Posted on 03/12/2009 7:13:05 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- There is an increasing threat of homegrown terror stemming from segments of a deeply isolated and alienated Somali-American community, a U.S. Senate committee hearing concluded Wednesday.
The hearing, conducted by the Senate Homeland and Governmental Affairs Committee, focused on the attempted recruitment of young Somali-American men by al-Shabaab, "a violent and brutal extremist (Somali) group" with significant ties to al Qaeda, according to the U.S. State Department.
"Over the last two years, individuals from the Somali community in the United States, including American citizens, have left for Somalia to support and in some cases fight on behalf of al-Shabaab," noted the committee's chairman, Sen. Joseph Lieberman, I-Connecticut.
Al-Shabaab -- also known as the Mujahedeen Youth Movement -- was officially designated as a terrorist organization by the U.S. government in March 2008.
The hearing highlighted the case of Shirwa Ahmed, a 27-year-old Somali-American who had been radicalized by al-Shabaab in his adopted home state of Minnesota before traveling to Somalia and blowing up himself and 29 others in October.
The idea that Ahmed was radicalized in the United States raised red flags throughout the U.S. intelligence community. The incident -- the first suicide bombing by a naturalized U.S. citizen -- was the "most significant case of homegrown American terrorism recruiting based on violent Islamist ideology," Lieberman said.
"The dangers brought to light by these revelations is clear: radicalized individuals trained in terrorist tactics and in possession of American passports can clearly pose a threat to the security of our country," said Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine.
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We let in all these Muslims and/or Islamic terrorists from foreign countries (who hate us, by the way) — and then someone exclaims that we’ve got problems with “home-grown terrorists”...
Is anyone running this country? :-)
For crying out loud, just deport the “ deeply isolated and alienated Somalis.”
This can’t be true! It’s just because they hated Bush! Now that Obama defeated Bush....love is in the air!!!/s
And minnesota just awarded it’s first islam house loan to a (somali).
Taxpayers of America, unite!
Prop 13 was passed in 1978 in California and if it can happen there it can happen in every other state as well. The taxpayers can start a grass roots campaign to get many such ballot measures on their individual state ballots!
Can’t do that. That’d be racist dontchaknow.
“There is an increasing threat of homegrown terror stemming from segments of a deeply isolated and alienated Somali-American community...”
The problem has been identified — now do something about it, like round them up and deport them all. Or do we rather live with the cancer and its consequences? America seems to have a death wish.
What a BS PC piece of bureaucratic newspeak!
Translation:
"alienated Somali-American" = "purposeful sleeper-cell Muslims"
We've allowed some too many low-life scum into the country who are here ONLY to do this country harm.
Not really. The folks we thought were sitting behind the wheel turn out to be busy setting up special real estate loans, tickling their 'partners' genitals, making sure madoff goes to jail without ever seeing the inside of a courtroom. Some of them are busy thumbing through prior 1040's, just in case they get a job offer, doncha know.
Their "lives, fortunes and sacred honor" all got tied up elsewhere.
In churches, synagogues?
In Amish heater factories?
Where do they train them, in coffee shops?
Fast food restaurants?
They find them in their mosques.
They train them in their mosques.
Oh, was it mentioned that these are Islamic muslims?
Just like those "isolated and alienated" terrorists bombed London on 7-11?
This is code talk to disguise the fact that the "progressives" want to let those hostile to the US simply walk right in and set up shop.
We uprooted thousands of Somalis from their home country. The black caucus thought this was a great idea and white liberals agreed. We settled them in tropical paradises as Minnesota and Maine. In addition to culture shock they all have Seasonal Affective Disorder. They are not happy here. They should be sent home.
Dear Senator Collins, RINO-Maine. You got what you asked for and lobbied for.
They are isolated because they want to be. And they use alienation to force their agendas down our leaders' gutless, PC choked throats.
The Islamic fascists have to be overjoyed with Obama. First he will release the Gitmo guys and probably pay them damages for so unfairly incarcerating them. Second he is cozying up to Hammas and giving them money and ignoring Israel. Lastly he appears very weak and likely to seek appeasement in response to acts of terror. Given the weak financial position of the US the terrorists could easily believe that a major blow to the US could topple the country and bring down the Great Satan.
I have my doubts...
Sort of like saying that a pit bull was radicalized by it's owner...
Another thing....If the socialists say that homosexuality was part of a a homosexual's DNA at birth...why don't they say that terrorism was part of a terrorists DNA at birth????
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