{"id":57917,"date":"2023-08-30T04:31:40","date_gmt":"2023-08-29T19:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2023\/aug\/29\/fbi-uzbeks-asylum-seekers-islamic-state"},"modified":"2023-08-30T04:31:40","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T19:31:40","slug":"fbi-agents-reportedly-search-for-uzbeks-helped-into-us-by-smuggler-with-is-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=57917","title":{"rendered":"FBI agents reportedly search for Uzbeks helped into US by smuggler with IS ties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Episode reported by CNN required emergency memo to senior officials and suggests agency does not know migrants\u2019 location<\/p>\n<p>Federal agents are reportedly trailing a group of more than a dozen Uzbek nationals who entered the US as asylum seekers aided by a smuggler with ties to Isis.<\/p>\n<p>The extraordinary episode, which multiple US officials confirmed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/08\/29\/politics\/migrants-us-southern-border-smuggler-isis-ties\/index.html\">CNN on Tuesday<\/a>, was considered so serious that it required an emergency intelligence report to senior Biden administration figures.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2023\/aug\/29\/fbi-uzbeks-asylum-seekers-islamic-state\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Episode reported by CNN required emergency memo to senior officials and suggests agency does not know migrants\u2019 locationFederal agents are reportedly trailing a group of more than a dozen Uzbek nationals who entered the US as asylum seekers aided by a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2221,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1093,471,61,1083,47,2431,856,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fbi","category-islamic-state","category-south-and-central-asia","category-us-immigration","category-us-news","category-us-mexico-border","category-uzbekistan","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57917"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57918,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57917\/revisions\/57918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}