Posted on 10/02/2009 3:23:37 PM PDT by nickcarraway
For the first time, the FBI director has stated on the record that the Al Qaeda-linked group al-Shabaab is no longer content to strike within the East African nation of Somalia.
They could strike the United States. That grim assessment is the first time the FBI director or any other senior law enforcement or intelligence official has stated on the record that the Al Qaeda-linked group al-Shabaab is no longer content to strike within the East African nation of Somalia.
During a hearing on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, FBI Director Robert Mueller was asked if members of al-Shabaab, which translates as "mujahideen youth," would send American recruits back to the U.S. to launch attacks.
"I would think that we have seen some information that the leaders would like to undertake operations outside of Somalia," Mueller told the Senate Homeland Security Committee.
Mueller said he is "absolutely" concerned that Americans who traveled to Somalia to train as terrorists would have U.S. legal status and would therefore be able to return to the United States and carry out attacks.
A U.S. counterterrorism official told FOX News that al-Shabaab has exploded since 2006, and it is becoming a full-fledged Al Qaeda affiliate, similar to Al Qaeda in Iraq. Initially the group's militias fought against the Somali government and Ethopian forces who are against an Islamic state in East Africa, the official said, but now the group's focus is turning toward the establishment of a "caliphate" or broad Islamic state not limited to Africa.
In fact, in an exclusive briefing on Thursday, a U.S. counterterrorism official told FOX News that al-Shabaab's leadership is bona fide Al Qaeda. In many cases, the operatives who guide the group in East Africa have pledged allegiance to Usama Bin Laden in person, and in some cases the
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Both the DemonRAT Party and the Republicans have betrayed the interests and future of white Americans to pander for votes. But the Democrats definitely deserve the most blame for the current state of affairs in the US.
Your linked is fraked.
Heads up and be VERY vigilant Minneapolis.
Take the bus, forgo taking a cab.
Minneapolis needs to worry, and be very vigilant.
LMAO, was typing same thing, same time. I live just south of the cities.
And if you study Islamic history, diversity is what brought down their greatest empire, Al-Andalus, now known as Spain.
We don't spend any time studying it, but you had better believe the Islamists do.
The whole world knows Obama is weak - that’s a welcome flag to our enemies.
It all started when folks started misinterpreting the 14th amendment. Anchor babies who have parents not subject to the jurisdiction of the state in which the baby is born are NOT US citizens.
Heads up Maine!
www.dni.gov/testimonies/20110210_testimony_clapper.pdf
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America’s newest terrorist threat: Officials eye Somali extremist group Al-Shabaab”
BY JAMES GORDON MEEK
DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU
Thursday, February 10th 2011, 12:12 PM
SNIPPET: “WASHINGTON - America’s top counterterror officials for the first time warned Thursday that they expect a Somali extremist group to emerge as a major new threat to the U.S. homeland.
The Al-Shabaab “youth movement” is stocked with dozens of Somali-Americans who have flocked to the lawless Horn of Africa country to fight the weak U.S.-backed transitional federal government.
“We remain vigilant that al-Shabaab may expand its focus from fighting to control Somalia to plotting to attack the (U.S.) homeland,” Director of National Intelligence Lt. Gen. James Clapper told a congressional hearing.
Clapper said al-Shabaab’s “cadre of Westerners includes American converts, some of whom have assumed leadership positions.””
stepping back in time...
www.fbi.gov/news/testimony/eight-years-after-9-11-confronting-the-terrorist-threat-to-the-homeland
Robert S. Mueller, III
Director
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
Washington, DC
September 30, 2009
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stepping back in time...
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/10/02/fbi-director-al-qaeda-linked-somali-group-attack/
“FBI Director: Al Qaeda-Linked Somali Group Could Attack U.S.”
By Catherine Herridge
Published October 02, 2009
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