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2009-07-19 Home Front: WoT

Rep. Ellison says U.S. trying to ensure safe return of missing Somalis

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Posted by Steve White 2009-07-19 08:50|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 At least four Somali-American men from Minnesota who left to fight in the Horn of Africa have died

Stories with happy endings, how we love them so.

Posted by Besoeker 2009-07-19 09:44|| 2009-07-19 09:44|| Front Page Top

#2 perhaps Abu Ellison (D-POS) can go get them back himself? Or just stay over there too?

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2009-07-19 09:58|| 2009-07-19 09:58|| Front Page Top

#3 But he also thinks if the recruits pose no threat to national security, they should be allowed to re-integrate into the American culture they left behind.

Does he have a working crystal ball?

Posted by hammerhead 2009-07-19 10:05|| 2009-07-19 10:05|| Front Page Top

#4 Good point Frank, he could take lessons from Jesse Jackson ...

Posted by Steve White 2009-07-19 10:09|| 2009-07-19 10:09|| Front Page Top

#5 Congressman Keith Ellison thinks the U.S. should try to retrieve the Minnesotan men who may have been misled into joining Al-Shabaab and want out.

How exactly were these poor men mislead congressman? Did they think Al-Shabaab was the Somalian equivalent of the Rotary Club? Maybe they were led to believe that employment opportunities were finally starting to boom after decades of endless drought, famine, and Civil war. Or maybe they were told the nightlife in Mogadishu blows away Minneapolis. Yep...that's it...it's gotta be the that easy Somali tail.

Posted by DepotGuy 2009-07-19 10:38|| 2009-07-19 10:38|| Front Page Top

#6 hint to Al-Shabaab: a couple of these guys are spies. That is all.

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2009-07-19 11:44|| 2009-07-19 11:44|| Front Page Top

#7 "Somali-American"

Uh, I don't think so.

Posted by Parabellum 2009-07-19 11:50|| http://sidemeat.wordpress.com/]">[http://sidemeat.wordpress.com/] 2009-07-19 11:50|| Front Page Top

#8 Safely returned as a stain on a piece of blotter works for me...

Posted by M. Murcek">M. Murcek 2009-07-19 12:39|| 2009-07-19 12:39|| Front Page Top

#9 Jesse Ventura.
Garrison Keilor.
Al Franken.
Rep Ellison (D-AlQaeda).

WTF is wrong with Minnesota?

Posted by OldSpook 2009-07-19 14:35|| 2009-07-19 14:35|| Front Page Top

#10 There is a Somali family three doors down from me that Mr. Ellison can return to Minnesota. They hate Jews (me); Mexican -Americans (my wife); and our three girls because they were shorts out here in the Arizona heat. The Somali females were full burquas - and the men cover their faces when driving past our house. BTW, they live in a government subsidized house and have four cars after being here only two years. The adults work as housekeepers at resorts - how they maintain their lifestyle (legally) I have no idea. But this is southern Arizona - 60 miles from Mexico Lindo and quite a few residents here in Tucson have no visible means of support but drive Cadillac Escalades and etc...

Posted by borgboy 2009-07-19 14:54|| 2009-07-19 14:54|| Front Page Top

#11 ...and quite a few residents here in ~~Tucson~~ Atlanta have no visible means of support but drive Cadillac Escalades and etc...

Who KNEW?

Posted by Besoeker 2009-07-19 16:53|| 2009-07-19 16:53|| Front Page Top

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