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Somalis in Twin Cities fear arrest in terror probes
StarTribune ^ | 9/8/09 | Richard Meryhew and James Walsh

Posted on 09/08/2009 4:21:29 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo

Tension is growing within the Minneapolis Somali community as it awaits the next indictments in the federal probe of the disappearances of young men who became fighters in their homeland's ongoing warfare.

So far, three Somali men have pleaded guilty to terrorism-related charges. Now several others -- who either know the men or were considering returning to their homeland to fight for a terrorist group -- are waiting to learn whether they, too, have been targeted by federal investigators.

Stephen L. Smith, a Minneapolis attorney who has counseled up to 20 local Somalis questioned by federal agents over the past 10 months, said recently that a number of people have contacted him and expressed "a heightened sense of concern" that they may be in legal jeopardy.

E.K. Wilson, special agent for the FBI in Minneapolis, has declined to comment on the case, but it is believed that new indictments may soon be announced. Wilson has said that the investigation is far from finished.

(Excerpt) Read more at startribune.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; US: Minnesota; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: fbi; somalia; somalis
Looks like the fear shoe is on the other foot.....No?
1 posted on 09/08/2009 4:21:29 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
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To: Cindy; Islaminaction

Ping.


2 posted on 09/08/2009 4:22:07 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Do you think if we sent all of the skinnies back to the sh!thole they came from anyone would notice or care?


3 posted on 09/08/2009 4:29:55 AM PDT by 43north (11.04.08: the day America committed voluntary suicide)
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To: 43north

Dear Leader would probably block that action.....


4 posted on 09/08/2009 4:49:56 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
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To: 43north
"Do you think if we sent all of the skinnies back to the sh!thole they came from anyone would notice or care?"

No, not at all.

In fact don't stop at Somalia, send all the rest of the Muzzies back where they came from too.

5 posted on 09/08/2009 4:50:19 AM PDT by sniper63 (Silent and stealthy - one shot - one kill)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo
Perhaps if the Somali Muslims in the Twin Cities made some effort to assimilate into the community and rid their mosques of those preaching antisemitism and jihad against all non Muslims they would not be suspect.
6 posted on 09/08/2009 5:08:59 AM PDT by The Great RJ ("The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money." M. Thatcher)
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To: The Great RJ

They obviously have no plans to assimilate and they are just trying to get some public sympathy in an effort to sway the public against the FBI and their investigations......


7 posted on 09/08/2009 5:12:30 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Didn’t this story already run 80 times?


8 posted on 09/08/2009 6:11:05 AM PDT by cookcounty ("Education is not the filling of a bucket, but the lighting of a fire." ---Yeats)
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To: cookcounty

It’s called an ongoing investigation.


9 posted on 09/08/2009 6:22:28 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Good, maybe they will think twice about coming here now.


10 posted on 09/08/2009 7:44:06 AM PDT by Islaminaction
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