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Somali Terrorist Group Targets Western Shopping Malls In Call For Lone Wolf Attacks
IBT ^ | Feb 21, 2015 | Angelo Young

Posted on 02/22/2015 5:59:04 AM PST by KeyLargo

Somali Terrorist Group Targets Western Shopping Malls In Call For Lone Wolf Attacks

By Angelo Young

The al Qaeda branch in Somalia released a video Saturday celebrating the September 2013 attack on the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya, that killed 60 people in a four-day siege. In the 66-minute video, unleashed on Twitter in both English and Arabic, al-Shabab called for attacks on specific targets in the U.S., Canada and Britain.

“If just a handful of mujahedeen [militant jihadists] fighters could bring Kenya to a complete standstill for nearly a week, just imagine what the dedicated mujahedeen could do in the West to American or Jewish shopping centers across the world,” a masked gunman says toward the end of the video. “What if such an attack were to occur in the Mall of America in Minnesota? Or the West Edmonton Mall in Canada? Or in London's Oxford Street?”

The video raises concern it could help inspire lone-wolf attacks by radicalized individuals in these countries who are teetering on committing violent acts in the name of Allah. Online social media has helped widen the audience for Islamist propaganda despite efforts by Facebook and Twitter to weed out troubling broadcasts.

While social media sites are filled with militant Islamist propaganda calls for violence (such as how to make bombs in your mother’s kitchen or praising the usefulness of Honda motorcycles to commit terrorist acts), it’s unusual for terrorists to be so specific about civilian targets. News of the video was first reported by Bethesda, Maryland, SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors activities of extremist groups.

"The English-speaking narrator in this video sounds remarkably similar to the narrator from past Shabab releases,” SITE Director Rita Katz said in a report announcing the news Saturday.

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


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; US: Minnesota; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alshabaab; attacks; banglist; homeland; isil; isis; islam; islamicterrorism; islamists; jihad; mallofamerica; malls; muslims; obama; politics; shopping; somalis; terrorists
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To: elcid1970

Islamville, northern York County, SC.


41 posted on 02/22/2015 7:29:07 AM PST by onedoug
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To: BitWielder1
Q: How many TEA Party "Lone Wolf" terrorists will it take before Media calls out the name of the pack?
A: One.

Actually the correct answer is zero. The media will blame the Tea Party before there is even a terrorist event.

42 posted on 02/22/2015 7:33:29 AM PST by Fresh Wind (Falcon 105)
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To: Bluestocking

State Department

Published February 22, 2015

Obama policy to bring Syrian refugees into US raises concern among Republicans, intelligence community

An Obama administration plan to allow Syrian refuges into the United States is raising concerns within the intelligence community and on Capitol Hill — with one GOP House leader calling it a “federally sanctioned welcome party” to potential terrorists.

The State Department has defended the plan to welcome refugees from the war-ravaged western Asia country, saying the U.S. was founded on the principles of helping such people.

However, House Republicans are concern about members of The Islamic State, whose de facto headquarters is in Syria, infiltrating the refugee system and getting on American soil.

Mike McCaul, chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security, said Friday night on Fox News’ “Hannity” show that the policy is “dangerous and reckless.”

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/02/22/mccaul-administration-policy-allowing-syrians-onto-us-soil-is-dangerous/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+foxnews%2Fpolitics+%28Internal+-+Politics+-+Text%29


43 posted on 02/22/2015 7:35:25 AM PST by KeyLargo
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To: KeyLargo

Hmmmm
Coincidence ?
Somali terrorists call for terror attack against Mall of America in Minnesota which is home to one of the largest enclaves of somali muslims.
Just coincidence of course
.
‘Local sociologists have dubbed the twin cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul as the Somali capitol of the United States, boasting a Somali population of 60,000 persons.’
.
What could go wrong in this call for jihad on US soil ?


44 posted on 02/22/2015 7:37:34 AM PST by redcatcherb412
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To: servantboy777

You’re right about the importance of not disarming normal and peaceful Americans. It keeps the peace.


45 posted on 02/22/2015 7:37:50 AM PST by JimSEA
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To: onedoug

Yeah, I know.

Where the hell is the sheriff & SLED?


46 posted on 02/22/2015 7:39:10 AM PST by elcid1970 ("I: am a radicalized infidel.")
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To: JimSEA
Could you imagine being a dad, out to eat with your family and something like this begins to take place and YOU are defenseless to protect your kids/wife?

Other than going mid evil spider monkey on the guy with a fork...you'd be helpless. Horrible thought.

47 posted on 02/22/2015 7:42:02 AM PST by servantboy777
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To: redcatcherb412

Seattle could be a prime target too....the Somalis there openly celebrated on 9/11


48 posted on 02/22/2015 7:52:25 AM PST by goodnesswins (I think we've reached PEAK TYRANNY now.....)
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To: coydog

I have my champagne ready.

The politicians and the media enabled this threat by having open borders, moving refugees here who hate this nation and then refusing to report on it, so when it happens to Them I will not she’d a single tear.


49 posted on 02/22/2015 7:57:05 AM PST by Red in Blue PA (Compared to obama, Jimmy Carter looks like Winston Churchill.)
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To: KeyLargo

Are malls still “no gun” zones?
If so, what’s the problem?
Everyone is safe.

/s


50 posted on 02/22/2015 7:57:32 AM PST by Lorianne (fed pork, bailouts, gone taxmoney)
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To: Kozak

Well that should stop any terrorist with malevolent plans.


51 posted on 02/22/2015 7:58:11 AM PST by Red in Blue PA (Compared to obama, Jimmy Carter looks like Winston Churchill.)
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To: KeyLargo

Gun-free zones: shooting ranges for outlaws.


52 posted on 02/22/2015 8:01:37 AM PST by windsorknot
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To: windsorknot

We should simply replace the Statue of Liberty with a giant NO GUNS sign.

Problem solved!


53 posted on 02/22/2015 8:02:48 AM PST by Red in Blue PA (Compared to obama, Jimmy Carter looks like Winston Churchill.)
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To: KeyLargo
praising the usefulness of Honda motorcycles to commit terrorist acts

I remember gentler times:

Honda's 1963 You Meet The Nicest People Ad

Source: Honda Image Library

(But note the two jihadist chicks with the headscarves - the warning was there! ;-))

54 posted on 02/22/2015 8:52:15 AM PST by Moltke ("The Press, Watson, is a most valuable institution if you only know how to use it.")
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To: servantboy777

Those are the things of nightmares. I have a handgun but there’s no guarantee that I’d be able it use it.


55 posted on 02/22/2015 9:53:23 AM PST by JimSEA
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To: KeyLargo

What are the odds that of the over 30,000 ‘legal’ Somalians in Minniesoda, a bad egg or two may not go Jihad at the Mall?

Like it hasn’t happened before.

Be careful who you open your door to.

Your community deserves a fighting chance.


56 posted on 02/22/2015 10:11:29 AM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Revolution is a'brewin!!!)
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To: elcid1970

When going to the Minn State Fair several years ago, I noticed many Somali men hanging around the street corners close to the MOA. Wondered what they were up to.


57 posted on 02/22/2015 10:18:09 AM PST by driftless2 (For long term happiness, learn how to play the accordion.)
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To: JimSEA
For years I’ve wondered why our malls haven’t been attacked. Three or four jihadis could strike terror that wouldn’t be reversible and further show our governments’ weakness against Islam.

I fully expect, as long as Imam obama is in office, that we will suffer the same type of attacks on civilians as Israel. At least they kicked azz in return, but the current bunch will palm them off, as somebody here mentioned, as "workplace violence" - and the media presstitues will echo that meme on receiving their memo-for-the-day.

58 posted on 02/22/2015 1:42:08 PM PST by Oatka (This is America. Assimilate or evaporate.)
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To: coydog

Um, if you recall, Ft. Hood was attacked by someone in the military! If anything, this should have brought down the wrath of citizenry, but it didn’t. Why not? The political class will excuse it and excuse it and excuse it more. There is no indication that citizenry is ready to fight back, especially if it happens during Prime Time programming.


59 posted on 02/22/2015 2:45:13 PM PST by tenger (It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for. -Will Rogers)
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To: sportutegrl
You keep using that word, (lone wolf) . . .

It does not come from me, it's the Media.
I and others on this forum are trying to point out how absurd that terminology is.
They are not lone, their support network is merely trying to be unseen.
The media is playing along with it, the language they use shows how we are supposed to think and feel.
Not buying it.

60 posted on 02/22/2015 3:41:13 PM PST by BitWielder1 (Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
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