Somali-Americans Accused of Al Qaeda Ties Indicted on Terror Charges, Sources Say

FOXNEWS.com ^ | July 01, 2009 | By Mike Levine

[Son House]

Among those charged is a man from Minneapolis who went to war-torn Somalia and then, about four months ago, relocated to Seattle, according to the two sources and a leader in the Minneapolis Somali community. The man was then arrested in a Seattle airport and transferred to a jail in Minneapolis, where he is currently being detained, according to the law enforcement sources.

The law enforcement sources said the man, described as in his 20s, has been charged with providing material support to a terrorist group, in this case al-Shabaab, which has been warring with the moderate Somali government since 2006.

Omar Jamal, the executive director of the Somali Justice Advocacy Center in St. Paul, Minn., identified the man as 21-year-old Abdifatah Ise. FOX News was unable to independently confirm that. Jamal said the man's family contacted him for "assistance" after the arrest, but he had been unable to speak publicly about it until now "in the interest of" a federal investigation.

The investigation has centered around Minneapolis, where a grand jury has been hearing testimony from witnesses for several months, but the investigation has also been active in Seattle; Columbus, Ohio; Cincinnati; Boston; and San Diego.

A source told FOX News in March that "several" recruits had returned to the United States, but counterterrorism officials have repeatedly said there is no intelligence indicating that any such recruits are planning attacks within the country.

"[Their] primary focus obviously is not on the homeland, it's abroad," Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano said during a briefing with reporters last week. "But any time you have people who are being trained in terrorist-type activities, that's something that needs to be monitored."

[Son House]

Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano

. She doesn't believe terrorist exist

[Son House]

At Last, The ‘War On Terror’ Is Over [Napolitano: “In some respects ‘war’ is too limiting.”

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2283948/posts

“One of the reasons the nomenclature is not used is that ‘war’ carries with it a relationship to nation-states in conflict with each other,” she told the Financial Times, adding: “and of course terrorism is not necessarily derived from the nation-state relationship.”

Reflecting the careful attention devoted to this matter at the highest levels of government, Napolitano concluded: “In some respects ‘war’ is too limiting.”

[Son House]

Do you suppose there are Illegal Aliens from Somalia that will get Amnesty under the Democrat bill?

[grey_whiskers]

A source told FOX News in March that "several" recruits had returned to the United States, but counterterrorism officials have repeatedly said there is no intelligence indicating that any such recruits are planning attacks within the country.

You mean, just like with Moussaoui's laptop in 2001?

Someone needs to get a NATIONAL reporter asking NOW if the guys laptops have been examined.

Cheers!

[bcsco]

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Somali-Americans Accused of Al Qaeda Ties Indicted on Terror Charges

Ya think?