Ilhan Omar’s Family; Importing Genocidaires

Remains discovered from Isaaq genocide in Somalia “[Ilhan Omar’s father] Nur Said was a military officer who was loyal to the regime until the end. He was part and parcel of those who caused and created the mayhem they ‘fled’ to live comfortably in the United States.” —Mohamed Haji Ingiriis, historian and Oxford University researcher. In researching the genocides in Rwanda and Bosnia for my book Out of the Melting Pot, Into the Fire, I was struck by how many participants in those genocides turned up as residents, or even citizens, of the United States. Investigators have identified roughly...