Minneapolis a Center for Jihadi Recruitment?

November 11, 2009 | al qaeda, america

According to MSNBC, Dutch prosecutors said Tuesday they have arrested a 43-year-old Somali man wanted by U.S. authorities for allegedly financing Islamic extremist terrorists.

Prosecutors said in a statement the man lived in Minneapolis before leaving the United States in November 2008; he arrived in the Netherlands about one month later.

Meanwhile, a source in Minneosta writesw that suspicion is now shared by counterterrorism officials and the FBI, who are probing whether al-Shabab or other Somali Islamic groups are actively recruiting in a few cities across the United States. The officials say as many as 20 Somali-Americans between the ages of 17 and 27 have left their Minneapolis homes in the past 18 months under suspicious circumstances. Their investigation deepened when one of the missing men, Minnesotan Shirwa Ahmed, blew himself up alongside other suicide bombers in Somalia last October, killing dozens of al-Shabab’s political opponents and civilians. Ahmed had also prayed at Abubakar, and within weeks the FBI put the imam of the mosque, Sheik Abdirahman Ahmed, on a no-fly list. Among the questions investigators are asking: Who persuaded the young men to go? Who paid for their flights? And what role, if any, has the mosque played in their alleged recruitment?

Gosh. I hope there isn’t an ANTI-MOSLEM BACKLASH because of these kinds of reports. We wouldn’t want our Moslem citizens to feel uncomfortable because their children are going overseas to train to be terrorists, would we? Perhaps, if the Moslem community were so concerned about what people will think about this, they will HELP THE FBI find these guys before they kill Americans? They ARE their children, aren’t they?

  1. 28 Responses to “Minneapolis a Center for Jihadi Recruitment?”

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