Posted on 12/29/2008 3:43:22 AM PST by Cindy
""We thought they were real UN cars carrying whitle people,"..."
Note: Another white jihadis incident.
Thanks to But Three Lefts Do for the ping to this thread.
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Mpls. Man Pleads Not Guilty to Swindling Travelers (Somali Travel Agent)
KSTP.com ^ | 10/1/09 | Mark Albert & Becky Nahm
Posted on October 1, 2009 6:37:17 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
A south Minneapolis travel agency owner who is accused of swindling travelers out of airline tickets, pleaded not guilty Thursday in Hennepin County Court.
Ali Mohamud, 35, is charged with six felony counts of theft by swindle.
Mohamud owns Amana Travel Agency, located at 1841 Nicollet Ave. S.
Mohamud is accused of taking approximately $40,000 from at least a dozen travelers by either failing to purchase their airline tickets or canceling them and keeping the cash.
The FBI is also looking into Mohamud. In August, agents searched his business as part of an investigation into Somali men missing from the Twin Cities.
Mohamud has not been arrested or charged in the federal investigation.
post no. 101 should read “”We thought they were real UN cars carrying white people,”...”
“FBI Director: Al Qaeda-Linked Somali Group Could Attack U.S.”
SNIPPET: “For the first time, the FBI director has stated on the record that the Al Qaeda-linked group al-Shabaab is no longer content to strike within the East African nation of Somalia.”
By Catherine Herridge
FOXNews.com
Friday, October 02, 2009
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and this article:
http://www.startribune.com/local/stpaul/64132882.html
Update: October 13, 2009 - 5:41 PM
ST. PAUL, Minn. - A 26-year-old man has been charged with making false statements to federal officials investigating the disappearance of as many as 20 Somali men from Minnesota.
SNIPPET: “Abdow M. Abdow, a U.S. citizen of Somali descent...”
SNIPPET: “According to a criminal complaint, Abdow lied to FBI agents about a drive he made to Nevada with other people who then left the country.”
SNIPPET: “Federal Magistrate Judge Janie S. Mayeron ruled Abdow would be eventually be released to a halfway house under certain conditions.”
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http://www2.lasvegasnow.com/docs/terror_complaint.pdf
http://www2.lasvegasnow.com/docs/terror_indict.pdf
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http://www.lasvegasnow.com/Global/story.asp?S=11348803
Investigative Reporter Jonathan Humbert and Photojournalist Alex Brauer
“I-Team: Terror-Related Arrest Began in Las Vegas”
Updated: Oct 20, 2009 8:56 PM
Video Gallery
I-Team: Terror-Related Arrest Began in Las Vegas
1:56
LAS VEGAS, NV — The
SNIPPET: “The real end, however, came in a Minnesota Federal Court. Two weeks ago, the FBI arrested Abdow Munye Abdow for two counts of making false statements to a federal official. The FBI believes Abdow lied about his trip to Las Vegas, and a passenger he was with who was on the terrorism watch list.
The Nevada Highway Patrol pulled over Abdow and four other people on October 6, 2009 for speeding. Trooper Alan Davidson, a spokesperson for NHP, said the officer on the scene began asking questions.”
SNIPPET: “Davidson says the men had $4,000 split between them and that they were headed to San Diego for a wedding. “They didn’t have any clothes for the wedding. They didn’t even know where they were staying,” Davidson said.
When pressed, the driver, Cabdulaahi Faarax, “said he was going to a wedding in San Diego, but he didn’t know who was getting wed,” Davidson said. “The driver’s story just didn’t add up.”
That driver, Faarax, was eventually run through the National Crime Information Center. Davidson says the name came back as positive on the “terrorism watch list.” When the name came up, NHP policy is to contact FBI, which the trooper on the scene did. Local FBI officials would not comment on the case, but indications are that the trooper was told to let the men leave.”
SNIPPET: “Media reports indicate the men may have been attempting to travel to Mexico through San Diego in order to fly to Somalia. There, a few of the men may have joined an Al-Qaida-connected terror resistance group.
According to the affidavit, while in San Diego, two of the men in the car told a border agent at the San Ysidro Port of Entry they were planning to fly to Mexico City through Tijuana.”
Bump. Good stop.
Yep and thank you Jet Jaguar.
They were going to a “wedding.”
Maybe the plan is to import terrorists, so the government can employ agents to root them out. In other words, immigration of undesirables is intentional, as a job creation device.
Photo and more documents at link.
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Feds: Sudbury man planned terror attacks on malls
My Fox Boston ^ | 10/21/09 | Mike Levine
Posted on October 21, 2009 1:58:09 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants
BOSTON - A pharmacy college graduate conspired with two other men on a terror plot to kill two prominent U.S. politicians and carry out a holy war by attacking shoppers in U.S. malls and American troops in Iraq, prosecutors said Wednesday.
But their plans — in which the men used code words like “peanut butter and jelly” for fighting in Somalia and “culinary school” for terrorist camps — were thwarted in part when they could not find training and were unable to buy automatic weapons, authorities said.
Tarek Mehanna worked with the men from 2001 to May 2008 on the conspiracy to “kill, kidnap, maim or injure” soldiers and two politicians who were members of the executive branch but are no longer in office, authorities said, refusing to identify the politicians. Mehanna was arrested Wednesday morning at his parents’ home in Sudbury, an upscale suburb 20 miles west of Boston.
Prosecutors said the 27-year-old Mehanna — a graduate of the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy in Boston, where his father is a professor — conspired with two other men: Ahmad Abousamra, who authorities say is now in Syria, and an unnamed man, who is cooperating with authorities in the investigation.
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“CTR Vantage: Al Shabaab’s Recruiting Efforts in the West”
COUNTERTERRORISM BLOG.org ^ | November 4, 2009 09:16 PM | By Madeleine Gruen
Posted on November 5, 2009 1:09:20 AM PST by Cindy
http://www.longwarjournal.org/threat-matrix/archives/2009/11/arrest_in_netherlands_may_yiel.php
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http://www.startribune.com/local/69713097.html
“Alleged Somali recruiter arrested, linked to Minnesota”
SNIPPET: “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.”
By JAMES WALSH and RICHARD MERYHEW, Star Tribune
Last update: November 11, 2009 - 5:45 AM
SNIPPET: “Dutch prosecutors said in a statement that the man lived in Minneapolis before leaving the United States in November 2008 and arrived in the Netherlands about one month later.
The statement said American authorities asked for the man’s arrest and are seeking to have him extradited. Wilson said he could not confirm or deny that.
According to the Dutch statement, U.S. prosecutors suspect the man of bankrolling the purchase of weapons for Islamic extremists and helping other Somalis travel to Somalia in 2007 and 2008.”
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Thursday, November 19, 2009
WWW.USDOJ.GOV/USAO/MN
Minneapolis man indicted for providing support
to Somali terrorists
A federal indictment against Omer Abdi Mohamed, age 24, was unsealed today, following
the Minneapolis man’s arrest and initial appearance in court. The indictment, returned by a
federal grand jury on Tuesday of this week, charges Mohamed, also known as “Brother Omer”
and “Galeyr,” with conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists and related charges.
Specifically, the indictment alleges that from September of 2007 to the present, Mohamed
conspired with others known and unknown to the grand jury to provide material support and
resources, namely, financial support and personnel, knowing and intending that they were to be
used in preparation for and in carrying out a violation of 18 U.S.C. 956(a)(1), which is
conspiracy to kill, kidnap, maim, or injure persons in a foreign country. Furthermore, Mohamed
allegedly provided that support during that time period. The indictment also details overt acts in
furtherance of the conspiracy. Those acts include the travel of numerous men from Minneapolis
to Somalia. The men included, among others, Kamal Said Hassan, Abdifatah Yusuf Isse, and
Salah Osman Ahmed.
If convicted, Omer Abdi Mohamed faces a potential maximum penalty of 15 years in prison
on count one, 15 years in prison on count two, and life in prison on count three. All sentences are
determined by a federal district court judge. This case is the result of an investigation by the
Federal Bureau of Investigation, and it is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney W.
Anders Folk and U.S. Department of Justice, CounterTerrorism Section Attorney William Narus.
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An indictment is a determination by a grand jury that there is probable cause to believe that offenses have been
committed by a defendant. A defendant, of course, is presumed innocent until he or she pleads guilty or is proven
guilty at trial.
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Minneapolis Somali man indicted for supporting terrorists
StarTribune ^ | 11/19/09 | James Walsh
Posted on November 19, 2009 4:30:50 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo
A 24-year-old local Somali man was indicted this afternoon in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis on charges of conspiring to provide support to terrorists.
Omer Abdi Mohamed, an unemployed employment counselor and father of a two-month-old boy, also was indicted on charges of conspiracy to “kill, kidnap, maim or injure” people in foreign countries.
Mohamed, of Minneapolis, is the sixth Somali man with local ties to be charged in connection with a two-year-old federal counterrorism investigation aimed at finding out who recruited up to 20 local men of Somali descent to return to their homeland and train and fight with the terrorist group, Al-Shabaab. The probe is considered to be one of the most widesweeping counterterrorism investigations since 9/11.
Mohamed appeared today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Franklin Noel, who agreed to release Mohamed on a $25,000 signature bond after Mohamed’s attorney, Peter Wold, argued that his client was not a risk to flee.
Wold said his client has known for months that he was the subject of a government investigation. He also said that as a young father, Mohamed has no incentive to run.
His next court appearance is scheduled for 10 a.m. Nov. 24.
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November 23, 2009
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http://minneapolis.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel09/mp112309.htm
Terror Charges Unsealed in Minnesota Against Eight Defendants, Justice Department Announces
The Justice Department announced that terrorism charges have been unsealed today in the District of Minnesota against eight defendants. According to the charging documents, the offenses include providing financial support to those who traveled to Somalia to fight on behalf of al-Shabaab, a designated foreign terrorist organization; attending terrorist training camps operated by al-Shabaab; and fighting on behalf of al-Shabaab.
Thus far, 14 defendants have been charged in the District of Minnesota in indictments or criminal complaints that have been unsealed and brought in connection with an ongoing investigation into the recruitment of persons from U.S. communities to train with or fight on behalf of extremist groups in Somalia. Four of these defendants have previously pleaded guilty and await sentencing.
The charges were announced today by David Kris, Assistant Attorney General for National Security; B Todd Jones, U.S. Attorney for the District of Minneapolis; and Ralph S. Boelter, Special Agent in Charge of the Minneapolis field office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
“The recruitment of young people from Minneapolis and other U.S. communities to fight for extremists in Somalia has been the focus of intense investigation for many months,” Assistant Attorney General Kris said. “While the charges unsealed today underscore our progress to date, this investigation is ongoing. Those who sign up to fight or recruit for al-Shabaab’s terror network should be aware that they may will end up as defendants in the United States or casualties of the Somali conflict.”
Background
According to court documents, between September 2007 and October 2009, approximately 20 young men, all but one of Somali descent, left the Minneapolis, Minnesota, area and traveled to Somalia, where they trained with al-Shabaab, a designated terrorist organization. Many of them ultimately fought with al-Shabaab against Ethiopian forces, African Union troops, and the internationally-supported Transitional Federal Government (“TFG”).
Court documents also state that the first group of six men traveled to Somalia in December 2007. Prior to their departure, the six men, as well as others in the Minneapolis area, raised money for the trips and held meetings in which they made phone calls to alleged co-conspirators in Somalia.
Upon arriving in Somalia, the men from Minneapolis allegedly stayed at safe-houses in Somalia and attended an al-Shabaab training camp. The al-Shabaab training camp included dozens of other young ethnic Somalis from Somalia, elsewhere in Africa, Europe, and the United States. Purportedly, the trainees were trained by, among others, Somali, Arab, and Western instructors as to small arms, machine guns, rocket-propelled grenades, and military-style tactics. Allegedly, the trainees also were indoctrinated with anti-Ethiopian, anti-American, anti-Isreali, and anti-Western beliefs. Two men from Minneapolis who completed the training camp later participated in an ambush of Ethiopian troops.
According to court documents, on October 29, 2008, Shirwa Ahmed, one of the men who left Minnesota in December 2007 and attended the al-Shabaab training camp, took part in one of five simultaneous suicide attacks on targets in northern Somalia. The attacks appeared to have been coordinated. Shirwa Mohamud Ahmed, also known as “Shirwa,” drove an explosive-laden Toyota truck into an office of the Puntland Intelligence Service in Bossasso, Puntland. Other targets included a second Puntland Intelligence Service Office in Bossasso, the Presidential Palace, the United Nations Development Program office, and the Ethiopian Trade Mission in Hargeisa. Including the suicide bombers, approximately twenty people were killed in the attacks.
Today in Minnesota, United States Attorney B. Todd Jones said of these cases, “The sad reality is that the vibrant Somali community here in Minneapolis has lost many of its sons to fighting in Somalia. These young men have been recruited to fight in a foreign war by individuals and groups using violence against government troops and civilians. Those tempted to fight on behalf of or provide support to any designated terrorist group should know they will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”
Joining U.S. Attorney B. Todd Jones was Ralph S. Boelter, Special Agent in Charge of the Minneapolis field office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, who added, “It is through the sustained and dedicated efforts of the Minneapolis Joint Terrorism Task Force and the support of the Somali-American community that today we are able to disclose some of the siginificant progress we have achieved in this critical investigation. At the same time, I emphasize the sole focus of our efforts in this matter has been the criminal conduct of a small number of mainly Somali-American individuals and not the broader Somali-American community itself, which as consistently expressed deep concern about this pattern of recruitment activity in support of al-Shabaab.”
Charging Documents Unsealed
The Justice Department announced that three charging documents were unsealed this morning in the District of Minnesota:
United States v. Mahamud Said Omar, 09-CR-242
On August 20, 2009, a federal grand jury returned a five-count indictment charging Mahamud Said Omar with terrorism offenses. According to the indictment, from September 2007 through the present, Omar, who is a Somali citizen but was granted permanent U.S. resident status in 1994, conspired with others to provide financial assistance as well as personnel to terrorists and foreign terrorist organizations. On November 8, 2009, law enforcement authorities in the Netherlands arrested Omar pursuant to a provisional arrest warrant. The United States has filed its request for extradition. According to documents unsealed this morning, including affidavits in support of the United States’ request for extradition of Omar from the Netherlands, Omar provided money to young men to travel from Minneapolis to Somalia to train with and fight for al-Shabaab. Omar also allegedly visited an al-Shabaab safe-house and provided hundreds of dollars to fund the purchase of AK-47 rifles for men from Minneapolis.
Omar currently is in custody in the Netherlands.
United States v. Ahmed Ali Omar, Khalid Abshir, Zakaria Maruf, Mohamed Hassan and Mustafa Salat , 09-CR-50
On August 20, 2009, a federal grand jury returned a second superseding indictment charging Ahmed Ali Omar, Khalid Abshir, Zakaria Maruf, Mohamed Hassan, and Mustafa Salat with terrorism-related offenses. These men were charged in the summer of 2009 with conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists and foreign terrorist organizations; conspiracy to kill, kidnap, maim, and injure people outside the United States; possessing and discharging a firearm during a crime of violence; and solicitation to commit a crime of violence. The indictments that detail the charges filed against these co-conspirators also were unsealed today.
None of the five defendants is in custody. All five are believed to be outside of the United States.
United States v. Cabdulaahi Ahmed Faarax United States v. Abdiweli Yassin Isse
On October 9, 2009, a criminal complaint was filed, charging Cabdulaahi Ahmed Faarax and Abdiweli Yassin Isse with conspiring to kill, kidnap, maim, or injure persons outside the United States. The affidavit filed in support of the complaint states that in the fall of 2007, Faarax and others met at a Minneapolis mosque to telephone co-conspirators in Somalia to discuss the need for Minnesota-based co-conspirators to go to Somalia to fight the Ethiopians. The affidavit also alleges that later that fall, Faarax attended a meeting with co-conspirators at a Minneapolis residence, where he encouraged others to travel to Somalia to fight and told them how he had experienced true brotherhood while fighting a “jihad” in Somalia. Subsequently, Faarax was interviewed three times by authorities and each time denied fighting or knowing anyone who had fought in Somalia.
The criminal complaint states that Abdiweli Yassin Isse also encouraged others to travel to Somalia to fight the Ethiopians. He purportedly described at a gathering of co-conspirators his own plans to fight “jihad” against Ethiopians, and he raised money to buy airplane tickets for others to make the trip to Somalia for the same purpose. In raising that money, he allegedly misled community members into thinking they were contributing money to send young men to Saudi Arabia to study the Koran. The complaint that details the charges filed against these co-conspirators also was unsealed today.
Faarax and Isse are not in custody. Both men are believed to be outside of the United States.
Guilty Pleas
The Justice Department also announced that four residents of Minneapolis have entered guilty pleas in connection with this investigation, one resident of Minneapolis awaits trial on charges that he made false statements to the FBI, and one resident of Minneapolis was just recently indicted on related charges.
United States v. Kamal Hassan, 09-CR-38
On February 19, 2009, Kamal Said Hassan pleaded guilty to one count of providing material support to terrorists, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2339A, and one count of providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2339B, respectively. On August 12, 2009, Hassan pled guilty to one count of making false statements to the FBI.
Hassan currently is in custody awaiting sentencing.
United States v. Abdifatah Yusuf Isse, 09-CR-50 United States v. Salah Osman Ahmed, 09-CR-50
On April 24, 2009, Abdifatah Yusuf Isse entered a guilty plea to one count of providing material support to terrorists, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2339A. On July 28, 2009, Salah Osman Ahmed entered a guilty plea to one count of providing material support to terrorists, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2339A.
Isse and Ahmed currently are in custody awaiting sentencing.
United States v. Adarus Abdulle Ali
On November 2, 2009, Adarus Abdulle Ali pleaded guilty to an information charging him with one count of perjury for making false statements to a federal grand jury in December of 2008, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1623.
Ali has been released pending a sentencing hearing.
Additional Pending Cases
United States v. Abdow Munye Abdow
On October 13, 2009, a federal grand jury returned a two-count indictment charging Abdow Munye Abdow with making false statements to the FBI, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1001(a)(2). The indictment alleges that on October 8, 2009, Abdow lied to FBI agents when he was questioned after being stopped during a road trip from Minneapolis to Las Vegas. Abdow purportedly told the agents only one other person was traveling with him when, according to officials, four people were accompanying him. In addition, Adbow allegedly told the agents he did not know how the rental car in which he was riding had been financed when, according to officials, he had used his own debit card to pay for the car.
Abdow has been released pending trial.
United States v. Omer Abdi Mohamed
On November 19, 2009, Omer Abdi Mohamed was arrested on charges that he conspired to provide material support to terrorists; that he provided material support to terrorists; and that he conspired to kill, kidnap, main, and injure persons outside the United States.
Mohamed was released on bond pending further proceedings.
Participants
The investigation into the recruitment of young men to join al-Shabaab and those supporting that recruiting effort has been conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation with the assistance and cooperation of the Dutch KLPD; the Dutch Ministry of Justice; Judith Friedman at the Justice Department’s Office of International Affairs; the U.S. Department of State; the embassies at Abu Dhabi, UAE; Sanaa, Yemen; and The Hague in the Netherlands; and the Department of Defense. The case is being prosecuted by W. Anders Folk, Assistant U.S. Attorney, and William M. Narus, from the Justice Department’s Counterterrorism Section, with assistance having been provided by David Bitkower, formerly of the Counterterrorism Section and currently an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Eastern District of New York.
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The Threat at Home: A Disturbing Trend Among Somali-Americans
FrontPage Magazine ^ | December 7, 2009 | Ryan Mauro
Posted on December 7, 2009 1:34:32 AM PST by TDCAnalyst
As the United States turns its attention to security threats abroad, the disturbing trend of extremism in America’s Somali communities is a reminder that there are also real and present dangers at home.
A growing body of evidence suggests that Somali communities in the Unites States have become fertile ground for terrorist groups to recruit and implant operatives. On November 23, the federal government announced eight more indictments of Somali-Americans in Minnesota on charges of recruiting members of their community to join the al-Shabaab terrorist organization in Somalia. This brings to 14 the number of Somalis from Minnesota who have been indicted for helping the Al-Qaeda-linked group.
Of the eight indicted, only one has been arrested; the rest are currently outside of the United States. Four of those previously arrested have pled guilty and two have been released while they wait to be tried. The government believes that about 20 Somali-Americans have left the state to join al-Shabaab’s jihad in Somalia, at least three of whom have died since departing. One, Shirwa Ahmed, died when he became the first American suicide bomber.
Several of those indicted attended the Abubakar As-Saddique Islamic Center in St. Paul, as did many of those who were recruited. The mosque released a statement in March saying that “Abubakar Center didn’t recruit, finance, or otherwise facilitate in any way, shape, or form the travel of those youth.”
Somali gangs are also becoming an issue in Minnesota. Shukri Adan, a former Somali community organizer, said in 2007 that there 400-500 members of his community were involved in gangs. The Associated Press reported in July that
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FBI, Somalis meet to foster dialogue with youth (MN)
StarTribune.com ^ | 12/12/09 | LIZ FEDOR
Posted on December 12, 2009 7:32:09 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo
FBI agents showed up in the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood of Minneapolis on Saturday afternoon to talk with Somali youth, but they weren’t behaving like investigators.
What unfolded for a few hours inside the Brian Coyle Center was groundbreaking. The agents, young Somali men and women and Somali elders sat on folding chairs and got acquainted with one another without an immediate crime or crisis hanging over their heads.
The event marked another step toward mutual understanding in a tense year that has brought federal indictments against 14 local Somali men accused of providing support to terrorists.
A key figure at Saturday’s meeting was Ralph Boelter, the agent in charge of the FBI’s Minneapolis office who has presided over one of the nation’s largest counterterrorism investigations since 9/11.
It was the first time Boelter had met with a large group of Somali young people.
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“Somalia, Like Yemen, Growing as Training Ground for Terrorists”
Monday, January 11, 2010
SNIPPET: “The Western face of Al Shabaab is an American, Omar Hammami, from Daphne, Ala. In propaganda videos, he goes by the name of Al-Amriki, which simply means “the American.”
The FBI is investigating the disappearance of two dozen Somali Americans into the Shabaab camps in Somalia. The camps are also drawing recruits form England, Canada and Western Europe.
“Al Shabaab controls much of southern Somalia. It has, as I said. apparently set up camps from which they have run at least several hundred foreign fighters. They’ve introduced and uh, made use of suicide bombings which up until a few years ago were virtually unknown in Somalia,” said Mark Bellamy, former U.S. ambassador to Kenya.”
come’on FBI clean up Burlington
http://www.startribune.com/local/82296722.html
“Somali terror suspect out of jail
Seattle resident is cooperating in the investigation of Minneapolis men who left to fight in Somalia.”
By JAMES WALSH, Star Tribune
Last update: January 21, 2010 - 10:03 PM
SNIPPET: “Abdifatah Yusuf Isse, 25, pleaded guilty to supporting terrorists and has been cooperating for months with investigators working on the case of up to 20 Minneapolis men who returned to jihad in Somalia. He was released after agreeing to pay $25,000 if he does not appear in court when required.”
SNIPPET: “Isse was one of the first men indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of providing material support to terrorists and conspiracy to kill, kidnap, maim or injure. Since then, 14 men have been indicted or charged in one of this country’s largest counterterrorism investigations since 9/11. Four of the men, including Isse, have pleaded guilty and are awaiting sentencing. Others are missing and are presumed to have fled to Somalia.
Isse, of Seattle, Wash., was arrested Feb. 24, 2009, at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. At the time, he said he was going to Tanzania to participate in an internship. He had previously left Minneapolis for Somalia in December 2007.”
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