Posted on 05/18/2010 4:34:31 PM PDT by Cindy
SNIPPET: "HOUSTON -- A Homeland Security Alert is asking Houston police and Harris County Sheriff’s deputies to keep their eyes open for a potential terrorist.
The alert focuses on Mohamed Ali, a suspected member of the terrorist group Al Shabaab. It indicates he may be traveling to the U.S. through Mexico."
SNIPPET: "In 2007, former Houstonian Daniel Joseph Maldonado was brought back to Houston by the U.S Attorney in the Southern District after he was captured in Somalia reportedly training with terrorist groups.
“He had initially been on the frontlines of Al Shabaab, but when they realized he was an American, they pulled him back because they had plans for him to come back to the U.S. and recruit female suicide bombers,” said Neuhaus Schaan."
SNIPPET: "U.S. Homeland Security officials confirmed the Muhamed Ali alert, but declined to comment on it."
SNIPPET: "If authorities are right, Mohamed Ali is hardly alone and a terror network is following well-worn human smuggling routes into the Lone Star State.
“There would be a reasonable chance to have him [Mohamed Ali] coming through Houston,” Neuhaus Schaan said. “They [Al Shabaab] have been pretty busy in Texas.”
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No Thrilla in Texilla??
This article is a couple months old, but just sent out today by NAFBPO
Somali man accused of smuggling East Africans through Texas
A Somali man who allegedly has ties to terrorist groups is accused of smuggling, or trying to smuggle, through Texas several East Africans with similar affiliations.
A federal grand jury in San Antonio indicted Ahmed Muhammed Dhakane on Wednesday on two counts of making false statements to federal authorities.
Dhakane, 24, has been in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement since entering the U.S. through Brownsville in March 2008 and saying he wanted to seek asylum. He applied for asylum while in custody in October 2008.
The multiagency Joint Terrorism Task Force alleges he failed to disclose on his application that from before Sept. 11, 2001, through January 2003, he had been a member of the wire-transfer network Al-Barakat and an Islamic militant group in Somalia, Al-Ittihad Al-Islami (AIAI), both on the U.S. Treasury Department’s list of Specially Designated Terrorist entities.
The indictment, made public Friday, also alleges he’s known by 10 aliases, mischaracterized how he came into the United States and left out key details about his life in Brazil. It also alleges he failed to say he was part of and later ran a large-scale human-smuggling ring that smuggled, or tried to smuggle, hundreds of people from Brazil into the United States, among them “several AIAI-affiliated Somalis.”
Dhakane, who asked for a lawyer to be appointed, is scheduled for a bail hearing and arraignment in federal court in San Antonio on Monday and faces up to 10 years on each count if convicted.
Richard Durbin, chief of the criminal division for the U.S. attorney’s office for the Western District of Texas, said there was no apparent terrorist plot identified but officials still have to be cautious. Terrorism charges are rare, federal records show.
“The trouble with terrorism is you don’t know who’s going to do something,” Durbin said. “I don’t know what was claimed in his asylum, but he omitted some stuff that was pretty significant.
“This is part of what we do because we’re trying to disrupt potential problems,” Durbin said, speaking about the charges.
At a hearing late Thursday, Dhakane told U.S. Magistrate Judge John Primomo that there are no Somali consulates in the United States when asked if he’d like U.S. officials to notify consular officials of his home country about his criminal case.
Ping!
Thank you SwinneySwitch for pinging your list.
Not really.
M.Ali was the same name of the US ARMY SF Officer that double crossed the CIA and trained the AQ “secret service” for OBL. He was firmly entrenched within the DOD community an is rouge as of now.
Not sure if he’s the same guy but they’re all dangerous.
I think the Administration would prefer the term:
“Moving unknownable and unfathomable man-made potential damage alert”
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