Four anti-Islamic State Kurds arrested entering U.S. from Mexico
Source: Reuters/Yahoo
The U.S. Homeland Security chief on Thursday presented evidence countering statements from conservative lawmakers that members of the Islamic State, which is the target of a U.S.-led air campaign in Iraq and Syria, had been caught entering America.
Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said four members of a Kurdish group that opposes Islamic State were arrested last month trying to enter the United States illegally from Mexico.
He said investigators had determined the four were members of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, known as the PKK.
The PKK is a separatist group in Turkey designated by the U.S. government as a "foreign terrorist organization." But in the conflict against Islamic State it has allied itself with other Kurdish groups fighting the Islamist militants.
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Guess that congressman didn't have the facts.
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He said investigators had determined the four were members of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, known as the PKK.
The PKK is a separatist group in Turkey designated by the U.S. government as a "foreign terrorist organization." But in the conflict against Islamic State it has allied itself with other Kurdish groups fighting the Islamist militants.
Johnson noted that the PKK was "actually fighting against ISIL and defended Kurdish territory in Iraq." They would be deported by U.S. authorities, he said in a speech in Washington.
http://news.yahoo.com/four-anti-islamic-state-kurds-arrested-entering-u-215458293.html
They're against ISIS, so I guess they are "our kind of terrorists," and that makes it all OK.
