The FBI confirmed Friday that it is investigating a report that a female service member was assaulted by a group of male Afghan refugees who are being
housed at Fort Bliss. The report comes days after
two Afghan refugees were indicted by a federal grand jury in Wisconsin in connection alleged crimes committed while they were staying at Fort McCoy in Wisconsin.
Bahrullah Noori, 20, was accused of engaging in a sex act with a minor on three separate occasions at the facility and attempting to engage in a sex act with another minor. Mohammad Haroon Imaad, 32, was accused of assaulting his wife –who alleged to military authorities that her husband repeatedly struck their children, raped her and threatened to “send her back to Afghanistan where the Taliban could deal with her.”
In the aftermath of the evacuation from Afghanistan, officials have raised concerns that temporary housing facilities for refugees could become a hunting ground for sex criminals.
