon known and cataloged strategies and behaviors of criminals over a long period of time. Every crime has an "M.O." (Method of Operation), and law enforcement has studied these methods for many years. The M.O. is part of the Criminal Profile. This information is used to prevent crime and catch criminals who have already committed crimes. Many dedicated professionals in law enforcement do Criminal Profiling full time. Criminal Profiling is always a valuable tool that is used to finally stop and catch serial criminals (i.e. murderers, rapists). Every tiny piece of information makes a statement of some sort about the specific criminal, and this is why so many tiny details are collected and recorded. There is an important reason for every question.

Please let me make one point for the benefit of many people who are probably confused about the term, "Profiling". Being a Criminal Profiler is an honorable and most necessary profession. Bombers and terrorists are just like other criminals in that they do have "methods of operation" that are recognized. They obviously have strategies and behaviors that are used to complete their horrific acts. Average people can recognize many of these strategies and behaviors if they know what to look for. There is nothing wrong with Criminal Profiling. Criminal Profiling is nothing more than recognizing the behaviors of criminals. More sophisticated or professional criminals have advanced behaviors that are also recognized, and then you advance into the complex behaviors of sociopaths and psychopaths. This is a criminal science and has nothing to do with trying to pick on someone because of the color of their skin, ethnicity, nationality, etc. So, please don't confuse Criminal Profiling with something bad. Racial Profiling is bad, but CRIMINAL PROFILING is good.

[Soldier4Christ]

The ACLU and organizations like that have made the word profiling into a dirty word in the legal system. You said that the word profiling should not be used and in my area that is the case now. They use other terms such as mind-set as well as the other terms you mentioned but go to great lengths to avoid the word profiling especially when dealing with the media or lawyers.

 

[nChrist]

Pastor Roger,

When I hear the term, "Criminal Profiling", I think about the wonderful Criminal Behavioral Science Unit in Quantico, Virginia. I say "Wonderful" because I know that they are involved in nearly all of the worst criminal cases in this country - either before the criminal is caught or after. Their work is intense and extremely professional.

Truthfully, I'm only aware of a tiny number of cases ever in the area of racial profiling from the police. They really were isolated cases, but they had a horrendous impact on the entire profession. There used to be 8 to 11 million contacts per day between the police and the public in America. The impact of just 1 bad contact is amazing. On the other side of the coin, I can testify to the fact that the race card is many times falsely used. The case of the 6 Muslims on the airliner is a gross example. We must never allow a ridiculous case like this to effect common sense crime prevention and PUBLIC SAFETY. Whatever term is used, law enforcement and citizens must not be restricted in the use of common sense for survival.

I want to go back to the 6 Muslims on the airliner for a moment. Their behavior was outrageous on an airliner, and the appropriate, common sense actions were taken. Them being offended by those appropriate actions should be ZERO concern. They either need to learn how to behave properly or be banned from air travel. They acted like idiots and were treated appropriately. The airlines should only have to tolerate them once, and they've already had their once. I would have somewhat different thinking had they been 6 mental patients being transported with the appropriate adult supervision, but they would get only ONCE also. Other people also have rights. Idiots who can't be controlled appropriately will simply have to use other modes of transportation. Realistically, we should care less about whether they claim to be offended or not. My wife, mother, and I will be on an airline the 23rd of this month, and I can tell you now that we will be good little boys and girls. I can also tell you with certainty that I will report or handle suspicious activity with ZERO concern about any possible offense or reprisal.

Maybe we need some new criminal charges for high profile cases like airlines. I'll be happy to write it - maybe something like ,"Impersonating a Human in Public".         

[Soldier4Christ]

lol  ...  Wouldn't that be "Not Impersonating a Human in Public"?   

[jgarden]

Islamic Fifth Column Getting More Stronger And More Active

The only hate crime here is the hate that these islamists are pushing against the people of the U.S. Unfortunately there are too many that don't see what is coming at them. It is a run away freight train barreling down on them with no way to get out of the way.

The more that they win in such as actions as this the more determined and bold they are getting in their actions. These islamists are getting exactly what they want ...  people that are afraid to tell the truth about them. It won't be long before they have their foothold so strong that it will be far too late to stop them.

In a previous thread concerning Global Warming you stated -

"Let's get real. Those things that effect climate the most in this world is beyond the control of mankind and is in the hands of God. When true global warming does come to this planet it won't be because of humans creating too much co2 but rather because they have turned their backs to God."

Are you suggesting, as in the case of Global Warming, that we also sit back  idlely and watch Islamic Fundamentalism and terrorism take its toll, because Americans "have turned their backs on God."

If the "beyond the control of mankind and is in the hands of God," applies when it comes to Global Warming, why don't we sit back passively and put Homeland Security entirely into "the hands of God?"

If America is worth defending from terrorists, its also worth defending from the effects of Global Warming.

[Shammu]

Are you suggesting, as in the case of Global Warming, that we also sit back  idlely and watch Islamic Fundamentalism and terrorism take its toll, because Americans "have turned their backs on God."

If the "beyond the control of mankind and is in the hands of God," applies when it comes to Global Warming, why don't we sit back passively and put Homeland Security entirely into "the hands of God?"

If America is worth defending from terrorists, its also worth defending from the effects of Global Warming.

Boy, you sure are on an attack today aren't you.

If you read else where instead of just one thread on islam, you would know different. And I see your back onto Global Warming farce again.

Thats what Global Warming is, a farce................

[Soldier4Christ]

Global warming is a myth. It has been proven that man made CO2 levels are not causing the earth to warm. The "records" that are used to substantiate it are those given by NASA which have been found to be in error and are in fact substantiating a cooling period instead. The threat posed by an islamic fifth column is real, not imagined by those that want power and money.

I do believe that you are here for one purpose and one purpose only. To stir up trouble and disrupt the forum.

[jgarden]

Global warming is a myth. It has been proven that man made CO2 levels are not causing the earth to warm. The "records" that are used to substantiate it are those given by NASA which have been found to be in error and are in fact substantiating a cooling period instead. The threat posed by an islamic fifth column is real, not imagined by those that want power and money.

I do believe that you are here for one purpose and one purpose only. To stir up trouble and disrupt the forum.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has
intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei
 

[Soldier4Christ]

1Co 1:27  But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;
1Co 1:28  And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are:
1Co 1:29  That no flesh should glory in his presence.


1Co 2:5  That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
1Co 2:6  Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought:
1Co 2:7  But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory:

[Soldier4Christ]

Iraqi officers go missing in U.S.
Nearly dozen – including brigadier general – fled military training facilities

Numerous Iraqi military and law-enforcement officials brought to the U.S. as part of special intelligence and training programs have run away and are seeking asylum in this country or disappeared altogether, The Washington Times has learned.

Intelligence officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity, say nearly a dozen Iraqis fled military training facilities in the U.S., including a brigadier general who went to Canada with his family earlier this year.

Army officials yesterday confirmed that five Iraqi military personnel whom the Army had been training disappeared between 2005 and 2007. They did not know how many other Iraqis sponsored by the Air Force, Marine Corps and Navy may have done the same.

"Nothing that this command is aware of would suggest that any of those students who departed from their training or returned back to Iraq pose any threat to the United States," said Harvey Perritt, civilian spokesman for U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC), which oversees all the schools the Army has in the continental U.S.

"We don"t know the reasons why they elected not to return to Iraq," he said.

Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas, ranking Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, says the national security implications are serious and the Bush administration must do more to ensure that those brought to the U.S. are properly accounted for.

"The trainees are given access to highly sensitive information intended to help in the stabilization of Iraq. Proper screening for entry into the program and strict controls during the training are necessary to protect both our national security and our soldiers overseas," said Mr. Smith, who first inquired about missing trainees last year.

Mr. Smith has yet to receive definitive answers to questions he sent to Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff in December 2006. He asked who the Iraqi military and law-enforcement officials are, whether an investigation was being conducted and how many Iraqi nationals have fled from military installations in the U.S., according to documents obtained by The Times.

"It is my understanding that officials at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS) have received a significant number of asylum requests from Iraqi trainees brought here by the Department of Defense," Mr. Smith said in the letter. "The Iraqi nationals seek asylum on the grounds that they would be targeted by insurgents if they return to their home country. I also understand that, in some cases, the Iraqi nationals actually abandon their training in order to seek asylum."

Mr. Perritt said all the Iraqis who come to the U.S. are vetted by the multinational forces in Iraq, and that TRADOC also trains personnel from other government agencies, such as the State Department, Central Intelligence Agency, Treasury and Homeland Security departments.

He said two Iraqi officers fled in the middle of their training from Fort Huachuca, Ariz., the nation's largest intelligence training facility. One officer disappeared from Fort Benning, Ga., where he was participating in combat arms training.

Another Iraqi officer who was studying medical training left Fort Sam Houston and the last two Iraqi officers fled the Army's defense language training school at Lackland Air Force Base — both those bases are in San Antonio.

CIS officials said that they could not give detailed reasons as to who applied for asylum because it could pose a danger to the applicant.

"The reason we don't break things down into specific details is because we are concerned about the safety of all parties involved in the asylum process — both the applicant here in the U.S. and the families in their home country," said Chris Bentley, CIS spokesman.

Besides Mr. Perritt's response, calls to Homeland Security, Defense and the State Department did not produce definitive answers to the tracking of the trainees. Homeland Security said the Defense and State departments "would be more appropriate respondents for information regarding the tracking of entries under this program."

Defense officials said the Iraqis' backgrounds are checked by the State Department before they are accepted into the program. State Department officials had no comment.

The training of Iraqi military personnel is determined by Central Command and under the Security Assistance Program with the Department of Defense, Mr. Perritt said.

In 2005, CIS said 232 Iraqi nationals applied for asylum in the U.S., while 310 applied in 2006. In 2005, the agency completed 229 Iraqi asylum cases and approved 120, while the rest were "denied, referred to the Department of Justice Executive Office for Immigration Review, or administratively closed."

In 2005, the Office of Immigration Statistics said 607 Iraqi diplomats and other government workers received class A visas, or similar, to come to the U.S. — the same visas issued to Iraqi military officials. In 2006, 585 diplomatic visas were issued.

In March, The Times revealed that an Iraqi air force colonel disappeared from an Air Force base in Alabama with his family and was being sought by federal and military agents. The colonel was studying at the Air Command and Staff College at Maxwell Air Force Base as part of the Defense program to rebuild the Iraqi air force.

The Air Force, FBI and U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement (ICE) agents started in March to search throughout the Southeast for the colonel and his family. He was thought to be hiding in the U.S. or Mexico.