Somali-Americans from Minnesota Leave to Wage Jihad with Al-Shabaab Terror Group
A Minneapolis man, Omer Abdi Mohamed, is scheduled to go on trial next week in federal court on charges that he aided a group of young American Somali men in their travels to Somalia to fight with the al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab terrorist organization. Two of the men that Mohamed helped leave the country conducted suicide bombings, the most recent last month which I reported on exclusively here at PJMedia. In fact, over the past few years more than two dozen Somali men from the U.S. are known to have left for the fields of jihad in Somalia.
But just as that trial is about to begin we can report exclusively here at PJMedia that a new batch of al-Shabaab recruits from Minnesota and Ohio have left the country to join the terrorist group.
Confirmation of this new crop of al-Shabaab recruits comes from award-winning Kenyan journalist Fatuma Noor, who met up with the ten new recruits ranging in age from 17 to 24 years old in Nairobi and then Northern Kenya as they were on their way to cross the border into Somalia. Noor just won the CNN MultiChoice African Journalist award for 2011 for her past work interviewing Western al-Shabaab recruits. In her current three-part series in the Nairobi Star, she also recounts her travel with the recruits to the Somali border, and how she was almost killed by al-Shabaab in Somalia for violating Islamic law by traveling without a chaperone with men who were not her relatives (only to be saved by the al-Shabaab recruits).
In her article, Noor identifies some of the American Somalis in the group:
- Nuno Ahmed from Minneapolis, who says that he’s joining al-Shabaab because “young people like me are needed there to protect our country.”
- Abikar Mohamed from Minneapolis, who states that “we are here to protect Islam and we are going to do that at all cost.”
- Abdirahman Gullet from Minneapolis, who took inspiration from his friend Burhan Hassan and Shirwa Ahmed, both of whom died with al-Shabaab (Burhan while fighting with the group, Ahmed in a suicide bombing).
- Adan Hussein from Minneapolis, who acknowledges that he “might die protecting my religion, it’s a price I’m willing to pay.” He also says that their trips were funded by some of their community elders.
- Abdinassir Osman from Ohio, who graduated from high school and joined a gang and now hopes his service with al-Shabaab will make up for any past wrongs he may have made.
- Ali Mohamud from Ohio, who decided to join up after listening to stories and exhortations from his mosque elders.
They were joined by at least three other Somalis from other countries:
- Omar Hassan from Canada, who claims that al-Shabaab in not a terrorist group but committed Muslims who are dedicated to ensuring Islamic law is observed in all Somalia.
- Khalif Abdi from Sweden, who states that his desire to join al-Shabaab is rooted in his belief that the West is in a conspiracy to get rid of Islam as a religion.
- Mukhtar Abdi from Kenya, who believes it is his responsibility to ensure Islamic law is imposed in every Muslim-majority country.
This week I called several FBI field offices that regularly handle Somali-related terrorism issues. I was told by one official, “This is the first we’re hearing about it.”
Another official said that this news “represents a complete and utter breakdown in our outreach to the Somali community”:
To have even more of these kids leave the country right under our noses without a word from the people we are working with who are supposed to be our eyes and ears means that all of this outreach over the past few years is a total failure. It doesn’t help that those we are working with are the ones recruiting these kids to go fight. … Everyone in the Muslim community and mainstream media who vilified [Rep.] Peter King and the House Homeland Security Committee who tried to look into this problem owe them a major apology.
“Somali community” Ha!
Tribe, pack, or horde would be more accurate.
Infidels trying to have an outreach program with Muslims. Yea, it works well every time.
Why are Muslims allowed into these United States? I remember, it is to help destroy America culture.
Well, when is our gov’ment going to wise up and admit, Its Islam, studid? Not radical Islam, not recruited Islam, or any such nonsense; its just Islam. I for one, want Muslim immigration banned. They are like locusts, destroying everything around them.
Well said. Its time to discard the PC and call Islam what it is.
There is a government program that works wonders each and every time it is utilized. It is called “deportation” and can be applied to most any non-citizen complainers and subversives. Somalis, Mexicans, Egyptians, Pakistanis, Lebs…the list goes on.
And, retraction of citizenship, and deportation can be applied, . . .
Two answers:
1) Shut down the attempts at outreach. If they leave they can’t come back. And no more refugees.
2) Set up volunteer locations where the young rebels can sign up to fight for the prophet. They get a free plane ticket to Diego Garcia. Then they are told to swim to Somalia (1800 miles east of Africa).
At least they are self deporting, perhaps instead of trying to out reach we ought to be deporting these muslims!
“Nuno Ahmed from Minneapolis, who says that he’s joining al-Shabaab because “young people like me are needed there to protect our country.”” Tell me again, which is your country – the US or Somalia? If the latter, don’t bother coming back.
“I was told by one [FBI] official, “This is the first we’re hearing about it.”” It’s no wonder Debbie Schlussel refers to the FBI as “Famous But Incompetent”.
“Our pleas to Homeland Security officials to deny entry to the fundraiser fell on deaf ears and the event took place as planned.” DHS remains as dysfunctional and obtuse today as they were when the Department was (unfortunately) established. Napolitano’s justification for giving equal scrutiny to an 80-year old grandma and a young Arab/Muslim male is classic. The video of a TSA agent groping a little girl while she screams “Stop touching me!”, her father standing helpless when his instinct is to protect his daughter, should make us ashamed as a nation.
That the US so readily accepted tens of thousands of Somali Muslims in the name of political correctness and openness to “underrepresented” populations is just another step in the decline of a once great and proud culture.
PC is just the excuse to inject evil into America in order to bring about the police state the ruling class so desires..
Sir George Bernard Shaw in ‘The Genuine Islam,’ Vol. 1, No. 8, 1936.
“If any religion had the chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam.”
“I have always held the religion of Muhammad in high estimation because of its wonderful vitality. It is the only religion which appears to me to possess that assimilating capacity to the changing phase of existence which can make itself appeal to every age. I have studied him – the wonderful man and in my opinion far from being an anti-Christ, he must be called the Savior of Humanity.”
“I believe that if a man like him were to assume the dictatorship of the modern world he would succeed in solving its problems in a way that would bring it the much needed peace and happiness: I have prophesied about the faith of Muhammad that it would be acceptable to the Europe of tomorrow as it is beginning to be acceptable to the Europe of today.”
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Progressive Revelation at work..
George Bernard Shaw, the popular Irish socialist and gadfly was never knighted.
Shaw was a decent looking fellow. What he had to say was ok. He would have looked and sounded alot better with a rifle ball in his head.
“Sir George Bernard Shaw in ‘The Genuine Islam,’ Vol. 1, No. 8, 1936.
Whoa! Eyeopener. Or should be for many. America is under attack from all fronts. Borders, Immigration, finances, lifestyle, families, religion.
Look to your lawmakers to find the root of all these problems. The world’s love affair with Islam will doom the human race.
He’s a Muslim so Islam comes first. Muslims in the States have said it so many times that their only loyalty is to Islam and these young Islamic Somalis of Minneapolis are needed to make sure that Islam prevails there.
…how long before one of these American Somali recruits is tasked to return home and kill Americans?
Exactly the question I was going to ask.
I firmly believe that Somalis (or Muslims, or anyone at all) who leaves the country to go fight for a terrorist organization should have their citizenships revoked and never allowed to reenter the country, ever.
what would happen to Americans of German ancestry who went back to Germany to fight for their ‘homeland’ and were found on the battlefield fighting for the nazis against Americans?
Well, vangrungy, I think my point applies. Not that anybody has been fighting Nazis for the last sixty years.
muslims are paleo-nazis.. and they worked with the nazis to kill Jews..
Did you know that a Nazi Party is running for election in Egypt?
http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/05/the_nazis_find_a_home_in_postm.html
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just sayin..
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Likely such a person was sent to the Russian Front to die for the Fatherland. I am aware of one such case, where the family returned to Germany in 1937 .
Dr. Shalit
Agreed. And arrest/deport the imams who promoted the idea and recruited them.
Firstly stop the money Saudi Arabia is bribing officialdom with and investing in these Imams.
Not to worry…I’m sure Rep Keith Ellison (D-MN) is all over this issue.
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TSA too busy fondling children and feeling up good looking women to check into groups of islamics (probably with) one way tickets to terrorist countries?
I am so glad Peter King is vindicated by this. Where is the rest of the media on this? Where are other congressmen on this?
“Somali-American…” WTF??? Please, put down the crack pipe and back away slowly. These invading savages are not Americans. They are a Fifth-Column that needs deporting. End Moslem immigration and deport the ones already here. They’re just the point guard of the umma.
Am I missing something here, but why are we still allowing people from Somalia into this country? Somalia is a failed state and is one of the most dangerous places on this planet. If EVER there was a “country” (more like a open tribal battlefield) that should be isolated from the world it’s Somalia.
I’m sure that there are some Somali immigrants who are perfectly good American citizens. But why are we taking the chance at all? Just don’t let anybody from that country here. Why are we still trying to be politically correct and allow just anybody into this country? Heck, you can’t even thoroughly and accurately check the backgrounds of the people from Somalia before they come into this country. So why let them in? And if they can’t come in, then their kids can’t become radicalized, at least not here in America.
It’s this stupid “hearts and minds” thing again. We think that if they just come here, they will learn to love us and this country. What utter nonsense. These people have only two allegiances, to Islam and to their tribes. That’s it. Better to stop a few “good” Somalians from coming into this country rather than a larger number of potential terrorists.
Because right now we have Janet Napolitano, Harry Reid, Barack Hussien Obama and Nancy Pelosi as well as Eric Holder running this country into the ground as fast as they can to make it fair.
Fair for what I am not sure, be more miserable than the crappy regions they came from and take from those that produce and give their hard earned money to those that just showed up to get some goodies so they can go home and learn to kill members of the country the came to?
You tell me why this is good policy, cause I can not see any good in it at all but I am just a gun totin hillbilly who loves this country and my family!
“why are we still allowing people from Somalia into this country?”
So liberals can prove their moral superiority: If you don’t let everyone on the planet into America, especially those who hate you, then you are a racist, fascist Rethuglikkkan. /sarc
To see what my wife (a naturalized citizen from Japan) had to go through to become a legal citizen of the US, and then see that we let scum like this become Americans, just burns me up.
I’ve always argued that Radical Islam is a convergence of Moonies and Mobsters. These young men have no freaking clue. They have no guideposts to go by, aside from the porno death cult offered them. Their culture holds them apart from American society. They live in their own little bubble. I live in the Twin Cities, and I must say that I have never seen an immigrant group hold itself so far away from the mainstream. The males are all taxi drivers & parking lot attendants (so far as I can make out); while the females have broadly entered the entry-level retail world. They do not veil themselves, but they wear the head-scarf and the long shapeless dresses. I had two Somali women living in the condo next to mine, and they were very kind and polite; but I tell ya, some of the Somali menfolk that came by were the exact opposites. And I could readily hear them bellowing through the walls. One of the girls was an absolute beauty: A-1 runway material. But anyway. The Somalis largely keep themselves isolated in high-rise housing projects on the outskirts of Minneapolis on interstate 94.
I am pleased that they seem to be confining their fringe terrorist activities to their good ol’ homeland. But I wonder how long that will last, with the Mall of America right there in their back yard. It is a worry. But hopefully they will meld in and become run-of-the-mill Americans. I have my doubts, though, because the power of the radical Islamic cult is so alluring to the young men.
As a native of the Land of 10,000 Lakes, I am compelled to make a small point: these murderous dark-age bastards are not “from Minnesota.”
The multi-culti social engineers who shoved this population down your throats beg to differ.
“beg to differ”? They’re not begging—although, they prefer to rule by fiat, when put to it, they will “rule by serving”, too, . . .
why are they here?
because marxists failed where muslims are always successful..
So will the list of terrorist supporting states now include the USA?
I ask because whoever maintains the list included Israel
U.S. Designates Israel as Country That Tends ‘To Promote, Produce, or Protect’ Terrorists;
So will it now be a matter of policy to subject citizens of Minneapolis to a special security check?
Anyway the US has now admitted its mistake “based on inaccurate information” and taken Israel off the list.
With regard to
This week I called several FBI field offices that regularly handle Somali-related terrorism issues. I was told by one official, “This is the first we’re hearing about it.”
the question remains what goes on with the intel crowd.
No doubt, you’ve heard that, policemen like coffee with their donuts? Well, the intel crowd like lattes and mochas, . . .
The US must totally stop the immigration of anyone coming from a Muslim country unless they can prove they are not terrorists. Since this may be impossible, so be it.
Yes, all Muslims are not terrorists but they have an inclination for it so why should we be put up with it?
We should reach out to the Somali muslims. Then grab them and deport them!
I was watching National Geographics on TV on the menacing & devastating effects of the illegally imported Asian Snakeheads in the American waterways.
If you think these snakeheads are bad news, wait till you see the full bloom effects of Islam on our American way of life. It going to be from the refugees of Somalia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Egypt, etc, etc.
Americans will have a infestation with no cure !!
Watch out !!