Posted on 12/12/2009 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at startribune.com ...
Our local PD was instructed, a couple of years ago to stop arresting illegals and instead, attend mandatory classes at the vo-tech to learn Spanish.....
FYI..
midnight basketball sucks less than being a pirate, i guess.
Ticks me off that they are importing these problems with the Refugee Resettlement Program.
Yeah, I’m sure young Somali men want to know what the FBI does. They already read the New York Times to find out how the FBI does it.
Yep...
Yet again, the Feds pull their pants down for Islam.
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Sounds just like the UK, talk, talk, talk, but nothing changes.
I’m in a conversation with a friend of mine in the UK and he continues to blow me off on this topic, snickering about catholic priests being worse than head-choppers.....
Thanks ButThreeLeftsDo.
Kind of reminds me of the Palestinians and Israelis.
Talk, suicide bombing, talk, explosion, talk, qassams, etc.
On the other hand, maybe talking talking will inspire someone or a few to feel comfortable enough to talk to the alphas and leos in a meaningful way.
On the other hand...
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Time will tell.
Unbelievable. Ask him if Christians are trying to impose a set of barbaric religious laws on the UK. Or about all the Muslim on non-Muslim rapes there. But he sounds like one of those leftists that will never face reality.
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The Somalis’ affection for the FBI is about the same as Hannibal Lecter’s...maybe a little less since I’m sure there were no female agents at this travesty meeting.
Good point.
I did some looking at video news footage attached to the story and the only females I spotted were somali...
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