Posted on 02/23/2009 7:04:16 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo
The FBI now says a Minneapolis man may have been the first U.S. citizen to carry out a terrorist suicide bombing.
FBI Director Robert Mueller said Monday, Shirwa Ahmed, who killed himself in an attack in Somalia in October, was recruited in the United States, specifically in Minnesota.
Mueller spoke in front of the Council on Foreign Relations.
In November, 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS broke the story of young Somali men, missing from the Twin Cities and their possible connection to Ahmed.
Several months ago, the FBI and Justice Department began investigating cases of men of Somali descent who returned to Somali to join the conflict between an Islamic militant group and Ethiopian and African Union troops. The agency confirmed to ABC News that some of the men returned to the U.S. after fighting in Somalia.
The FBI has been looking at possible cases in Minneapolis, Boston, Columbus, Ohio, Seattle, San Diego and Washington DC.
US officials believe that the group could merge with elements of Al Qaeda's east African network and further gain influence destabilizing the region.
Mueller said, "World politics often shape terrorist and criminal threats against the United States… A crisis in the horn of Africa may well have a ripple effect in Minneapolis."
Ping..
Go to any U.S. airport and at the 45% of the 11 I have been to - I have seen Somalis “working” their cleaning, working in restaurants and other areas. Obama will import more as they can destabilize a country very quickly.
I’m glad they referred to this sleazebag as a “U.S. citizen” because he DEFINITELY ISN’T AN AMERICAN!
Thanks for the ping ButThreeLeftsDo.
I thought there might have been another American before him, but maybe I’m thinking of those who went to do jihad in foreign lands and got killed.
Anyway, I’m glad this is public information.
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Shirwa Ahmed... sounds... Amish?
This is out of control and the government cannot/will not help us.
And then, they want my guns....
He probably only did it out of frustration during the eight years of failed Bush policies. And he was losing his house after being “responsible” in paying his mortgage almost on time, some of the time.
“those who went to do jihad in foreign lands and got killed.”
There’s some good news.
Ellison's constituents needing to rush home and vote for Obama.
Well, that is one theory out the window.
You see, I was reading an issue of Psychology Today or something like it a year back... and it had an interesting article that most of the young men recruited for suicide bombing got roped in because of their socio-economic situation. They cannot get mates.
Most Arab countries allow polygamy which means the poor youths get squeezed out. So what to do? Aha! I know promise them a bunch of virgins in heaven...
Yep.
Honestly, this makes steam come out of my ears.
Our leaders couldn’t have mismanaged this situation worse if they tried. And I’m convinced they did try, only to screw us over.
Oh, we never knew bad loans could hurt the nation this bad...
Oh, we never knew allowing a terrorist element to exist in our nation could cause problems...
Oh, we never knew how bad things were going to get if we allowed illegal immigration to continue...
Oh, I never knew I had to take a leak or I’d wet myself.
What the hell type of drugs were these people at the top on, or are still on?
Shirwa Ahmed? a suicide bomber?
whoa! the FBI is getting some serious work done!
But of course, the Somali “community” resents any attempt to “profile” its members.
“We’re all good citizens, Mr. FBI man. We’re worried about our youths gone missing. Please help us!”
Horsesh*t. How long before some of those youths return here with homicide bomb belts?
“Ellison’s constituents needing to rush home and vote for Obama.”
Cedar-Riverside is deep in the heart of Ellison’s home district..
Home of the largest concentration of Somalis in Minnesota, and probably, the USA......
Shirwa Ahmed... sounds... Amish?
ROTFLMAO.
What i really hope is that, before he left to blow his a$$ up in Somalia, did he have time to cast his absentee ballot for Al Franken?
If not, Al will still “find” it!
I’d say that that Muslim convert who blew himself up outside the football stadium in Norman, Oklahoma, after having been turned away twice from stadium entrances by guards suspicious of his backpack, was probably the first U.S. suicide bomber.
But the FBI covered it up.
These, boys and girls, are what are known as "euphemisms."
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