| Submit your comments on this article |
| Fifth Column |
| FBI Chief: Somali Suicide Bomber Indoctrinated in Minnesota |
| 2009-02-24 |
| Note: Up until now the theory had been that these men had been lured to Somalia and indoctrinated there. FBI Director Robert Mueller said Monday in Washington, D.C., that a Somali-American man from Minnesota who was one of several suicide bombers in a terrorist attack in Somalia had apparently been indoctrinated into his extremist beliefs while living in Minneapolis. Ahmed was driving a vehicle laden with explosives that blew up in northern Somalia in an attack that killed as many 30 people in October, according to news reports. His body was returned to Minnesota with the help of the FBI. "It appears that this individual was radicalized in his hometown in Minnesota," Mueller said. Federal authorities have said that Ahmed was one of as many as two dozen young men of Somali descent who disappeared in the past two years from their homes in the Minneapolis area after being recruited by the Shabab, a militia suspected of having ties to Al-Qaida that has waged a war against the Somali government. Some in Minneapolis' Somali community have said the young men disappeared after being radicalized at Abubakar As-Saddique Islamic Center, a Minneapolis mosque. The mosque is the largest in Minneapolis, Sherif said, drawing 10,000 to 15,000 people. So it appears that the largest mosque in my home town, with 10 - 15,000 followers, is actively recruiting suicide bombers for Jihad. |
| Posted by:Frozen Al |
| #3 Best place I ever moved away from. Al, Ice, you gentlemen have a lot of work to do if you're going to snap your state into action before it has to be retaken by force. |
| Posted by: Mike N. 2009-02-24 19:13 |
| #2 Tip of the iceberg in Minneapolis. KSTP interviewed CAIR of all things. Wonder if they even know how those terrorists are. Mpls. mosque denies link to missing Somali men |
| Posted by: Icerigger 2009-02-24 17:35 |
| #1 Has anyone investigated this "mosque" for hate speech? Didn't think so. Does this mean that those 10-15k aren't "moderate" muslims? |
| Posted by: AlanC 2009-02-24 13:50 |