If Ilhan Omar had come to America as a Somali refugee
willing to assimilate into American culture, even retaining her anti-USA-Constitution theopolitical faith of Islam, I might be willing to
look the other way on the fraudulent manner she entered the USA as a twelve
year-old kid. Omar’s immigration gets worse. After becoming a U.S. citizen she
married her blood-line brother so he could enter the USA. As of this writing I’m
unsure if the incestuous marriage was for Ilhan Omar’s brother to attain
refugee status or to become a U.S. citizen like his sister-wife of the time.
Perhaps this Power
Line Blog investigation will enlighten me and you. Oh
yeah, Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D-MN) true name is Ilhan Nur Said Elmi.
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DAVID STEINBERG:
TYING UP LOOSE THREADS IN THE CURIOUS CASE
Posted By SCOTT JOHNSON
JULY 18, 2019
In four intensely reported investigative columns — here (August 13,
2018), here (October 23,
2018), here (October 30, 2018),
and here (November 5, 2018), —
David Steinberg has explored the evidence suggesting that Ilhan Omar entered
into a sham marriage with her brother in 2009. This is his fifth. He titles it
“Meet Leila Elmi: The Missing Link Showing Ilhan Omar Married Her Brother.”
Drawing on his research, interviews, and social media evidence he makes the
case that Omar has engaged in a variety of fraudulent activities and willful
misrepresentations related to her marital arrangements. He writes:
On October 22, 2008, the U.S. State Department stopped accepting applications for the
Priority 3/Refugee Family Reunification program — the process
by which refugees can apply for asylum if one family member is already a legal
U.S. resident. State halted the program because DNA testing — primarily of
Somalis — had concluded that perhaps 87 percent of applicants were fraudulently
claiming family relationships.
Despite continuing war, Somalia of 2008 was not comparable
to the open hell of the early 1990s, when an eight-year-old Ilhan and her
family fled to Kenya’s Dadaab refugee camps. She lived there from 1991 until
1995, aged eight to 12. Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Services then helped
Ilhan, her sister Sahra, and their father Nur Said receive asylum in the United
States along with thousands of other Somalis.
The complicated moral question of fraud, let alone fault,
among this 1990s wave of refugees escaping civil war will never be answered
with accurate statistics. We will have to settle for adjectives like
“widespread” and “rampant.” Yet the negative outcomes cannot be ignored. Even refugees with
strong desire to assimilate with Western civic order are hampered by the
possible discovery of conflicting documents. And compromising information becomes leverage in
a community already difficult to police.
Twelve-year-old Ilhan had no say on the manner in which she
arrived in the United States.
However, U.S. Congresswoman Ilhan Abdullahi Omar (D-MN) is
now under scrutiny for acts she took beginning in 2009 — not 1995. In 2009,
Omar was a 26-year-old U.S. citizen. She had been a U.S. citizen for nearly
nine years.
Additionally, the foreign national Omar apparently helped
commit fraud was not fleeing hell in 2009, either. Ahmed Nur Said Elmi was a
long-time citizen of the United Kingdom. He even possessed a high school
diploma from the United States: Elmi attended a St. Paul, Minnesota high
school for his senior year of 2002-2003, and graduated before
returning to London.
We look to 1995 not to incriminate a kid, but to answer
questions about what Omar did 14 years later as an adult U.S. citizen.
Please read the verified evidence below — and read it
alongside the three years of verified evidence published by Scott Johnson,
Preya Samsundar, and myself (our work is linked here). The
answers to those questions about 2009 appear to give probable cause to
investigate Omar for eight instances of perjury, immigration fraud, marriage
fraud, up to eight years of state and federal tax fraud, two years of federal
student loan fraud, and even bigamy.
To be clear: The facts describe perhaps the most extensive
spree of illegal misconduct committed by a House member in American history.
———————-
The preceding information was given to me by multiple
sources within the Minneapolis Somali community. The verifiable evidence
corroborating their information follows below:
In 1995, Ilhan entered the United States as a fraudulent
member of the “Omar” family.
That is not her family. The Omar family is a second,
unrelated family which was being granted asylum by the United States. The Omars
allowed Ilhan, her genetic sister Sahra, and her genetic father Nur Said to use
false names to apply for asylum as members of the Omar family.
Ilhan’s genetic family split up at this time. The above
three received asylum in the United States, while Ilhan’s three other siblings
— using their real names — managed to get asylum in the United Kingdom.
Ilhan Abdullahi Omar’s name, before applying for asylum, was
Ilhan Nur Said Elmi.
Her father’s name before applying for asylum was Nur Said
Elmi Mohamed. Her sister Sahra Noor’s name before applying for asylum was Sahra
Nur Said Elmi. Her three siblings who were granted asylum by the United Kingdom
are Leila Nur Said Elmi, Mohamed Nur Said Elmi, and Ahmed Nur Said Elmi.
Ilhan and Ahmed married in 2009, presumably to benefit in
some way from a fraudulent marriage. They did not divorce until 2017.
Above: This
chart summarizes how multiple sources in the Minneapolis Somali
community describe key events in the life of MN Representative Ilhan Abdullahi
Omar — whom these sources state was born as “Ilhan Nur Said Elmi.”
———————-
Confirming some of the above information, as it might appear
on their 1995 U.S. immigration papers, is not difficult. A basic background
search shows that “Nur Omar Mohamed,” “Ilhan Abdullahi Omar,” and “Sahra Noor”
all received SSNs in 1995 or 1996 in Virginia. Verified address records show
adult members of the Omars living at three addresses in Arlington, Virginia at
that time: 1223 South Thomas Street, 1226 South Thomas Street, and 1107 South
Thomas Street.
The United Kingdom records of the relevant individuals are
similarly easy to find. Try with a simple Ancestry.com account and similar
online tools: There appears to be only one “Leila Nur Said Elmi,” only one
“Mohamed Nur Said Elmi,” and only one “Ahmed Nur Said Elmi” in the UK.
The remaining evidence below verifies a sibling relationship
between Ilhan and Ahmed.
————————
Sahra Noor is the only person Ilhan Omar has ever publicly
identified as her sister. Ilhan and Sahra have also, publicly and often,
referred to the same man as their father. And, per Preya Samsundar’s 2016 investigation,
they both identified this man as “Nur Said”:
The above image, a screenshot
of Sahra Noor’s confirmed Facebook account, was first published by
Preya Samsundar in 2016.
He also identifies himself as “Nur Said”.
See below — this is a
screenshot
of his current Facebook account. As of this article’s publication, it
is active and searchable by anyone online. (I have archived his page with
archive.is):
Note this thumbnail of “Leyla Cilmi,” listed as a friend of
Nur Said.
In 2018, as I published a series of articles investigating
Ilhan’s past, this account name changed from “Leila Elmi” to “Leyla Cilmi.”
However, the URL did not change. It still refers to “leila.elmi”:
Below, see the 1997 marriage certificate for the only Leila
Nur Said Elmi listed in the United Kingdom.
I retrieved this certified copy from a government records
center in London in February of this year; note the date in the document’s
lower right corner. This is a public record. Anyone can retrieve this document
to verify its authenticity.
So far, we have verifiable evidence that Ilhan Abdullahi
Omar, Sahra Noor, and Leila Nur Said Elmi referring to their respective fathers
as “Nur Said” or “Nur Said Elmi.”
Next, we have verifiable evidence showing the three are
sisters, and are all referring to the same man.
——————–
——————–
See below: These two posts appeared on Ilhan Omar’s
confirmed Instagram account in 2013 and 2015, respectively. (Instagram user
“hameey” became the blue-checked “IlhanMN” account at some point in 2016. A cursory
search through older posts on the “IlhanMN” account still reveals many
instances of commenters addressing “IlhanMN” as “hameey.”)
In August 2016 — after Scott Johnson and Preya Samsundar
originally broke the story about Ilhan’s curious marriage — the below post
disappeared from Ilhan Omar’s Instagram account.
However, a source within the Minneapolis Somali community
had downloaded much of Omar’s Instagram account before posts were deleted.
The source recently reviewed these two deleted posts,
recognized their significance, and sent them to me via email. I made these
emails available to Power Line to confirm how I received these posts, and to
confirm that this particular source had provided several other pieces of
information that had proven authentic and verifiable:
You are looking at what appears to be Leila Elmi, Nur Said,
and Ilhan Omar — together. According to Ilhan, they are pictured on
an August 2011 trip to East Africa.
Now, see below: You
are looking at what appears to be Leila
Elmi in white, Ilhan in black, and Ilhan’s amazing caption in red:
Further, the above post, with the #londontrip hashtag,
depicts Ilhan Omar’s infamous 2015 trip to the UK. This is the same trip on
which Ilhan
was photographed with Ahmed Nur Said Elmi himself:
Below, see one more piece of evidence establishing Leila
Elmi as Ilhan’s sister. This post is currently live, and I have archived it.
In December 2016, Ilhan reported that she was harassed by a cab driver while
in Washington, D.C. attending meetings. She claimed that the cab driver called
her “ISIS” and threatened to remove her hijab. A few days later, Ilhan filed a report with the
D.C. Department of For-Hire Vehicles and the D.C. Office of Human Rights.
Ilhan initially stated that she was accompanied in the cab
by her “sister.” A Star Tribune reporter in 2016 claimed to have a copy of her
complaint, and that it stated she had been in the cab with her
sister.
I few months ago, I received a copy of Ilhan’s report via
FOIA request. The description of the person Ilhan had been in the cab with was
redacted.
Suleiman Axoow, per his profile, is a frequent host of
social events for the Washington, D.C. Somali-American community. On December
9, 2016, Suleiman Axoow stated that he was with Ilhan soon after the cab
incident:
On Wednesday night I had an
opportunity to have dinner with State Representative-Elect Ilhan Omar & her
lovely sis Leila Elmi
…
Check the “Edit
History” on Suleiman’s Axoow’s post. He even initially included a link
to the Leila Elmi/Leyla Cilmi account:
It is not plausible to believe that Axoow simply made a
mistake.
One would have to believe that Axoow:
1.
Had dinner with Ilhan and a second woman;
2. that
the woman was introduced to him as any other person alive;
3. and
that a couple days later he made the 1-in-7-billion mistake of misremembering
this woman as Ilhan Omar’s “lovely sis Leila Elmi.” A random name of a woman
from England he has no clear reason to know.
Ilhan has steadfastly refused to give media the names of any
of her siblings besides Sahra Noor. The only rational explanation: Leila Elmi
was in the United States to visit Ilhan Omar, attended this dinner with her,
and Ilhan (carelessly?) introduced her as Axoow describes.
We now have verifiable evidence that Ilhan Omar,
Sahra Noor, and Leila Elmi are siblings with a father named Nur Said Elmi.
All that remains is to verify our sources’ claims that Ahmed
Nur Said Elmi is indeed Leila Nur Said Elmi’s brother.
————————-
We have a great, easy start: Leila and Ahmed already appear
to be two of the only three “Nur Said Elmis” in the United Kingdom.
Next, view the marriage certificate again: It attests that
Leila Nur Said Elmi lived in Camden, a borough of London, in 1997, and that she
was 24 years old at the time.
Ahmed Nur Said Elmi was 12 in 1997. Per his own admission,
he attended a school in Camden for students aged 11 to 18: Haverstock School.
(See its address here; “Camden” is in the school’s URL: https://www.haverstock.camden.sch.uk/.)
This link on Ahmed’s
[Amadán
Elmi] confirmed Facebook account is currently live, and I have archived
the page:
(Note that he lists his current location as “Nairobi,
Kenya.” See here for definitive evidence
that Ahmed has recently been working in Nairobi with — of all people — Sahra Noor.)
Back in August 2016, Preya Samsundar posted two finds now worth
revisiting:
1.
Ahmed Nur Said Elmi’s Instagram post calling two
young twin girls with a backpack from a primary school in Camden his “nieces.”
Ilhan’s Instagram account “loved” the post.
2. Ilhan’s
Instagram post picturing herself with the same twin girls. Ilhan marked her
location as “Camden Lock Village.” Ilhan also calls the girls “her nieces.” The
post is yet another that is tagged #londontrip from 2015.
The twin girls are, indeed, the daughters of Leila Nur Said
Elmi. This can be confirmed by anyone through posts that are currently active
on Mohamed Nur Said Elmi’s Facebook account.
We now have verifiable evidence that:
1.
Sahra Noor, Ilhan Omar, and Leila Elmi
are siblings with a father named Nur Said Elmi.
2. Leila
Elmi and Ahmed Nur Said Elmi both lived in the same neighborhood of London, and
know each other.
3. Both
Ilhan Omar and Ahmed Nur Said Elmi call Leila Elmi’s children “nieces.”
——————–
Earlier this year, a source gave me one more piece of
information that would inform UK law enforcement — if granted a warrant — where
to locate conclusive proof that Ahmed Nur Said Elmi married his sister Ilhan
Omar.
Ahmed Nur Said Elmi apparently arrived in the United Kingdom
in 1995 or 1996, only 10 or 11 years old, without a parent. Who looked after
him until he arrived in the United States in 2002?
According to my sources, it was Leila.
There is no adoption record (which can be public in the UK);
it would have been a “Kinship Care” or “Family and Friends
Carer” arrangement. I am advised that Haverstock School would
have records of student Ahmed Nur Said Elmi living at the same address as Leila
Elmi with her listed as his guardian.
However, these two very recent posts — currently active on
Instagram and archived — already put a nice bow on everything. Here
are Leila
and Ahmed calling each other “mum” and “son”:
Leila and Ahmed calling each other mum
and son 2
—————-
On August 10, 2017, Ilhan swore under penalty of perjury
— literally, she signed a half-inch or so under
“penalty of perjury” — that she’d had zero contact with Ahmed
Nur Said Elmi after June 2011.
Further, Ilhan swore that she did not know where to find
him, and that she did not know a single person who was likely to know his
whereabouts. She did this to apply for a default divorce from Ahmed — a divorce
where one spouse cannot be located and served.
Now, a tremendous amount of evidence — from this article and
our prior articles — shows that Ilhan perhaps perjured herself eight
times with her nine answers. Minnesota’s perjury statute allows for a
sentence of up to five years — for each instance:
Yet this may be the least worrisome of her current legal
exposures.
Consider the disturbingly inadequate evidence used to obtain
FISA warrants on members of Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. Consider
that Democratic representatives have demanded that Attorney General William
Barr release grand jury testimony — itself an illegal act.
Yet here we have:
·
Verifiable UK and U.S. marriage records
·
Verifiable address records
·
Time-stamped, traceable, archived online
communications (Convictions and settlements based upon social media evidence
are commonplace, Anthony Weiner being a notable example)
·
Background check confirmations of SSNs and
birthdates
·
Archived court documents signed under penalty of
perjury
·
Photos which can be examined to rule out digital
manipulation
·
The 2019 Minnesota Campaign Finance and Public
Disclosure Board investigation, which found Omar filed illegal joint tax
returns with a man who was not her husband in at least 2014 and 2015
·
Three years’ of evidence published across many
articles — none of which has been shown to be incorrect, or have even been
challenged with contradictory evidence from Rep. Omar or any other source
·
Perjury evidence that stands on its own —
regardless of whom she married:
·
Long after June 2011, she was clearly in contact
with the only man in either the U.S. or the UK with the same name and birthdate
as the man she married. She was clearly in contact with several people who were
in contact with him.
·
Further, Preya Samsundar did contact him,
published how she managed to contact him, and published his email admitting to
being photographed with Omar in London in 2015. To be clear: Omar was legally
married to an “Ahmed Nur Said Elmi” at the time she was photographed next to a
man who admits his name is Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, and that he is in the photo.
·
Samsundar published all of this information on
how to contact Ahmed Nur Said Elmi a few months before Omar swore to that
nine-question court document.
·
Rep. Omar has refused all inquiries from her
constituents, elected officials, and media outlets to provide any specific
evidence contradicting even a single allegation suggested by three years of
now-public information.
·
In fact, Omar has responded by making information
less available:
·
In August 2016, after Scott Johnson and Preya
Samsundar posted the allegations, Omar’s verified social media accounts were
taken offline.
·
Ahmed Nur Said Elmi’s social media accounts were
also taken offline.
·
When the accounts returned, a large amount of
potentially incriminating evidence had verifiably been deleted.
·
I found and published at least ten additional
“before and after” instances of evidence still being deleted in 2018.
·
Omar has released carefully worded, Clintonian
statements that denigrate those seeking answers from her as racists. Yet she
has repeatedly refused to answer questions or issue anything other than public
relations statements.
·
I have a large amount of information that we
have not published for reasons including the protection of sources.
·
Sources have expressed fear regarding published video and photo evidence
confirming threats from Omar’s campaign team. These sources have
shared other evidence of threats. I have contacted the federal authorities to
share this and other unpublished information. Providing knowingly false
information to the DOJ is a serious crime.
I believe Scott Johnson, Preya Samsundar, and me, with our
three years of articles, columns and posts, have provided more than enough
evidence to give law enforcement authorities probable cause to open an
investigation. Now would be the chance for law enforcement, and especially for
Rep. Ilhan Omar’s House colleagues, to make a sincere stand against corruption
and for the uniform application of the law.
David Steinberg was New
York City Editor at PJMedia from 2009-2019, primarily handling
coverage of Israel, homeland security, and political corruption. His
investigation of Eric Cantor’s 2014 primary campaign is credited (ask Dave
Brat!) with tipping the historic loss, perhaps the beginning of the “Trump Era.” As
noted above, since 2018 Steinberg has published several articles of exclusive
evidence covering Rep. Ilhan Omar’s past; they can be accessed here: https://bit.ly/2FJq529.
Follow David Steinberg on Twitter: https://twitter.com/realDSteinberg
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Comment sent via email from Paul Sutliff of Civilization Jihad Awareness:
ReplyDeleteLet's push a narrative that says Ilhan Omar practices her own form of Islam that allowed her to be married to two men at the same time. One mosque marriage and the other a legal marriage. Then say we know men are allowed to be married to multiple wives. Maybe this is liberation theology in Islam. Promote this in Minnesota!
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