"Minnesota man" found guilty of recruiting Muslims to join jihad terror group

Garrison Keillor? No, guess again. Bob Dylan? Nope. Jim Kaat? Sorry. Walter Mondale? Come on. Give up? It was the notable "Minnesota man" Mahamud Said Omar. "Jury convicts Mahamud Said Omar in Somalia terrorism case," from KSMP-TV, October 18 (thanks to Christopher):

Jurors have delivered a guilty verdict in the trial of a Minnesota man accused of helping send men to Somalia to join the al-Qaida-linked group al-Shabab.

Mahamud Said Omar was convicted on all five terrorism-related counts in the government's investigation into what it says was the recruitment of more than 20 Minneapolis-area Somali men who returned to their native land to join al-Shabab since 2007.

He could face life in prison.

Prosecutors say Omar bought plane tickets to Somalia for Minnesota recruits and paid for weapons for some of them.

Omar denies wrongdoing and says he has never supported al-Shabab. His attorney, Andrew Birrell, claimed the government's case was built on the false testimony of former recruits because they were under pressure to find out why men were being recruited by al-Shabab....

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And, of course, as 'Jihadwatch' continues to indicate correctly,
such Islamic jihad recruitment goes on in other Western countries too.

Currently many jihadists now active in Syria are based in Western countries.

"NHS doctor accused of Syria terror kidnapping appears in court as it's revealed 15 British Nationals are at Islamic training camp in country"

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2219371/NHS-doctor-accused-Syria-terror-kidnapping-appears-court-revealed-15-British-Nationals-Islamic-training-camp-country.html


On Somalia, a recent example, (Feb 2012), involves 'British' Islamic jihad Somalis:-

"British Muslims recruited to fight for 'al-Qaeda' in Somalia.
Dozens of radicalised British Muslims are being trained by militant Islamists to fight in a 'holy war' in Somalia, it can be revealed."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/somalia/9090606/British-Muslims-recruited-to-fight-for-al-Qaeda-in-Somalia.html

"Omar denies wrongdoing" idiot thinks we have sharia law already.

One might hope these jihadists would be refused re-entry; or is that too much to expect?

We worry about al qaeda reestablishing bases of operation afar, yet the State department facilitates the immigration of individuals who are turning US soil into their home turf. Frankly, it is very difficult for me to conclude if liberalism is a mental disease or just simple mental retardation.

quarantine, it's a time of war

Only 20-odd volunteers to fight for prophet and country? a pretty sorry lot, these North Star Somalis, I'd say. They'd rather lay about in Minneapolis collecting welfare than help their countrymen keep the faith.

I just hope the feds have names and photos of the recruits so that they can be denied re-entry if they try it.

You wrote -" I just hope the feds have names and photos of the recruits so that they can be denied re-entry if they try it." And Godzaconie, above, had the same idea - "One might hope these jihadists would be refused re-entry".

Yep.

If that were standard procedure in all Western - and in majority non-Muslim *non-Western* - countries, when you have Mohammedans from the established colonies swanning off back to dar al Islam to engage in its internecine strife, Muslim vs Muslim, then we could just sit back, exercise due diligence on the home front (in case any of the 'recruitment agents', like this bloke, started encouraging anybody to wage Jihad *here*), monitor our gateways so as to prevent re-entry, and watch large numbers of ticking time-bombs **deporting themselves permanently from our shores and, what's more, doing it at their own expense**.

I think it's probably worth while trying to find whether we have any politicians receptive to this eminently practical and prudent course of action.

It might be possible to get *this* happening - a bar on re-entry of persons known or reasonably suspected to have gone abroad for jihad training and/ or action - sooner than a ban on Muslim immigration, or a willingness to consider large-scale deportation.

"Minnesota man" has been convicted. Now how about "Hawaii man"?

Some poetic quick-wit ought to do a statirical re-write of Dylan's song: http://www.bobdylan.com/us/songs/something-there-about-you

Omar denies wrongdoing and says he has never supported al-Shabab.
..........................

I imagine he actually believes the first part of this statement—how can recruiting for violent Jihad be considered "wrongdoing"?

The latter part, though, is just more Taqiyya for Infidel consumption...

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