SACRAMENTO -- An alleged ISIS member suspected of killing an Iraqi police officer in 2014 was arrested Wednesday in Sacramento, when Federal agents raided an apartment on Eastern Avenue.
The suspect, 45-year-old Omar Abdulsatter Ameen, is accused of killing an Iraqi police officer, Ihsan Abdulhafiz Jasim, after ISIS entered the Rawah district of the Al-Anbar province in Iraq on June 21, 2014. ISIS took control of the district, preventing people from entering or leaving.
The next day, court documents say Ameen was a part of a four-vehicle convoy that drove to the victim's home. Jasim was shot in the chest, killing him, which ISIS announced on social media.
A few months later in November 2014, Ameen migrated to the U.S. claiming to be a refugee, settling in Sacramento. He filed an I-485 application and when asked on his refugee application if he'd killed anyone, he answered no.
A witness was able to identify Ameen in a photograph.
Former federal prosecutor Bill Portanova believes Ameen will likely be extradited back to Iraq, which the Iraqi government requested. It was an Iraqi warrant, issued May 16, that led to Ameen’s arrest.
Background Details on Omar Ameen from the Criminal Complaint
- Based on the criminal complaint on file, Ameen and some of his family members have a long history with Al Qaeda and ISIS.
- In 2004, Ameen worked with other terrorist cells and is the founder of al-Tawhide Wa al-Jihad, an offshoot of Al Qaeda.
- During that time he was a close associate of a very well known and brutal terrorist figure named Abu Mus’ab al Zarqawi, who died in 2006.
- Ameen became the financial officer for Al Qaeda in the Al Anbar Province.
- In 2007, Ameen worked under an authority figure within Al Qaeda, Ghassan Muhammad Ameen al Rawi, who happens to be Ameen’s cousin.
- He comes from a family of 10 brothers and three sisters; all 10 of his brothers followed him into Al Qaeda “without exception.”
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