{"id":157292,"date":"2025-11-28T11:17:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T11:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/157292\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T11:17:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T11:17:08","slug":"bbc-verify-video-shows-aftermath-of-israeli-raid-in-syria-that-killed-at-least-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/157292\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Verify: Video shows aftermath of Israeli raid in Syria that killed at least 10"},"content":{"rendered":"

What we know about Afghan vetting under President Bidenpublished at 10:56 GMT<\/p>\n

10:56 GMT<\/p>\n

\"\"Lucy Gilder
BBC Verify senior journalist<\/p>\n

There have been repeated claims that the suspect in Wednesday\u2019s Washington DC shooting entered the US under a Biden-era Afghan resettlement scheme that did not carry out adequate vetting.<\/p>\n

At an FBI press conference earlier today, US Attorney for DC Jeanine Pirro said \u201cthis is what happens in this country when people are allowed in who are not properly vetted\u201d.<\/p>\n

And in a press release, external<\/a> shortly after the shooting, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said the suspect \u201cis one of thousands of unvetted Afghan nationals let into the country under the Biden administration’s Operation Allies Welcome program.\u201d<\/p>\n

More than 190,000 Afghans have been resettled under this scheme , external<\/a>and another programme called Enduring Welcome following the Taliban takeover in 2021, including those who worked on behalf of the US government. <\/p>\n

The official government website, external<\/a> for Operation Allies Welcome mentions a \u201crigorous\u201d and \u201cmulti-layered\u201d vetting process, which involved collecting biometric information such as fingerprints and other biographic data from Afghans before they were allowed to enter the country. <\/p>\n

However, a 2024 audit, external<\/a> carried out by the US government watchdog, the Office of Inspector General (OIG), found weaknesses in the government\u2019s ability to identify potentially negative information (such as national security concerns) about some Afghans who had entered the country under Operation Allies Welcome. <\/p>\n

Earlier this year another OIG audit of the scheme , external<\/a>commended the FBI for its role in screening Afghans for national security risks. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What we know about Afghan vetting under President Bidenpublished at 10:56 GMT 10:56 GMT Lucy GilderBBC Verify senior…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157293,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-157292","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}