Authorities Believe Somali Terrorist Group al-Shabab Conducted Recruiting Activities in Minneapolis
- Posted on July 16, 2011 at 7:51pm by
Christopher Santarelli
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Since the fall of 2007, at least 21 men have left Minnesota for Somalia, where authorities believe they joined the terror group al-Shabab to allegedly take up arms against the Ethiopian army. The Minneapolis-area Somalis held secret meetings in 2007 to plan the trips, created fake itineraries to fool family members and challenged one another about their commitment, prosecutors contend in a court filing.
Eighteen people have been charged in Minnesota in connection with the case, including Omer Abdi Mohamed, who goes on trial next week on terror-related charges including recruiting young Somali’s from Minneapolis to join the Al Qaeda-linked terrorist group.
Mohamed never traveled to Somalia, but he is accused of helping others who did. His attorney calls the allegations ridiculous.
According to prosecutors, starting in September 2007, Mohamed and others conspired to raise money to send men to Somalia to violently oust the Ethiopians. Others were also recruited to the cause. The group held meetings at mosques and restaurants, and took measures to keep things secretive.
“The defendant and his conspirators strove to keep the plan secret, reminding members not to discuss it with anyone outside of the conspiracy, and policing entry into the group,” prosecutors said.
Mohamed and others went to malls and apartments, falsely telling members of the Somali community they were raising money to build a mosque or help relief efforts in Somalia, prosecutors said. The money actually went to the travelers, who planned to join one group member’s relative — a senior member of al-Shabab — in Somalia.
The document said Mohamed and another man stayed behind to provide financial support to travelers. It also says Mohamed advised his coconspirators to listen to a lecture by radical Muslim leader Anwar al-Awlaki about the path to jihad, and that at least one person did.
“They challenged members of the conspiracy who had planned to travel, questioning their commitment, dedication, and knowledge of both the religion and events in Somalia, before ultimately assisting them with the trip,” the document said.
The document said some of the men went to Somalia through Saudi Arabia or through Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and eventually met each other and went to safe-houses. Some Minneapolis men helped clear brush for a training camp, and some participated in a July 2008 ambush of Ethiopian troops along a road in Somalia — the preparations and the ambush were filmed as part of a propaganda video.
Prosecutors say in that video, a man from Minneapolis encourages more men to join the fighters in Somalia.
The Washington Post recently reported that Minneapolis has become the most concentrated center of Islamic radicalization in the U.S. since 9/11. It was among the 10,000 Somali immigrants in downtown Minneapolis that Shirwa Ahmed, the first U.S. citizen to carry out a terrorist suicide bombing overseas, was radicalized. Abdullahi Ahmed left Minnesota two years ago for Somalia where he continued to train, and would become a suicide bomber killing himself and three others in late May of this year.
Somalia has not had a functioning government since 1991, when warlords overthrew a socialist dictator and then turned on each other, causing chaos in the African nation of about 7 million people. In 2006, Ethiopian soldiers, which many Somalis viewed as abusive, occupied parts of Somalia and a militant group called al-Shabab fought against against them. The U.S. declared al-Shabab a terrorist organization in early 2008.
The Associated Press contributed to this article.
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Comments (89)
wewantchillywilly
Posted on July 16, 2011 at 11:36pmi used to live right near “somali village” on cedar ave. in minneapolis. none of this is surprising. it’s a culture that simply does NOT mix well with Americans. it is oil and water.
and what’s even better is we have a congressman that damn near encourages the behavior. Thanks, Keith Ellison! MN voters are the biggest morons on the planet.
Report Post »Fina Biscotti
Posted on July 17, 2011 at 5:05amdo not forget about VOTE RIGGING with Al Franken in Minnesota – stealing the US Senate seat – w forged and fraudulent absentee ballot votes.
For over TWO Years, Holder has had exact evidence of ELECTION FRAUD in the State of Minnesota – and how these VOTE RIGGING scheme occurred – but refuses to prosecute it – bc any forged and fraudulent absentee ballot vote for Al Franken – was also a forged and fraudulent vote for Barack HUSSEIN Obama in the 2008 presidential election.
Maybe that is how Muslim Congressman Keith Ellison – the nasty schemer – also acquired his seat…..
Report Post »roostercogburn
Posted on July 16, 2011 at 11:27pmWow, the FBI finally woke up, what a bunch of clowns, we have know this for years, they arrested muslum bombers around the world that were not only recruited in Minneapolis but right here on University avenue in St. Paul, both places are still open and working on getting new bombers ready.
Report Post »I think it’s time to stop the islam virus, nothing but hate death and murder, just stop it right now.
thepatriotdave
Posted on July 17, 2011 at 12:11am“Authorities Believe Somali Terrorist Group al-Shabab Conducted Recruiting Activities in Minneapolis”
Wasn‘t that at Obama’s latest fund-raiser?
http://www.allenwestforpresident.us
Report Post »MartyTr
Posted on July 17, 2011 at 12:38amJust called my Senators and Reps in CA, and Gov. Dayton, Klobuchar, Franken in Minn.. I call every time I read an article like this. Hope everyone else is. I close with, muslims keep blowing up people and yelling allah akhbar.
Report Post »MommaRex
Posted on July 17, 2011 at 8:56amTotally agreed, Rooster! My response was, “Big surprise”. If they wouldn’t refuse to racially profile, that might help too. And when the police stop tthem for something else, they need to check with the FBI & BCA as well. But overall, this state (and especially the Twin Cities) are so liberal we’ve got a safe-haven and paid santuary to immigrants.
Report Post »Stuck_in_CA
Posted on July 17, 2011 at 9:47amSurprise, surprise — Keith Ellison’s 5th Congressional District part of it?
Report Post »robert
Posted on July 17, 2011 at 11:26amHomeland Security is doing the American Public no favors by refusing to openly reveal that there are Muslim training camps here on US soil.
They keep saying they don‘t want to prejudice anybody’s opinion about Muslims in general as to the reason they’re so secretive about the whole affair, yet they don’t mind scaring the public into believing ordinary conservative groups are extreme and dangerous, when such allegations are a blatant lie and are used by them for political purposes.
I searched the internet and came up with two of the most informative links on Jihad camps in the US:
Jihad Training Camps in USA
http://frontpagemag.com/2009/11/03/jihadi-training-compounds-u-s-a-by-ryan-mauro/
What would Japan, China, or South Korea would never allow such sedition to take place in their countries, but here and in Europe it’s commonplace. It’s as if the elites think making us more “diverse” is more important than protecting the country.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5jlf0_are-jihadists-training-in-rural-ame_news
Report Post »getalong
Posted on July 17, 2011 at 1:23pmMinnesota – land of Jihad. Wake up you stupid progressive Minnesotans. These people are living the high life in Minnesota. They own business and pay no taxes, they live in free houses, have free healthcare, food, clothing, and drive new cars. And all the while they plan to kill Americans.
Report Post »bigdawg
Posted on July 16, 2011 at 10:53pmYou know, come to think of it… has anyone heard from Al Franken lately?
Report Post »rox
Posted on July 16, 2011 at 11:04pmMy State of Minnesota has lost all it’s respect.
Report Post »MartyTr
Posted on July 17, 2011 at 12:42amKnow how you feel Rox, I’m in CA. What a mess. To many of our states are. Hope all these commie/islamic colleges go broke and shut down soon.
Report Post »SilentReader
Posted on July 16, 2011 at 10:34pmWhat else is new? Of course they are committing treason. They’ve been doing it with impunity.
In their mosques and in their Islamic Centers and in their Muslim Student Associations where they are pledging allegiance to Islam and Sharia. All their entities run by the Muslim Brotherhood, whose leader, Yusuf al Qaradawi, would do anything to kill a Jew from his wheelchair.
All the thug leaders are aiding and abetting them in every country in the world with the complete backing of the complicit U.N. that we are continuing to fund, and the corrupt E.U. who have laws whereby they are dragging everyone in court if they as much as criticize these frenzied Islamic killers.
And now that Kangaroo Court, the Hague, is trying General Mladic who committed the unpardonable sin of defending his people the Serbs after the Muslim General Oric had brutally attacked 50 Serbian Christian villages and horrifically tortured the Serbian unarmed civilians in them, going as far as to crucify them and gouge their eyes out and make them drink other Serbian’s blood from their slit throats.
Lovely people the Islamists. And they are aided and abetted by the dhimmi thug-leaders in the West. People like Clinton who bombed the Serbian Christian villages in order to appease the Islamist murderers there. Ah, yes. If you knew the treacherous deals he made there with the land swaps he forced on the Serbian people giving the Serb’s land, that they had lived on for a thousand years, to the Isl
Report Post »Stuck_in_CA
Posted on July 17, 2011 at 9:50amRight on. I still can’t believe Bubba bombed those people, in our name! They were trying to rid themselves of the evil that is Islam.
Report Post »Tracking
Posted on July 17, 2011 at 6:06pmExcellent post, comments and information.
Report Post »One thing: This is the United States of America and we are ruled by American Law. Why doesn’t aht mean much anymore? If our Leaders and elected Politicians and the DOJ didn’t want this type of activity going on, it would be. That includes Congress, who through their constant whining and complaining, regarding the VERY laws they put into effect. Perhaps it will be up to Americans to save and preserve America. Why have Travel Visa’s and Passports not been revoked/denied? The article states they are “flying in and out of the country at will”. Why is that I wonder? I’ll tell you why. Our DHS and many other Agencies use these camps and people to “watch and gather survellience” hoping it will lead to bigger fish. That is exactly what happened at Fort Hood. Everyone knew and done nothing. Look at the consequences of that. It got out of hand and neither hand knew what the other was doing, if anything. Everyone involved thought the “other” was survelling and watching”. Trouble was, no one was and they dropped the ball and many innocent people died. All in the name of information gathering but at whose expense?
When a disease strikes, like cancer, we don’t hesitate to target, profile and eradicate and/or treat it, using everything we know about it. Terrorism is a disease that kills human beings by the thousands every day, all over the world. Yet we do not profile this killer because it is “human”, yet it kills humans.Use e
sooner12
Posted on July 16, 2011 at 10:22pmI say, muslims should not be allowed in this country.
Report Post »Rightsofman
Posted on July 16, 2011 at 10:44pmBelieves or knows – Jay Edgar Hoover would have raided the joint even if Bobby Kennedy said no. Oh the good old days when sedition was against the law you actually would get arrested. We still had a chance to defend our way of life.
Report Post »Gypsy123
Posted on July 16, 2011 at 10:19pmMuslims move into country’s to take over and promote Islam
Report Post »CatB
Posted on July 16, 2011 at 10:55pmand kill the infidels.
Report Post »tom
Posted on July 16, 2011 at 10:09pmNot sure, but is this where Muslim Congressman Ellison is from?
Report Post »rox
Posted on July 17, 2011 at 10:35amYes
Report Post »booger71
Posted on July 16, 2011 at 10:04pmDuh
Report Post »Robert-CA
Posted on July 16, 2011 at 9:37pmLittle by little they’ll get there .
Report Post »Do NOT allow muslim thugs to do anything in here including sharia law .
tmkphx1962
Posted on July 16, 2011 at 9:24pmSomeone named mohammed is involved. Go figure.
Report Post »coryf076
Posted on July 16, 2011 at 9:21pmNot surprising at all…I lived in Minneapolis 5 years ago….half of the Somali population drives a cab or works at the massive Wells Fargo operations centers they have there…..One of WF largest operations centers in the US is in Shoreview MN by the way….really nice knowing they process and handle all you backroom financial transactions, eh?
Report Post »Cheetosareus
Posted on July 16, 2011 at 9:21pmIf anyone knows of any Muslim training camps for God’s sake rat them out and get them arrested. They are plotting the overthrow of the USA. Where the h*** are our “elected representatives and senators” on this mess. They are too busy plotting how to get re-elected to speak out and the democrats are ok with the jihadists since their president is one.
Report Post »Mil-Dot
Posted on July 17, 2011 at 1:44amI can’t help but laugh at all of the muslim loving prog Dems. They will be the first ones to go if the muslims had their way. Ha ha aha
Report Post »Lucy Larue
Posted on July 17, 2011 at 2:08pmCHEETOSAUREUS,
No…, they are not too busy trying to get reelected. Not at all.
They are busy tolerating Congressman Keith Ellison who was sworn into office with his hand on the Koran. They are busy practicing diversity and multiculturalism.
U.S. Politicians are no different than those in England,France, Holland, Denmark,Norway, yadda, yadda. London is now laughingly called “LONDONSTAN”. Politicians the world over APPEASE Cheetosareus. They apppease.
They are to the war on terror as Chamberlain and Vichy were to Hitler and the Nazis.
Not all of our politicians are Idiots. There are those who sound the alarm.Sue Myrick(N.Carolina),Allan West(Fl.), Peter King(N.Y.). Sadly they are mocked and attacked just as Churchill was when he tried to warn of the Nazi threat
Scary…,non? History does repeat.
Everyone on this thread should go back and reread SILENTREADER’s post..
If you are reading this almost a decade after September 11, 2001 and you do not know the terms DHIMMI,TAQIYYA,WAHABI,SHARIA LAW(for starters)…,then you are abetting what is happening in this country and throughout the world.
I am not lecturing. I am frightened. I want other Americans to get their learn on.
I have read many books on the threat of Islamofacism. Two great “STARTER” books are; “Because They Hate” by Brigitte Gabriel and “Infidel” by Hirsi Ali. Both of these women chronicle the cancer of this hateful blight in their own countries.
The U.S. under attack on so many fronts.
Report Post »the hawk
Posted on July 16, 2011 at 9:02pmdid the title say CONDUCTED ?
Report Post »And theres No radical islam! Christian extreamist the justice Dept. wants !
coryf076
Posted on July 16, 2011 at 9:29pmJust so you all know….a good number Somali’s works for a massive Wells Fargo operations center…..One of their largest operations centers in the US is in Shoreview, MN….I am not joking about this one bit…..WF is a massive organiztion that prides itself on being “diverse,” and hires accordingly….these people process and handle a good amount of customers financial transactions….
Report Post »llotus
Posted on July 16, 2011 at 9:01pmAre these the same murdering thugs that rode around in the back of toyota and dotson looking trucks with many guns, killing everything that moved or breathed? Lotus.
Report Post »Fantastic Four
Posted on July 16, 2011 at 9:00pmE. Holder said 80% of the people think this is a lie so everything is OK
Report Post »Fantastic Four
Posted on July 16, 2011 at 8:56pmPeople please move on there is nothing to see Thats what Eric Holder told me….he said he is on his way to make sure that they get ‘SOCIAL JUSTICE”
Report Post »Carol Ingian
Posted on July 16, 2011 at 8:47pmBoycott, Boycott, Boycott!!!!!!
Report Post »Don’t give a penny to muslim business, hotels, gas stations, convenience stores, etc.
I for one will not lend support to our own demise.
Thegreatone2012
Posted on July 16, 2011 at 10:01pmu r an idiot
Report Post »Pigpen
Posted on July 16, 2011 at 10:37pmNo, she is NOT an idiot. “CAROL INGIAN” knows that the stakes are REAL, that the danger is REAL, and that the muslims here in the US are colonists for the filthy “religion of peace”. So go stick your head in the sand, “THEGREATONE2012”, I am sure that the shari’a law set will know just what to do with those parts of you that are left exposed above ground.
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on July 16, 2011 at 11:14pmThegreatone2012
Report Post »u r an idiot
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Plz xplain y ?
Steve
Posted on July 17, 2011 at 12:55amWhy is she an idiot?
Report Post »rienheart
Posted on July 16, 2011 at 8:45pmLots of other places here in America are also being Radicalized. Virginia has Jihad Camps linked to Mosques. They say they are being monitered, but it wouldn‘t surprise me if they weren’t being supplied by our Government in one of their gun running Operations, like Fast and Furious. Probably calling it “Camel Dung and Sand” . Of course they won’t be prosecuted or even tried. Eric Holder will see to that.
Report Post »Captain Crunch
Posted on July 17, 2011 at 12:05amColumbus Ohio is another city where the Somoli rat nests are florishing. Rudest most base people you would ever want to avoid!
Report Post »michaelmoron
Posted on July 16, 2011 at 8:42pmObama just issued an Executive Order to bring 60-80 thousand Somali Refugees be brought to the U.S. with no background checks.
Report Post »the proof is at You Tube:
“Beware,MUSLIMS building more mosque’s in the Bible belt of America”
ProbIemSoIver
Posted on July 16, 2011 at 8:57pmlink :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mssZiCpS768
Report Post »Sola Scriptura
Posted on July 16, 2011 at 8:35pmLots of Somalis in MN. I should know I live in the Twin Cities. *sigh*
Report Post »bren5102
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 4:55amOur family was visiting the Mall of America in 2006, and we well never go back,we thought we were actually in another country. So sad when you are afraid in your country, especially at a lovely mall like the all of America.
Report Post »Brasil2520
Posted on July 16, 2011 at 8:22pmAnd America still keep’s letting them in, why ?
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on July 16, 2011 at 8:31pmFor the fundamental transformation of the downright mean country donchano?
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on July 16, 2011 at 8:38pm@Cheezwhiz — indeed.
Report Post »Brasil2520
Posted on July 16, 2011 at 8:54pmThe congress of 1907 wouldn’t put up with this, in 1907 they created the Dillingham Commission to examine the impact of immigrants on America. ( The panel recommended curtailing immigration from southern and eadtern Europe )
The congress of today, even after 9/11, does nothing. Bring back the good old days !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4hlpIX8WrE
Report Post »ProbIemSoIver
Posted on July 16, 2011 at 9:10pmYou are correct. the congress of 1907 were real Americans. the Progressives Started their assault on our country around 1910, if I am not mistaken.
Report Post »Teaparty-grammy
Posted on July 16, 2011 at 9:32pmBecause Obama is importing them to work for the meat processing companies. Those meat processors don’t care WHO they let in the country, as long as they get cheap labor. We have a colony of them right down the road from us, working at a Tyson Chicken plant. We see them all the time at the local Wal-Mart, and they always have cases and cases of bottled water in their shopping carts. We wonder why they are storing up all that water?
A lady who works for Tyson told us the government pays to bring them in, supplies them with housing, a car, etc. Tyson denies it, but they are ALWAYS getting “deals” like that from the government, like special tax breaks, etc. to subsidize their labor force. They’ve been in trouble more than once for importing illegals from Mexico to work in their plants. They deny that, too–it’s always the act of “a rogue manager acting on his own authority”. They learned that trick from Wal-Mart’s playbook–that is what Wal-Mart always says when they get caught forcing employees to work off the clock through lunch breaks and after work.
Report Post »Brasil2520
Posted on July 16, 2011 at 9:33pmHad 9/11 happened on 9/11/1907, America would have owned Saudi Arabia, and all immigration from the Middle East would have stopped that day !
Report Post »Brasil2520
Posted on July 16, 2011 at 9:59pmYou called it GRAMMY, cheap labor, and just like with the cheap labor from blacks, and Mexicans once those evasive species start to breed out of control, like in Brasil, then we are doomed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNx4oOmDa9o
Report Post »HeWalksOnWater
Posted on July 16, 2011 at 8:20pmBill Clinton.This too is on YOU.
Report Post »chips1
Posted on July 16, 2011 at 8:14pmYou mean to tell me that their lawyer said the allegations are ridiculous? I thought Johnny Cochran died!!!
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on July 16, 2011 at 8:29pmCochran is dead ,
Report Post »but now we have Jose Baez
jhaydeng
Posted on July 16, 2011 at 8:10pmWhere do you start!
Report Post »LadyIzShy
Posted on July 16, 2011 at 8:03pmwhy is this no surprise? Ya hear whispers like this for years. sigh
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on July 16, 2011 at 8:08pmWashington Post recently reported that Minneapolis has become the most concentrated center of Islamic radicalization in the U.S. since 9/11.
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SINCE 9/11 ?
Really ? Where did Zacharious Moosawi come from ? What year was that ?