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Lawmaker seeks to stop aid to Somali group in Twin Cities
StarTribune ^ | 4/21/09 | PAUL WALSH, KEVIN DUCHSCHERE

Posted on 04/22/2009 8:12:51 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo

Twin Cities activist Omar Jamal said Tuesday he has helped ensure that a suspected pirate is treated justly while in federal custody in New York.

But if a Minnesota legislative leader has his way, it will be the last pirate Jamal helps.

Jamal, executive director of the Somali Justice Advocacy Center in St. Paul, said that he spoke Monday with the parents of suspected pirate Abdiwali Abdiqadir Muse and that he has been consulting with Muse's attorneys. He said he intended to be in court Tuesday, but Muse's public defender said his presence wouldn't be necessary.

But House Minority Leader Marty Seifert, R-Marshall, responding to "tons of e-mails" from people he said were outraged by Jamal's actions, said he will seek to block nonprofit status and state grants to any organization that helps foreign citizens accused of piracy or terrorism.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; US: Minnesota; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: martyseifert; omarjamal; somalia; somalis
Marty's always had a pair....
1 posted on 04/22/2009 8:12:51 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
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To: Cindy

FYI..


2 posted on 04/22/2009 8:13:16 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (FR. ....Monthly Donors Wanted.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Why can’t we summarily execute pirates? They sail under the black falg. They’re outlaws.

No Mercy! No Quarter!


3 posted on 04/22/2009 8:24:59 AM PDT by Tublecane
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Why is my money going to help people who hate Whites and Christians and Jews?


4 posted on 04/22/2009 8:43:43 AM PDT by Leftism is Mentally Deranged (both the left and the jihadis want to destroy Western Civilization)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

yes he does...

is there pork for Somali pirates in the “Give Act” ?


5 posted on 04/22/2009 8:55:21 AM PDT by WOBBLY BOB (ACORN:American Corruption for Obama Right Now)
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To: Leftism is Mentally Deranged
Jamal said the parents reached out to his organization because his group has been involved in negotiations regarding a Nigerian ship taken by pirates.

Not only is your money going to groups who hate whites, Christians and Jews, it is going to a group who help pirates negotiate ransoms for kidnapped hostages and ships.

I guess the reason is that (a) its the "compassionate" thing to do and (b) you have too much money anyway and this is a good way to "spread it around".

But I think the foremost reason is that anything which is against America's interests - socially, economically or internationally is given very high priority at the present time.

6 posted on 04/22/2009 9:20:42 AM PDT by San Jacinto (gorebull warming -- the Socialists' Shortcut.)
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It is a scandal that this is even necessary: it means that this gaggle of foreign terrorist supporters is receiving public money.


7 posted on 04/22/2009 10:43:21 AM PDT by Godwin1
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To: WOBBLY BOB

Did you know that the two Somalis arrested in the shooting at the White Castle over the weekend are already out on bail, thanks to Omar Jamal and his org???


8 posted on 04/22/2009 2:50:44 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (FR. ....Monthly Donors Wanted.)
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