Minnesota terror case shows challenge of predicting attacks

AP ^ | 17 Feb 2018 | Amy Forliti

[blueplum]

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — After Tnuza Jamal Hassan was stopped from flying to Afghanistan last September, she allegedly told FBI agents that she wanted to join al-Qaida and marry a fighter, and that she might even wear a suicide belt. She also said she was angry at U.S. military actions overseas and admitted that she tried to encourage others to “join the jihad in fighting,” but she said she had no intention of carrying out an attack on U.S. soil, according to prosecutors. Despite her alleged admissions, she was allowed to go free. Four months later, the 19-year-old was arrested for allegedly setting small fires on her former college campus in St. Paul in what prosecutors say was a self-proclaimed act of jihad. No one was hurt by the Jan. 17 fires at St. Catherine University, but her case raises questions about why she wasn’t arrested after speaking to the agents months earlier and shows ...

[blueplum]

Is it that it's 'hard' to identify homegrowns? Or is it that it's 'hard' to get around minority privilege and the constant threat of ACLU lawsuits?

[Midwesterner53]

Its a challenge for sure when the FBI ignores red flags flying everywhere.

[Enterprise]

It’s probably a black mark on one’s career to be accused of racism by someone in the protected class.

[NTHockey]

Not hard to understand. Agents were too busy trying to overthrow the government.

SHUT DOWN THE FBI.

[ronnie raygun]

I’m starting to believe the upper ranks are tossing the information from rank and file in the garbage and following the progressive agenda

[Sa-teef]

"Its a challenge for sure when the FBI ignores red flags flying everywhere."

Indeed. Trying to avoid trampling on the "rights" of a minority group is a higher priority than actually saving lives.

In Minnesota, "the land of one million political lefties" she will no doubt get a plea deal to public nuisance and get a scholarship to one of the better universities.

The FBI? They were too busy chasin' Roossin Facebook trolls to bother with a self-proclaimed jihadist supporter. Actually saving American lives seem to be a lesser priority of late, sad to say.

[a fool in paradise]

Yet another known wolf.

[madprof98]

Or is it that it's 'hard' to get around minority privilege and the constant threat of ACLU lawsuits?

Everybody knows the answer. Nobody will do anything about it.

[The Great RJ]

Why isn’t she being deported and her family as well?

[minnesota_bound]

1,000 Somalis work at the Minneapolis airport.
No worries there.

[Midwesterner53]

Just don’t make any sudden moves or loud noises around them.