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On the second day of his visit, Jackson told a crowd that Minnesota can send a message by electing Ellison to Congress. The Rev. Jesse Jackson let his star power shine on state Rep. Keith Ellison's congressional campaign on a sweltering Friday afternoon in North Commons park in Minneapolis. "What a statement from Minnesota to send Keith to Congress," Jackson said from the stage to a couple hundred faithful at the Ellison rally. "It's time to get the crooks out of office and put men in office who care." He spoke directly to Ellison, saying, "They're going to attack you....

In the bottom-of-the-hour news during Rush, WMAL reported that one of the 11 missing Egyptian students was found in Montana and is now being questioned by the FBI.

When Nihad Awad flew to Minneapolis to attend a fundraiser for state Rep. Keith Ellison in August, following him was a simmering debate in American politics: What constitutes support for terrorism? Last week, Minnesota Republicans thrust that issue to the forefront after Ellison won the DFL primary in the Fifth Congressional District. In a letter to Republicans statewide afterward, state GOP chairman Ron Carey accused Ellison of trying to hide his backing from "a self-identified supporter" of the Palestinian group Hamas.

Spokesman for 6 Muslim clerics barred from US Airways flight One of six Muslim imams pulled from a US Airways flight in Minneapolis last night by federal authorities is affiliated with a Hamas-linked organization and acknowledged a connection to Osama bin Laden in the 1990s. Omar Shahin, who served as a spokesman for the clerics, is a representative of the Kind Hearts Organization, which had its assets frozen by the U.S. Treasury pending an investigation, notes Islam scholar Robert Spencer on his weblog JihadWatch Treasury spokesman Stuart Levey in February said KindHearts "is the progeny of Holy Land Foundation and...

Muslim religious leaders removed from a Minneapolis flight last week exhibited behavior associated with a security probe by terrorists and were not merely engaged in prayers, according to witnesses, police reports and aviation security officials. Witnesses said three of the imams were praying loudly in the concourse and repeatedly shouted "Allah" when passengers were called for boarding US Airways Flight 300 to Phoenix. "I was suspicious by the way they were praying very loud," the gate agent told the Minneapolis Police Department. Passengers and flight attendants told law-enforcement officials the imams switched from their assigned seats to a pattern associated...

Muslim religious leaders removed from a Minneapolis flight last week exhibited behavior associated with a security probe by terrorists and were not merely engaged in prayers, according to witnesses, police reports and aviation security officials. Witnesses said three of the imams were praying loudly in the concourse and repeatedly shouted "Allah" when passengers were called for boarding US Airways Flight 300 to Phoenix. "I was suspicious by the way they were praying very loud," the gate agent told the Minneapolis Police Department. Passengers and flight attendants told law-enforcement officials the imams switched from their assigned seats to a pattern associated...

Authorities surrounded a home in Bloomington near the Southtown Mall Monday afternoon. The home, located on 84th Street and Knox Ave., was raided Monday afternoon by ATF agents and officials from the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. Officials told 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS that there was no immediate danger and it was more of precautionary measure. Bloomington firefighters evacuated homes in the neighborhood and used police tape to block off a large area. 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS spoke with a neighbor who was evacuated from his home. "Bombs, bomb contaminants, explosives in the neighborhood and they got a call on… they wanted to...

MINNEAPOLIS--The land of 10,000 lakes and that welcoming attitude we call "Minnesota Nice"--is becoming a window on America's potential future. Here in Minneapolis, one of the nation's most livable cities, hard-line Muslim activists are injecting an element that is anything but nice. Troubling incidents began several years ago, when taxi drivers at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport--about three-quarters of whom are Muslim--started refusing to transport passengers carrying alcohol. One woman, returning from France with wine, was turned away by five cabs in succession. Refusals of service now number about 100 a month, and heated altercations have erupted. In September 2006,...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - A federal grand jury added four new charges against a man authorities say fought with the Taliban, shared a meal with Osama bin Laden and wired money to people he met in Afghan training camps. Mohammed Warsame, 31, was charged last year with conspiracy to provide material support to al-Qaida. Wednesday's new indictment added a count of providing material support to the terrorist group and three counts of making false statements to the FBI. Warsame has been held without bail since his 2003 arrest. An arraignment date on the new charges had not been set, said Karen...

Mohammed Warsame seen in an undated photograph. (The photograph's background has been obscured to protect the source. ABCNEWS independently confirmed that the photograph shows Warsame.) U.S. Attempt to Turn Al Qaeda Suspect Into U.S. Informant Soured by Press Leak By Pierre Thomas Feb. 13 — When a Somali-born computer student was arrested in Minneapolis last December on suspicion of helping al Qaeda, federal counterterrorism officials thought they might finally have found what they desperately need — a way of getting inside Osama bin Laden's shadowy network. The counterterrorism officials developed a plan to turn the man, Mohammed Warsame, into a...

MINNEAPOLIS — A man accused of providing support to al-Qaida trained in martial arts and with weapons, taught English to al-Qaida members and joined the Taliban front lines, according to an FBI affidavit. Terror suspect Mohammed Warsame, 30, twice saw combat with front line units of the Taliban while in Afghanistan and once sat next to Osama bin Laden at a meal, said the affidavit, which investigators said was based on interviews with Warsame. “The defendant stated that bin Laden was very inspirational,” according to the affidavit. Prosecutors argued Monday that Warsame, a Somali with Canadian citizenship, is a flight...

The public court file against Mohammed A. Warsame, the Minneapolis college student accused of supporting Al-Qaida, is conspicuously void of detail. It alleges that he conspired to provide "material support and resources" to the terrorist organization starting in 2000 and says that he admitted going to an Afghanistan training camp with Osama bin Laden. For a handful of defense attorneys near Lackawanna, N.Y., the case has a familiar ring. There, six men of Yemeni descent who also attended a training camp were charged under the same federal material support law in the fall of 2002. Though the cases contain key...

A man accused of providing support to al-Qaida trained in martial arts and with weapons, taught English to al-Qaida members and even joined the Taliban front lines, according to an FBI affidavit. Terror suspect Mohammed Warsame, 30, twice saw combat with front line units of the Taliban while in Afghanistan and once sat next to Osama bin Laden at a meal, said the affidavit, which investigators said was based on interviews with Warsame. ``The defendant stated that bin Laden was very inspirational,'' according to the affidavit from FBI Special Agent Kiann Vandenover. Prosecutors argued Monday that Warsame, a Somali with...

The Minneapolis student arrested as a material witness in a terrorism investigation last month has been charged by a Minneapolis federal grand jury with conspiracy to provide material support to Al-Qaida. A one-page indictment unsealed Wednesday gives no details about what the government suspects Mohammed Warsame of doing except to say that Warsame, who also went by the names Abu Maryam and Abu Zaynab, conspired starting no later than March 2000 through December 8, 2003. An affidavit released in the U.S. District Court in the Southern District of New York says Warsame told FBI agents on Dec. 8 that he...

MINNEAPOLIS - The man arrested in Minneapolis on suspicion of associating with al-Qaida has been identified as a Canadian citizen and college student of Somali descent, a newspaper reported. The man arrested Tuesday was Mohammed A. Warsame, the (Minneapolis) Star Tribune reported in Friday editions, citing law enforcement officials who requested anonymity. Warsame is suspected of having knowledge of some of the activities of Zacarias Moussaoui — who is accused of being a Sept. 11 conspirator — when he was in Minneapolis. The newspaper said Warsame had been arrested as a material witness, but did not disclose whether he would...

FBI agents interrogating captured al-Qaeda operatives now suspect there was a plan to hijack a fifth jet on 11 September to attack the White House. Debriefings with Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the terror plot, and its suspected chief financier, Mustafa al-Hawsawi, have led to the new theory. "Many, many people are saying many interesting things," a senior FBI official was reported as saying. The interviews are being conducted as part of the probe into alleged 20th hijacker, Zacarias Moussaoui. Court papers from defence lawyers and a United States district judge show that prosecutors in the case are...

Air marshals, pilots and security officials yesterday expressed concern that airline passengers and crews will be reluctant to report suspicious behavior aboard for fear of being called "racists," after several Muslim imams made that charge in a press conference Monday at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. Six imams, or Muslim holy men, accused a US Airways flight crew of inappropriately evicting them from a flight last week in Minneapolis after several passengers said the imams tried to intimidate them by loudly praying and moving around the airplane. The imams urged Congress to enact laws to prohibit ethnic and religious "profiling."...

A knife was found onboard a SkyWest-Midwest Airlines flight from Minneapolis to Milwaukee Thursday. The Transportation Security Administrations (TSA) confirms that an Exacto-style knife was found onboard the plane Thursday morning. When the knife was found, the plane was returned to the gate at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport where passengers were taken off the plane and re-screened while the airplane was searched. No other contraband was found and all passengers were allowed to re-board. Midwest Airlines Flight YX2502 arrived in Milwaukee at 11:43 a.m, -- about one hour behind schedule.

A search warrant filed in Hennepin County connects a shooting investigation to a possible terror plot. According to court documents, four Somali teenage males were riding in a cab on June 24 the same night a man was shot in the chest around 9:00 p.m. Video surveillance at the Glendale Housing Projects captured the cab fleeing near the scene of the shooting. Police were able to identify the taxicab and located the vehicle at the Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport four days later. Inside the cab, police found a handwritten note describing acts of terrorism and bombings. Police questioned an 18-year-old relative...

A suspected terrorist, arrested in Minneapolis and held in prison for nearly 3 and a half years without a trial, is asking to be released. Mohammed Warsame is charged with federal crimes of violence and supplying support to Al Qaida. Supporters in the Muslim community packed the federal courthouse in Minneapolis Tuesday to express their concern for Mohammed Warsame. "The length of this detention, without his day in court, is causing a serious problem," said Somali Justice Center Director Omar Jamal. Warsame's attorney said it's the longest time in U.S. history someone has been incarcerated pretrial. "He's been incredibly resilient,"...