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Virginia Muslim on Most Wanted Terrorist list detained in Somalia

Mar 2, 2015 8:55 pm By Robert Spencer

liban-haji-mohamedSurely Obama will be sending over a team of imams — say, Mark Cunningham, and Joas Wagemakers, and Caner K. Dagli, and Loren Thompson — to go over to Somalia to explain to Liban Haji Mohamed that he is misunderstanding his beautiful religion of peace and tolerance.

“Virginia cabbie on FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorists list detained in Somalia,” by Adam Goldman and Matt Zapotosky, Washington Post, March 2, 2015 (thanks to Kenneth):

A Northern Virginia man who fled the United States more than two years ago and was recently placed on the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorists list is in the custody of the Somali government, U.S. officials said.

Liban Haji Mohamed, 29, was detained shortly after prosecutors unsealed a warrant for his arrest and the FBI added him to the wanted list in late January. It is unclear how he was taken into custody or how soon he could be brought back to the United States.

The former cabdriver is charged with providing material support and resources to al-Shabab, a U.S.-designated terrorist organization allied with al-Qaeda. He is suspected of having an operational role in al-Shabab and of trying to recruit people to join the group.

When FBI officials announced his inclusion on the most-wanted list, they said Mohamed was “an asset to his terrorist associates who might plot attacks on U.S. soil.” Officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation, noted that he had detailed knowledge of potential targets in Washington.

The FBI had offered $50,000 for information leading to his arrest and conviction and launched a significant online campaign to find him.

An attorney for Mohamed’s family was not immediately available for comment. The attorney, Gadeir Abbas, has said previously that the family is skeptical of the charges, noting that Mohamed has relatives who were killed or captured by al-Shabab.

Officials said efforts were being made to bring Mohamed back to Virginia, though there are significant logistical and diplomatic challenges. The United States does not have an extradition treaty with Somalia.

U.S. law enforcement had been attempting to track Mohamed, a naturalized U.S. citizen, before he slipped out of the country and into Mexico on July 12, 2012. The case had frustrated FBI agents who strongly believed Mohamed should have been charged with material support of terrorism while he was living in Fairfax County.

Some federal prosecutors in the Eastern District of Virginia were willing to do so, though they were overruled by others at the Justice Department, officials said.

Dana Boente, the U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia, declined to comment, as did a spokesman for the Justice Department.

Mohamed’s family still lives in Northern Virginia, and his brother, Gulet Mohamed, is pursuing an unrelated civil lawsuit against the FBI. The suit stems from a 2010 incident in which Mohamed, then 19, was detained and said he was tortured by authorities in Kuwait after his inclusion on a no-fly list kept him from traveling home to the United States….

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  1. Wellington says

    Mar 2, 2015 at 9:09 pm

    Not a Virginian. Not an American. Rather, a Muslim who lived in Virginia, who lived in America.

    Huge difference, perhaps not in a techinical legal sense but certainly in a sense fully in keeping with the spirit of the law.

    • KrazyKafir says

      Mar 2, 2015 at 9:18 pm

      Jihadists Without Borders

  2. Angemon says

    Mar 2, 2015 at 9:20 pm

    The attorney, Gadeir Abbas, has said previously that the family is skeptical of the charges, noting that Mohamed has relatives who were killed or captured by al-Shabab.

    There’s an hadith (can’t remember exactly which one and I don’t feel like looking for it right now) that goes something like this:

    After one of muhammad’s companions killed jewish merchant – acting upon muhammad’s commands to kill jews wherever they could find them – his brother (who was not a muslim) told him “why have you killed such and such? He was not a warrior, he was a merchant, and we dealt with him, he was a business partner”. To which the killer replied “had muhammad ordered me to kill you, I’d do it without thinking twice”. The hadith goes to say that his brother was so struck by the loyalty muhammad inspired that he converted to islam (although I think he did so to save his life from any possible future attacks), but the bottom line is this: if you’re not a pious, devout muslim then, family or not, you’re free game.

    • ECAW says

      Mar 3, 2015 at 4:03 am

      al-Tabari 7:97 and ibn-Ishaq 369.

      Full story here:

      https://ecawblog.wordpress.com/2014/03/12/a-short-story/

      • Angemon says

        Mar 4, 2015 at 1:54 pm

        Thank you for the clarification, ECAW.

  3. Ayatrollah says

    Mar 2, 2015 at 9:21 pm

    His brother is suing the FBI because he was “tortured by authorities in Kuwait”. It is criminal not to allow believers to practice their religion by fighting in the way of Allah.

    How can people raised in the west want to “fight in the way of Allah”?

  4. Salah says

    Mar 2, 2015 at 11:08 pm

    “Some federal prosecutors in the Eastern District of Virginia were willing to do so, though they were overruled by others at the Justice Department,…”

    These “others” are the real culprits, they should be prosecuted. The Justice Department needs a cleanup.

  5. Linde Barrera says

    Mar 3, 2015 at 12:18 am

    Dear Ayatrollah, what normal person would want to “fight in the ways of Allah”?

  6. Linde Barrera says

    Mar 3, 2015 at 12:24 am

    I hope this creepy Muslim gets detained in Somalia forever. I would think he looks at that country (with a 100% Muslim population) as a paradise, in which to live an idyllic life.

  7. Michael says

    Mar 3, 2015 at 10:27 am

    Happening right up under our noses all the high-tech security America an Britan has these Muslims keep slipping in right up under our noses Obama and the other western nations better wake up and smell the coffe

  8. Sam says

    Mar 3, 2015 at 11:19 am

    Why would someone want him back in USA.

  9. George Ibson says

    Mar 3, 2015 at 1:32 pm

    Scratch a Muslim…find a terrorist jihadi!

  10. almeira says

    Mar 3, 2015 at 2:42 pm

    Scratch a muslim,find a jihadist,what a complete and undiluted truth.

    Muslims are just thistles and thorns in the flesh,any time any day

  11. ConnectingDots says

    Mar 3, 2015 at 4:27 pm

    President Obama,

    If you had a son, would he look like Liban Haji Mohamed?

    If not, why not?

    Discuss.

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