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Minnesota: Jihad terror recruit back in custody after violating release conditions

May 11, 2015 8:58 pm By Robert Spencer

abdullahi-yusuf“After Yusuf pleaded guilty earlier this year to conspiracy charges, Chief U.S. District Judge Michael Davis agreed to a proposal by his attorneys to enroll the 18-year-old man in Heartland Democracy’s program designed to reshape the attitudes of troubled youth, with special emphasis on Somali-American teens who feel disenfranchised.” It didn’t work. It could never have worked, because there is absolutely no doubt that this program did not deal with the jihad doctrine as taught in the Qur’an and Sunnah.

“Accused Minn. terrorist recruit back in custody after violating release conditions,” Star Tribune, May 11, 2015:

Abdullahi Yusuf, a Somali-American defendant accused of conspiring to support terrorists in the Middle East, has been taken into custody for violating conditions while living in a St. Paul halfway house, according to court documents filed Monday.

Yusef [sic], a student at Inver Grove Community College, drew national attention after a federal judge decided to place him in a halfway house and provide counseling for him rather than hold him in custody while awaiting sentencing.

Yusuf’s violations were not detailed in court records.

After Yusuf pleaded guilty earlier this year to conspiracy charges, Chief U.S. District Judge Michael Davis agreed to a proposal by his attorneys to enroll the 18-year-old man in Heartland Democracy’s program designed to reshape the attitudes of troubled youth, with special emphasis on Somali-American teens who feel disenfranchised. The move was hailed by counterterrorism experts as a novel idea and was viewed as a test case on whether such persons could be rehabilitated.

In May 2014, Yusuf was stopped from boarding a flight by FBI agents at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. He’d bought a ticket for Istanbul, Turkey, records showed. Agents had been tipped to Yusuf because of his suspicious behavior when he applied weeks earlier for a passport.

A day later, Yusuf’s colleague, Abdi Nur, successfully flew from the airport and made his way to Syria where he is fighting for the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL).

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  1. RG says

    May 11, 2015 at 9:16 pm

    I don’t know who’s more dangerous, this deadhead IMBECILE, or Chief Justice Michael Davis and this kid’s legal team. It seems to me they all have about the same IQ level – minus sub zero! Oh these goodie two shoes idiots – they all think they can rehabilitate THE DEAD!!!

    • tilda says

      May 11, 2015 at 10:25 pm

      Not minus sub zero — average IQ in Somalia is about 68.

  2. JamesonRocks says

    May 11, 2015 at 9:29 pm

    No surprise here… Of course he violated his release conditions. They were not issued by a sharia court…

  3. Marco says

    May 11, 2015 at 9:34 pm

    Fly this death eater to Syria where he can be martyred and burn in hell with his god satan/allah. The insanity of believing these “poor souls” just need more education, jobs, religious freedom, respect, or just more better welfare is just mind boggling! Insanity on high quality meth!

  4. Zimriel says

    May 11, 2015 at 9:34 pm

    *attempting “Fargo” accent* Maybe if Sally Lundstrom had just sung Kumbaya a little better, yanno?

  5. don says

    May 11, 2015 at 10:11 pm

    Rehabilitation is useless. Perhaps we should talk about a system to permanently block them from ever returning to the USA, at least legally anyways until we can get the leadership of our Country to actually guard the border.

  6. tilda says

    May 11, 2015 at 10:23 pm

    “…with special emphasis on Somali-American teens who feel disenfranchised….”

    Does the ‘special emphasis’ indicate that there’s a particular problem with a certain group?

    No idea what ‘disenfranchised’ is supposed to imply. Not fitting in? Culturally out of his depth?

    Why not enroll him in a deportation program? (Some people should be given that option.)

    • Susan says

      May 11, 2015 at 11:37 pm

      “Why not enroll him in a deportation program” perfect.

      • Darren says

        May 12, 2015 at 1:25 pm

        The problem is so you deport him. A month later some innocent Christian or infidel family is minding their own business in where ever, and they cross paths with this guy. Why should they be put into that situation? We need to make a new T.V Show, called the Running Jihadi, based on the Arnold movie called Running Man, or bring back gladiator matches.

        These idiots who want to die so badly, can get their wish, but they have to fight each other. Make it a Pay Per View event, and the proceeds can go to wounded veterans or their families. We help the people brave enough to take the fight to the enemy and their families, and jihadists get to meet allah and his 72 goats. Win win. When you decide it’s alright to throw away your humanity, and become a demon, you shouldn’t be afforded the same human rights as actual humans.

  7. blake says

    May 11, 2015 at 11:12 pm

    he looks like such a nice, well kept young man….

  8. pdxnag says

    May 12, 2015 at 12:16 am

    It is not a crime to relinquish U.S. citizenship (or lawful presence, or even unprosecuted illegal presence). Let him leave and never come back.

    Let him wage Islam from far far away.

    • vickie says

      May 12, 2015 at 7:10 am

      That is something I don’t understand. Why can’t he be allowed to leave? I understand if he were underage and the parents were asking for help. Is it the responsibility of the U.S to keep jihadi away from war? Legally? Must we stop him because he is a U.S. citizen?

      Then we could not allow him back in or in the least make it very difficult to come back. Charge him with treason!!

      Could we fight for this guy and every jihadi some kind of petition for his freedom and right to travel?

  9. Joseph says

    May 12, 2015 at 12:49 am

    “Heartland Democracy’s program designed to reshape the attitudes of troubled youth,”

    YOU CAN BET that the classes were “disrupted” to allow these little degenerates to pray to Allen.
    YOU can also bet that there was NO prohibition of them going to their local mosque to get the brainwashing that all jihad wannabe’s seek. It is like letting an alcoholic work in a liquor store, the temptation is just too great.

    The only thing that will reshape this guy’s attitude is a plane flight back to Somalia.
    Sorry you had your chance in a free country, now you get a free flight back.

    • More Ham Ed says

      May 12, 2015 at 4:26 am

      A one way ticket kind of like THIS fantasy clip.

      • Joseph says

        May 12, 2015 at 5:17 pm

        I would be happy with just a fly over-out the door, no parachute and only his Koran to break his fall.

  10. More Ham Ed says

    May 12, 2015 at 4:11 am

    They just couldn’t convince him to sell ham sandwhiches from a street cart on the corner of 61st and Broadway in NYC. MORE HAM!

  11. Daniel Sebold says

    May 12, 2015 at 4:37 am

    My heart bleeds for this poor innocent unassuming Somali shabab. Surely, if they would have given him a nice government job, say, working as an expert on North African cultures at Minnesota State University, Mankato, he could have participated in the diversity program there, celebrating Somali female genital mutilation one night and Brazilian bikini wax culture the next, he would have turned out to be a normal Minnesota multiculturalist. He would have become a productive citizen of multicultural America.

    We have failed to reach this poor oppressed young man. Had we been able to reach him we we would have seen him in bookstores shopping for classics and hanging out in the art galleries and Science Museums all charmed by what beautiful Minneapolis has to offer.

    I just dont understand it. Instead he would rather go back to Somalia or Syria where he would much prefer to decaptiate his enemies. I just don’t understand where we went wrong. Maybe–had we spent our tax dollars on some quality core teachers we could have helped our own kids. Oh, well. such is water under the bridge. The hell with our own kids.

  12. Angemon says

    May 12, 2015 at 5:41 am

    Abdullahi Yusuf, a Somali-American defendant accused of conspiring to support terrorists in the Middle East

    Step 1 – Strip American citizenship
    Step 2 – Deal with a Somali criminal the same way you del with all other non-American criminals – an airplane ticket to their country and a police escort to make sure they leave.

  13. Gamaliel says

    May 12, 2015 at 5:59 am

    The only chance for a de-Jihadification program to work would be to isolate these guys from mosques and other Muslims.

  14. Beagle says

    May 12, 2015 at 9:05 am

    After the events which inspired the movie Blackhawk Down some geniuses in government thought, “I figure what we really need is to import some Mogadishu charm and hospitality into the US.”

    Someone needs to pin down the people involved in that process. Then we need to heat some tar and pluck some chickens.

    • Islam_Is_Islam says

      May 12, 2015 at 10:46 am

      @Beagle
      Ann Corcoran atRefugeeResettlementWatch.WordPress.com has tracked down the process you wish to identify. She also proffers suggestions for impeding, stopping, and even never beginning the flow of “Mogadishu charm” to our cities. The most effective actions are occurring at the local level.

  15. Mark says

    May 12, 2015 at 9:12 am

    https://youtu.be/o_qYcJ-GSZc

  16. Papa Whiskey says

    May 12, 2015 at 9:38 am

    Yusuf’s violations were not detailed in court records.

    The real problem is not a troubled youth but a troubled government — one that is willing to invalidate the people’s right to know in order to protect its program to import many thousands more of these creatures.

    Look at los ojos de piedra. Talk about one picture being worth a thousand words.

  17. Jack Holan says

    May 12, 2015 at 12:16 pm

    Aside from the Judge making a terrible decision WHY is the court keeping Yusuf’s breach of his bail arrangement sealed? It’s probably more for Politically motivated than Security related

    • Shmooviyet says

      May 12, 2015 at 2:24 pm

      My question exactly. What were his violations?
      Not that the fishwrap Star-Trib would print them if asked not to…
      Since when did halfway houses start being used for this sort of ‘troubled youth’? The state and feds are scrambling to keep up with the jihadis and wanna-bes they’ve imported, and we the citizens will pay the price for their lunacy.

  18. Sam says

    May 13, 2015 at 12:52 pm

    Instead of using my tax dollars to protect me from Evil Doers like Moslems the government is helping them. It is disgusting that my money is being spent on the enemy. I wonder what will happen within the next few years if we keep on sleeping against Islam. A nuke in Miami Fl or LA is getting to be too close to reality.

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