"Kamal Hassan of Minnesota" trained with a jihad group and lied to the FBI.
"Third man pleads guilty in Somali terror case," from USA Today, August 12:
A third man has pleaded guilty to terrorism-related charges for fighting with Islamist militants in Somalia.Kamal Hassan of Minnesota admitted in federal court today that he had been trained by and fought with al-Shabab. He confessed that he had lied to the FBI when he said he had gone to Yemen after his training. Hassan also acknowledged he had concealed the identities of people he associated with in Minnesota and Somalia.
Two weeks ago a Minnesota Somali man pleaded guilty to a terror-related charge for traveling to Somalia to fight with the militants.
Minnesota Public Radio has a timeline and photos of the 20 young men who disappeared from the Minneapolis area to fight in Somalia.
A prominent Minneapolis Somali community leader said he believes the recruitment of local Somali-Americans for jihad in their homeland has slowed or stopped, the Minneapolis Star Tribune writes.
Here are the comments that caught my eye, that were made to this article when we were using IntenseDebate.
PULSAR (quoting) - "He confessed that he had lied to the FBI when he said he had gone to Yemen after his training. Hassan also acknowledged he had concealed the identities of people he associated with in Minnesota and Somalia."
He is not alone....
-SORROW added - No, and this was not something undertaken by individuals alone. There had to be at least a portion of the Somali community supportive of this.
-BASEBALLMAVEN observed - Can't these folks be deported?????
-SORROW told BASEBALLMAVEN - If they are not citizens, that would be possible. However, I would want them prosecuted and imprisoned first in order to make an example of them. Free airfare to a Jihadist country would not exactly be punishment for such people.
CIVILUS DEFENDUS said - Does "plead guilty" mean to "proudly proclaim the supremacism of islam and death, destruction and subjugation of all things not islamic"? Just curious. Again, judges should network on jihad, do post trial debriefs...
And here are some more. Ebonystone's comment gets the prize for sarcasm.
EBONYSTONE (quoted) - "A prominent Minneapolis Somali community leader said he believes the recruitment of local Somali-Americans for jihad in their homeland has slowed or stopped."
and remarked -
What a bunch of wimps! Only a few dozen of them willing to go and fight for their homeland, out of thousands in the Twin Cities. I guess Minnesota's generous welfare benefits have made the rest into softies. Show a little pride, you North Star Somalis! Your homeland needs you!
ou young North Star Somalis, just think what it will be like 50 years from now, when the Caliphate has been established in North America, and Sharia is the law of the land. What will you tell your grandsons when they ask what you did in the Great Islamic Conquest?grandsons: "Grandpa, did you help drive the kaffirs out of somalia?"
you: "well, no"
grandsons: "did fight the Zionist conspiracy in Afghanistan?"
you: "well, no"
grandsons: "Well what did you do?"
you: "I fought on the home front -- the economic jihad -- I soaked up hundreds of thousands of Kuffir dollars in welfare benefits; and the demographic jihad -- I fathered 32 children, including your parents, by different mothers of course, and almost all of them also went on welfare. Together we almost bankupted the Minnesota -- that's what they called New Somalia then -- welfare system.
1st grandson: "sounds like grandpa was yellow, to me"
2nd grandson: " yeah, you said it."
Don't let this happen, go back to Somalia now and fight for the fatherland and for Islam.
ICESTAR said - One for the good guys. Throw them all in jail then deport them. We don't need that type of immigrant. We need more Aayan Hirsi Alis.
ISABELLATHECRUSADER quoted - "Kamal Hassan...confessed that he had lied to the FBI when he said he had gone to Yemen after his training."
and said - Yep. Muslims lie.