“Somalis, FBI in other U.S. cities on alert for terrorist recruiting”
“While Minneapolis is the core of an investigation, leaders elsewhere want to keep youth from being drawn to violence.”
By JAMES WALSH and RICHARD MERYHEW, Star Tribune staff writers
Last update: April 18, 2009 - 10:11 PM
COLUMBUS, OHIO -
SNIPPET: “”No one has disappeared,” said Ahmed Hosh, who works with Somali youths in Columbus. “But if those who did the recruiting were individuals talking to someone alone, the scary thing is it could happen here.”
The Twin Cities area has been at the center of the federal investigation ever since a 27-year-old from Minneapolis blew himself up in a suicide attack in Somalia last fall. But other cities with large Somali populations are being scrutinized, too: Boston, Seattle, San Diego and Columbus, which has the second-largest population of Somali refugees in the United States behind Minneapolis — an estimated 40,000 to 50,000 people.”
THE JAWA REPORT - blog: "Wordpress,YouTube Execs in Iraq. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?" (SNIPPET: "Good News: Executives from Twitter, Google, YouTube, and Wordpress are "in Iraq to help country use new media." Bad News: Wordpress still most popular blogging platform and free hosting service for terrorists and their supporters. In fact, Wordpress is now the platform of choice for al Qaeda's Somali affiliate, the al-Shabaab (no link on purpose.) And the Google owned YouTube continues to be a major distribution node for terrorist produced media.") (April 21, 2009)