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Abdi described as a family man, hard worker

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Posted by Dan Darling 2004-06-15 10:00:58 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I think that this can be seen as an illustration of just how adept these sleepers are at blending in with the local community.

Or how being a jihadi terrorist doesn't stand out.

Posted by Robert Crawford 2004-06-15 11:44:54 AM|| [http://www.kloognome.com] 2004-06-15 11:44:54 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Let me guess. A quiet guy... kept to himself, mainly?

Posted by eLarson 2004-06-15 1:33:54 PM|| 2004-06-15 1:33:54 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 ...And was always polite and helpful to the neighbors?

Posted by Sgt. Mom 2004-06-15 2:51:49 PM|| [www.sgtstryker.com] 2004-06-15 2:51:49 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 "As a Somali man, I donât see any reason that you know to cause you, as a Somali man, to be an American hater," said Mohamoud Guleid of the Columbus Somali Community Association. "Weâve been helped by the United States for 10 years or more than that."

As to the Somalis in Columbus, that's more true than not. Remember, kids, these are the folks who moved here to get away from the Blackhawk Down crowd.

Posted by Mike 2004-06-15 2:55:42 PM|| 2004-06-15 2:55:42 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 From today's WaPo:

Abdi came to the United States in June 1999 after gaining asylum status earlier that year. "The government is prepared to offer evidence that with the exception of some minor biographical data, every aspect of the asylum application submitted by the defendant was false," said the prosecutors' document seeking continued detention.

The indictment charges that on April 27, 1999, Abdi applied for travel documents from the U.S. government stating he intended to go to Germany and Saudi Arabia when he planned to travel to Ogaden, Ethiopia, for jihad training. When he returned in March 2000, Abdi reentered the United States from Africa using the asylum documents gained through fraud, according to the indictment. Faris picked him up from the airport in Columbus, according to the detention document.

Prosecutors allege that Abdi, Faris and other unnamed co-conspirators then plotted to blow up a Columbus-area mall and that Abdi was instructed in bomb-making by one of the co-conspirators. The charges against Abdi could bring 55 years in prison.

Posted by Seafarious 2004-06-15 3:49:46 PM|| 2004-06-15 3:49:46 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Thanks #5!

And there ya have it. Forged documents, the "innocent until proven guilty" parroting by family and friends, the jihad training, the co-conspirator buddy, admitted al-Qaida member Iyman Faris, who was jailed previously for a plan to sabotage the Brooklyn Bridge, and . . .

the arrest! :-) ha! Way to go, our side! I detest Islamo-scum. 55 years sounds good.

Posted by ex-lib 2004-06-15 4:20:50 PM|| 2004-06-15 4:20:50 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Abdi described as a family man, hard worker

For quite a few of the accused, there are those who will claim that they are "family men", or "hard workers". Put the guy on trial and sort it all out in court.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2004-06-15 6:10:34 PM|| 2004-06-15 6:10:34 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 I keep posting the following:

"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banners openly. But a traitor moves among those within the gate freely, and his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys are heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears no traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to their victims and wears their face and their garments, and appeals to the baseness which lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of the nation; he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to be feared."

This applies to the mass of "moderate" America born muslims and to new inmmigrants like the one in question here.

Posted by Anonymous4617 2004-06-15 11:51:54 PM|| 2004-06-15 11:51:54 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 OOPs!!
I forgot to post the link:
http://home.wanadoo.nl/rhodesia/myths.htm

Posted by Anonymous4617 2004-06-15 11:54:26 PM|| 2004-06-15 11:54:26 PM|| Front Page Top

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