I read this headline and spurted coffee onto the page, "What !!!!"
The background of the story is that for several months the FBI has been investigating at least 20 Somali-American men from the Minneapolis area who traveled to war-torn Somalia, where some of them trained and fought with an Al Qaeda-linked terrorist group known as al-Shabaab, according to counterterrorism officials.
Asked to characterize how many of those men are now back on American soil, the source would only say that "several" have returned. Federal authorities believe the men went to Somalia to join al-Shabaab, which has been warring with the moderate Somali government since 2006. "Some of the guys who were missing aren't missing anymore," the source said. "Some of them got blown up and some of them came back, and some of them are still there [in Somalia]."
I was amazed these people are wondering around on the streets- isn't it against the law to leave the US, engage in terrorism, and return? FBI Director Robert Mueller said the trend of young men "radicalized and recruited" in the United States to take up arms overseas "in particular concerns us." No shit sherlock...
At a Senate hearing in Washington last week, counterterrorism officials said there is no intelligence to indicate that Somali-Americans who traveled to Somalia are planning attacks inside the United States.
“We do not have a credible body of reporting right now to lead us to believe that these American recruits are being trained and instructed to come back to the United States for terrorist attacks,” said Philip Mudd, a top-ranking official with the FBI’s National Security Branch. “Yet, obviously, we remain concerned about that, and watchful for it.”
Have we REALLY become so inured in political correctness that we allow citizens of our country to go overseas, learn tricks of the trade in terrorism and come home to what, work at Burger King??? Why would they do it...oh, and the group that is training them is the Somalian terror organization Shabaab al Mujahideen. Their goal is (here's a shocker) as articulated in an April statement, is to throw the West "into hell.”
Shabaab al Mujahideen, which espouses radical Islamic rule and has close ties to Al Qaeda, is best known for operating training camps for people seeking a more extreme form of Jihad. It also has been forging relations with Somali pirates who have recently been intercepting and holding for ransom several international shipping vessels.
Click here to see video of one of Shabaab's training camps in Somalia.
Since I am on the subject of terrorism (what war on terror, according to Obama there is no war on terror) check out the videos posted by The NEFA Foundation including a recently released video recording of a November 20, 2008 suicide truck bombing attack on a joint-U.S.-Afghan military base in the southeastern Afghan province of Khost. The video shows footage of the bomber - identified as "Qari Abu Omar”, a “patient man with experience in jihad” - as he assists in the preparation of nearly 3,000kg of explosives, his farewell to the camera, and the subsequent blast itself. [which is shown repeatedly]
Warning- you might not want to watch these..
http://www1.nefafoundation.org/multimedia-prop.html
Our immigration laws are just pitiful!
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