http://counterterrorismblog.org/2009/07/renewed_focus_on_foreign_fight.php
“Renewed Focus on Foreign Fighters and Terrorist Threats in Somalia”
By Evan Kohlmann
(July 13, 2009)
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2155483/posts?page=69#69
Thanks to But Three Lefts Do for the ping to this post.
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2291803/posts?page=12#12
To: Islaminaction; Cindy
Read the indictment here: http://static.cbslocal.com/station/wcco/news/local/crime/09_0713_terrorindictment_missingsomalimen.pdf
12 posted on July 13, 2009 4:42:49 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (FR....Monthly Donors Wanted. I Upped My Monthly....Now, Up Yours.)
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“2 men — 1 from Brooklyn Park — indicted for aiding Somali terrorist group
Two men of Somali descent had indictments unsealed in federal court today, alleging they supported terrorists.”
By JAMES WALSH, Star Tribune
Last update: July 13, 2009 - 6:50 PM
SNPPET: “According to the indictment, federal investigators allege the men “provided material support and resources, namely personnel, including themselves, knowing and intending that the material support and resources were to be used in preparation for and in carry out” a conspiracy to kill, kidnap, maim or injure persons in a foreign country.”
According to the sparsely worded indictment, Ahmed boarded Northwest Airlines Flight 56 from Minneapolis to Amsterdam, Netherlands, with a final destination of Somalia.
The indictment contained no more details of their alleged conspiracy.
During his initial appearance, Ahmed told the judge that he worked as a part-time security guard, making $800 a month, and lives with his mother in Brooklyn Park. He was arrested on his way to work Saturday and appeared in court wearing his black security guard uniform.
He told the judge he owns no property, no car and pays rent to his mother. The judge ruled that he qualified for a federal public defender.”
69 posted on July 13, 2009 6:14:59 PM PDT by Cindy
ADDING to post no. 77:
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http://counterterrorismblog.org/2009/07/renewed_focus_on_foreign_fight.php
“Renewed Focus on Foreign Fighters and Terrorist Threats in Somalia”
By Evan Kohlmann
SNIPPET: “The last few weeks have seen a renewed focus on the issue of foreign fighters—particularly Somali-American exiles—who are traveling to Somalia in hopes of joining the militant Shabaab al-Mujahideen Movement. A former Islamic Courts Union (ICU) leader-turned Somali president Shaykh Sharif Ahmed spoke directly to the issue on Sunday, quoted by CNN as urging, “the Somali-American community not to send their youth to Somalia to fight alongside al-Shabaab... I am saying to those young men from abroad: ‘Your families fled your home to America because of insecurity. You should not return here to ferment violence against your people.”
On the same day, the New York Times published a lengthy article on the recruitment of Somali-Americans by Shabaab, along with an accompanying video presentation with analysis from a host of various Shabaab watchers, including myself.”
(Added July 13, 2009)