Warsame was arrested in Dec 2003. His wife's name is, unfortunately for her, Fartun Farah.
I don't know if there is any relation besides the nationality [Somali] and the name [Farah] but a cabdriver was murdered a few months later who went by the name Hassan Farah; he had shortly after 9/11 been picked up by the feds investigating a barakat money exchange where he also was employed. It was linked to al Qaeda, but he was released without charge.
FEBRUARY 3, 2004 Tuesday : (USA : WA : FUNERAL OF SLAIN SOMALI CABDRIVER HASSAN FARAH - SEE BARAKAT WIRE TRANSFER CASE) COVINGTON -- Amid a sea of Yellow Cabs, the friends and co-workers of Hassan Farah said goodbye yesterday at a Muslim cemetery on a bitterly cold afternoon. More than 200 people of different ethnicities, most of them immigrants and half of them cab drivers, filled two parking lots and lined 256th Street Southeast for a quarter-mile. - "Friends, co-workers mourn slain cabbie ; Somali community shocked; victim described as a 'peaceful person' ," By JOHN IWASAKI , SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER, Tuesday, February 3, 2004, http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/159139_cabbiefuneral03.html
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Mourners gather at the Dar-o-Rahma cemetery east of Kent for the funeral of slain taxi driver Hassan Farah. Farah -- a husband, father of three preschoolers, Somali community volunteer, part-time cab driver and full-time assistant to bilingual students -- quietly influenced his fellow East African immigrants.
Farah was in the news shortly after the Sept. 11 terror attacks when federal agents raided the Rainier Valley offices of Barakat Wire Transfer, which was housed in a small, Somali-run grocery store and used by local Somali immigrants to send money home to Africa. Agents took everything from business records and furniture to cereal and toilet paper. Agents believed that Barakat and similar wire transfer services in other cities might have been involved in laundering money for the al-Qaida terrorist network. Farah was briefly detained, questioned and released. No charges were filed.
Mohammed Ali, a longtime friend of Farah, said Farah only worked as a clerk at Barakat.
But that contact with federal agents apparently resulted in Farah being kept under scrutiny ever since. When police ran his name through the FBI's National Crime Information Center computer index, it came back under a terrorism-related database. ---?
I remembered the cab driver getting murdered...thanks for the memory jogger piasa.