Posted on 11/11/2009 6:08:11 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo
A 43-year-old Somali man from Minneapolis was arrested this week in the Netherlands for allegedly financing the recruitment of up to 20 young Somali men from Minnesota to train and fight with terrorists in their homeland.
The arrest appears to be the most significant development yet in one of the most far-reaching counterterrorism investigations since 9/11.
The identity of the man, who was arrested Sunday at an asylum-seeker's center 45 miles northeast of Amsterdam, was not released. But Special Agent E.K. Wilson of the Minneapolis FBI office confirmed Tuesday that the man was arrested in connection with the ongoing counterterrorism investigation that began here when young men began disappearing in 2007.
"We are aware of this individual and of this arrest. And it is tied to our ongoing Minneapolis investigation," Wilson said. "We are and have been working closely with Dutch authorities through our legal attaché office in Brussels and coordinating with the Department of Justice Office of International Affairs."
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FYI....
Correction that would be a 43-year-old Somali living in Minneapolis.
Too bad he hadn’t recruited 2000, instead of 20. The city
would be a better place.
I once went on vacation to a quaint seaside town in Maine with the family. Since I was first up, I headed to the row of shops to get coffee, hot choclate and doughnuts for the gang to have when they woke up.
The place was crawling with Muslim Somalis; so odd in this American Maine place. Missionaries had rescued Christian Somalis and brought them to Maine and the Muslim Somalis followed.
To make a long story short, a muslim somali and I passed one another on the side walk and he glared at me like he hated me and wanted to hurt me. I was in shorts and a tee shirt and he did not approve I suppose. I stopped and glared back at him and said “what the f are you looking at?” Two American men who were near stopped to see what the problem was. That was one scared big shot muslim...who suddenly had no problem with anything American.
I will never forget that.
Good for you..
Never back down to these people.
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