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Did MN Muslims intend to kill Obama on inauguration day? | |
2009-01-27 | |
MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) -- With the inauguration of President Barack Obama in the past, U.S. officials are reporting information about possible threats on the day of the ceremony by a Minnesota Somali man. U.S. intelligence was reportedly investigating a potential inauguration threat involving a Somali insurgent group. They believed one man to be connected with the missing Somali men from Minnesota. 48 hours before the inauguration, U.S. customs agents arrested the 32-year-old Bile Abdullahi, a resident alien from Minnesota, at the Canadian border near Detroit.
Fox News has learned Abdullahi's arrest was just part of the intelligence that led to a cryptic warning. The FBI and Homeland Security were investigating information about a potential threat on inauguration day. The information was of limited specificity and uncertain credibility. The threat reportedly involved Al Shabaab, an Al-Qaeda connected radical Muslim group, operating terror training camps in Somalia. Al Shabaab is the same group that's believed to have lured as many as a dozen missing Somali men from the Twin Cities to fight in the jihad back in their homeland. The remains of one of those men, Shirwa Ahmed, were returned to Minnesota, after he became a suicide bomber in Somalia last October. U.S. intelligence officials are investigating whether financial support for Al Shabab is coming from Minnesota and other cities with a large Somali population. But, as we all know, those airline passengers were a bunch of racist islamophobes for being concerned about the Flying Imams. | |
Posted by:Frozen Al |
#1 Fascinating. So the work continues regardless who sits in the White House. Another legacy from President Bush the younger. No doubt President Obama will best know how to understand such a threat not just to the country but to his own person. |
Posted by: trailing wife 2009-01-27 18:06 |