Feds to Announce Major Jihad Bust in Minnesota

What jihad? Another jihad bust in the war that doesn't exist in the minds of our betters.

I hear that Major Muslim Hasan, soldier of allah, will cop an insanity plea. Does that mean Islam is a mental illness? Or is it another jihad rape of the American justice system to advance Islam and get away with killing Americans in their war on the West?

Meanwhile, the State department is importing whole Muslim communities from Somalia. Rifqa Bary was sent to Columbus, Ohio, home to the largest Somalia Muslim population in the US.

Feds to Announce Major Step in MN Case FOX liveblogs

Federal authorities are expected to announce charges against eight more people today in a long-running investigation into how perhaps dozens of young men from the Minneapolis area were recruited to join an Al Qaeda-linked group in Somalia.

It will be the most significant and public move to date in the case.

Charges against the eight people will be announced at a joint FBI-U.S. Attorney's Office press conference in Minneapolis on Monday afternoon, a source said. Some, if not all, of the individuals will be charged with providing material support to terrorists, the source said.

Many of those charged have already been arrested, but some individuals are currently overseas, the source said. The source did not elaborate.

Beginning in late 2007 and continuing through last year, more than 20 young Americans of Somali descent were persuaded to train and fight with al-Shabaab, which is fighting to establish a Muslim state in Somalia and recently pledged its allegiance to Usama bin Laden.

U.S. officials worry that if al-Shabaab prevails, Somalia could turn into a haven for Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups.

After families in Minneapolis began to report their sons missing, the FBI launched a wide-ranging investigation.

By March federal authorities were aware that several Minnesota men who traveled to Somalia had returned to the United States, but they were not arrested immediately so that federal authorities could continue their investigation, a law enforcement source said.

One of the Minneapolis area's most popular mosques, the Abubakar As-Saddique Islamic Center in St. Paul, has become a point of interest for investigators and a subject of speculation among those watching the case.

Many of the men recruited to join al-Shabaab attended the Abubakar mosque, and some of the latest individuals to be charged have ties to the mosque, a source said.

"But don't look for that to be at the center of the announcement," the source said. The source said no mosque officials will be part of Monday's announcement.

Authorities have so far remained mostly quiet about the progress of their investigation, as indictments related to the case were sporadically being unsealed.

In July, FOX News first reported that a federal grand jury in Minneapolis had indicted three Somali-American men in the case. Two have since pleaded guilty to providing material support to terrorists, and one has admitted that he lied to investigators.

More recently, another man was indicted for lying to FBI agents, but he has pleaded not guilty.

Two weeks ago, a Somali man was arrested in the Netherlands for allegedly financing terrorist activities. U.S. authorities are working with Dutch authorities to extradite him to the United States, a source said.

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In October 2008, 27-year-old college student Shirwa Ahmed of Minneapolis became "the first known American suicide bomber" when he blew himself up in Somalia, killing dozens, according to the FBI. Since then at least four more men from Minneapolis have been killed in Somalia, according to their families.

Comments

[Henrik]

The source said no mosque officials will be part of Monday's announcement.

Why, of course!

[LiberalsCaused9.11]

Ah, Minnesota....

Land of the Franken,

Home of the Depraved.

[David Race]

Hello,

I thought Minneapolis had the largest population of Somali Muslims. Last time I checked Columbus had the 2nd largest. Maybe it has changed.

Thanks,

David

[aprilnovember811]

"Or is it another jihad rape of the American justice system to advance Islam and get away with killing Americans in their war on the West?"

This is the answer.

[Xavier]

Who the hell was president when all of these Somalians were let into the country? What is congress doing about closing down immigration from third world country especially in the light that unemployment is over 10% and the
government is broke?