Accused terrorist gained refugee status

The FBI arrested a man in Sacramento, Calif., who, before he came to the United States as a refugee, allegedly committed acts of terror as an Islamic State (ISIS) and al-Qaeda operative in Iraq. Omar Abdulsattar Ameen, 45, is accused of killing a police officer, planting improvised bombs, robbing supply trucks, and other crimes. The FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force arrested him on a warrant issued in May by a Baghdad court. U.S. officials plan to extradite him to Iraq. Ameen arrived in Turkey in 2012 and applied to the United States for refugee status by claiming to be a victim of terrorism, according to a court document. He was granted refugee status in June 2014 but returned to Iraq to commit the slaying of the police officer before traveling to the United States in November 2014, the document said.