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Another is charged with assaulting his spouse by strangling, hitting, raping and suffocating her since arriving to Fort McCoy.   Two Afghan refugees at Fort McCoy - Bahrullah Noori and Mohammad Imaad - are accused of committing serious crimes in Wisconsin, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. Noori is accused of the sexual abuse of two boys, some of which occurred on the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Some of the abuse continued for 15 days, the complaint alleges. The complaint against Imaad described severe domestic violence, with Mohammad Imaad allegedly threatening "to send her back to Afghanistan where the Taliban could deal with her." The complaint for Bahrullah Noori can be read here. Read the complaint against Mohammad Imaad here. The U.S. DOJ announced the charges in a Sept. 22, 2021, news release, saying they were issued by a federal grand jury in the Western District of Wisconsin. "Two Afghan Evacuees Charged w

Another is charged with assaulting his spouse by strangling, hitting, raping and suffocating her since arriving to Fort McCoy.   Two Afghan refugees at Fort McCoy - Bahrullah Noori and Mohammad Imaad - are accused of committing serious crimes in Wisconsin, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. Noori is accused of the sexual abuse of two boys, some of which occurred on the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Some of the abuse continued for 15 days, the complaint alleges. The complaint against Imaad described severe domestic violence, with Mohammad Imaad allegedly threatening "to send her back to Afghanistan where the Taliban could deal with her." The complaint for Bahrullah Noori can be read here. Read the complaint against Mohammad Imaad here. The U.S. DOJ announced the charges in a Sept. 22, 2021, news release, saying they were issued by a federal grand jury in the Western District of Wisconsin. "Two Afghan Evacuees Charged w

Wisconsin's Fort McCoy may be poised to get thousands of Afghan refugees, according to a Fox news correspondent. Jacqui Heinrich, White House correspondent for Fox News, wrote on Twitter on Aug. 15, 2021, "Pentagon confirms to me the Department of Defense is preparing to house thousands of Afghan refugees on American military installations, immediately including Fort McCoy in Wisconsin and Fort Bliss in Texas." She quoted a Pentagon spokesman by name for the report. “We want to have capacity to get up to several thousand immediately, and want to be prepared for potential of tens of thousands,” Pentagon Spox John Kirby told Heinrich, according to her tweets. “Bliss & McCoy have capability right now – what’s advantageous is w/ a bit of work, could increase in short order.” Fort McCoy is a United States Army installation that is located between Sparta and Tomah, Wisconsin, in Monroe County. It has housed a major influx of refugees before, back in 1980 during th

"So, we’ve seen the debacle in Afghanistan. It appears the Biden admin is going to double down on it by bringing people who are unvetted into our country," - U.S. Rep. Tom Tiffany U.S. Rep. Tom Tiffany says that, of the approximately 2,000 evacuees from Afghanistan at Wisconsin's Fort McCoy when he visited recently, "none of them were there on a special immigration visas." He claimed that the refugees are not properly vetted. He also says that the Afghan refugees are allowed to leave the base unsupervised "including without the authority of the general." Those SIV visas, explained Tiffany, involve a "thorough vetting process that can take up to two years to find out if a person should be coming to the United States." Tiffany made the comments on the Tucker Carlson show on Fox News on Aug. 31, 2021. "I was at Fort McCoy last Friday where there are 2,000 evacuees from Afghanistan; what we found out is none of them were there on a