{"id":14104,"date":"2017-05-16T13:37:48","date_gmt":"2017-05-16T17:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=14104"},"modified":"2018-12-28T12:49:50","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T17:49:50","slug":"sudan-may-be-off-list-of-state-sponsors-of-terrorism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2017\/05\/16\/sudan-may-be-off-list-of-state-sponsors-of-terrorism\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan May Be Off List of State Sponsors of Terrorism"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Clarion Project<\/a> recently reported that the United States is considering removing Sudan from the United States Department of State\u2019s (DOS) \u201cList of State Sponsors of Terrorism.\u201d While the designation currently remains in place<\/a>, the fact that the U.S. government has even considered changing it is profoundly disturbing.<\/p>\n Since gaining independence in 1956, Sudan has been a hotbed of Islamic terrorism. Ruled by a succession of military regimes<\/a> with significant ties to terror organizations, the United States has repeatedly suspected<\/a> it of harboring members of\u00a0Al Qaeda,\u00a0Hezbollah,\u00a0Hamas and a host of other dangerous Jihadist groups. When terrorist mastermind Osama Bin Laden was expelled from his native Saudi Arabia in 1996, he was given refuge<\/a> by the Sudanese government.<\/p>\n Even the open-borders Cato Institute<\/a> has acknowledged that \u2013 between 1975 and 2015 \u2013 at least six Sudanese nationals have been convicted of attempting, or carrying out, terrorist plots in the U.S. In February of 2017, a new offender was added to that list: a Sudanese man<\/a> living in Virginia was convicted of attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State in Syria (ISIS). Prosecution documents filed with the court state that he wanted to start an ISIS \u201csleeper cell<\/a>\u201d in the United States. Meanwhile, it is impossible for U.S. authorities to know whether some other Sudanese national, who they didn\u2019t catch, has already been successful in establishing a terrorist cell within the United States.<\/p>\n