“People who don’t implement Sharia, even if they’re Muslim, they’re considered infidels and we should kill them and we should defend our lands and implement Sharia.”
“Minnesota terror suspect on no-fly list ‘fascinated by Jihad,'” by Tom Lyden, KMSP, September 7, 2015 06:48PM CDT
MINNEAPOLIS (KMSP) – Family members of a Minnesota man connected to young people who allegedly attempted to fight for ISIS, say he frequently expressed radical beliefs about religious Jihad.
Amir Meshal, 32, is on the government’s “No-Fly” list, and as the FOX 9 Investigators revealed, recently got his Class A Commercial Drivers License, which will allow him to drive large semi-trucks.
Meshal’s cousin, Tony Osman, recalled a non-stop road trip the two made from Minnesota to New Jersey two years ago for a family funeral.
“He said Jihad is the greatest and highest and best thing you can do in Islam. And the best deed equaled by none,” Osman recalled. “On the car ride, Amir was listening to Blind Sheikh and Osama Bin Laden. Video tapes on his handheld device connected through the speakers. They were lectures and promoting Jihad.”
“He seemed to be very fascinated and enthralled by it (Jihad),” said Osman. “I asked him also what he thought about ISIS and this was like June or July. He said they’re a good group, seems they want to implement the Koran and the Sharia.”
Meshal has been on the FBI’s radar since 2007, when he was arrested leaving an Al Qaeda training camp in Somalia. He was held for three months in secret prisons in Kenya and Ethiopia, enduring grueling interrogations.
Osman recalled several parts of his conversations with his cousin. “He said, do you know the real reason I went to Somalia? And I said, no I don’t. This is the first time I am hearing this. (Mashal:) I went to train with some high level Al Qaeda people who had just returned from Afghanistan.”
Nabil Ashour is another relative, who Meshal lived with for a short time, after returning from Somalia. “What I saw when he came back was not the same kid that I saw and lived with me that I knew from New Jersey,” Ashour said. “I felt he was like helping a terrorist lie low in my basement.” Nabil Ashour isn’t a practicing Muslim. He believes his cousin is looking for martyrdom.
Meshal is suing Homeland Security with help of the ACLU for being held in rendition overseas and for being on the no-fly list. In a letter last December, Homeland Security said Meshal is not only a terror threat, but “has the operational capacity to carry out a terror attack.” The reasons for that assessment are classified, blacked out on documents. The two lawsuits are on appeal. A decision is expected soon.
Last summer, Meshal was kicked out of a Bloomington mosque for attempting to radicalize young people, including many of those who prosecutors say were attempting to travel to Syria to fight for ISIS.
Meshal is suspected of playing an influential role with Abdullahi Yusuf, who is now a cooperating government witness and Abdi Nur, believed to have been killed fighting for ISIS.Osman was with Meshal when he met with the group.
Osman: “I need to talk to the brothers privately and he talked to the group of kids that was arrested.”
Reporter: “How long would he talk to them?”
Osman: “5, 10, 15 minutes.”
Reporter: “And did he seem to be leading them in anyway?”
Osman: “I am not sure, honestly. They did seem to respect him highly and value his opinion and listen to him.”He further recalled Meshal encouraged the young people to watch videos of Sheikh Anwar Al Awlaki, a radical cleric killed in a U.S. drone strike, whose lectures have inspired lone wolf attacks all over the world. “He called them Sheikh Anwar’s videos. He said that guy speaks the truth. He said if you want to know the truth listen to this guy.” Osman remembered.
Osman has known Meshal since they were just five years old, growing up near Newark, New Jersey. They’re actually double cousins. Their parents are siblings, in a complicated and intriguing family tree. Osman’s step father, Khalid Ibrahim, is an un-indicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. When Osman was only 10 years old his step-father took him to Pakistan and Afghanistan, where he said he received training alongside the Taliban. He’s photographed holding a grenade launcher. Osman, is now a personal trainer and said he had long ago rejected radical Islam….
According to Osman, Meshal told him “innocence” is relative when it comes to Jihad, especially in defense of a Muslim state, a caliphate. “People who don’t implement Sharia, even if they’re Muslim, they’re considered infidels and we should kill them and we should defend our lands and implement Sharia,” Osman remembered Meshal saying.
Reporter: “Did he say he would do Jihad in the United States?”
Osman: “He didn’t specifically say I’m going to do Jihad in the United States. What he told me it was his right to do Jihad, wherever he is, and if the enemies of Islam trap him in the enemy land all options are open to him.”…

Cecilia Ellis says
“Their parents are siblings, in a complicated and intriguing family tree.”
A tree that has no branches . . .
Jack says
How many more are just like him, rest assured there will be enough in the not to distant future to change America forever. Maybe this is a diabolical plan, what better way to turn this country into a Police State. “Today Americans would resent seeing U.N troops on their streets but with the right crisis they will demand it” New World Order control freak David Rockefeller. Remember too that world Chao will be happening when: “The Man Of Sin” The Son Of Perdition” “The Lawless One” or known worldwide as the Antichrist rises up and convinces the masses that he can save the world.
jihad3tracker says
* * * * * * * OFF-TOPIC BUT VERY URGENT * * * * * *
Please pardon me, Cecilia, cutting in line. A tsunami of ” Let all the desperate Syians into America !!! ” is, of course, going to hit our elected folks, with Hussein Obama’s implicit collusion. How many thousands are eventually going to arrive to create more “Dearbornistan” hostile no-go enclaves ???
THEY WON’T BE VETTED, BECAUSE WE DON’T WANT TO SEEM “ISLAMOPHOBIC”. CAIR + every imam with a keyboard is set to press hard, hard, hard for this to happen.
WHAT MUST WE DO IMMEDIATELY: FAX — NOT EMAIL ! ! ! TO THE MOST CRUCIAL PEOPLE ON THE HILL. YELL INTO THEIR CLUELESS DEAF EARS. AT THEIR HOME OFFICE FAX MACHINES, NOT CAPITOL HILL (TOO BUSY).
Give them Robert’s website AND PAM GELLER’S — because she often has supplemental posts on just how suicidal it is to have this happen. MAKE SURE YOU INCLUDE SENATOR CHUCK SCHUMER ! ! ! HE IS THE ONE DEM I TRUST TO UNDERTAND REALITY.
And even if you must hold your nose to fax more Dems that you have utmost contempt for, go ahead and mix them in with Republicans. This has to be a bipartisan contact effort.
THE ESSENTIAL POST BY ROBERT — TO MENTION IN YOUR FAX: “THE HIJRAH INTO EUROPE”. Also the other about how certain it is that along with women and children will come jihadist men, perhaps by the hundreds or even thousands.
Cecilia Ellis says
Jihad3tracker, no problem! Your post is correct and urgent! Agree totally! Thanks.
Jack says
Why is this maniac allowed to run loose in this country, if I had the power I would put him on a plane and fly him to a Muslim country allowing him to bail out with an unworkable parachute. How long before this Vermin fills one of those commercial vehicles with explosives and rams it into a building or maybe a school maiming and killing hundreds,
ICH says
Would there be any truth in saying there is a lot
of incest related issues in Islam ?
miriamrove says
Not incest but inter family marriages, like my own mom and dad. They are first cousins! M
Lesley says
Islam has a long history of encouraging and embracing consanguineous marriages, yes.
Don McKellar says
Fascinated and enthralled at the prospect of murdering innocent people who don’t obey his blood-thirsty god and his mad dog raving “prophet”. Yes, a typical pious moslem. That’s what the Koran commands very plainly and directly.
Jay Boo says
Islam’s “(it)”
And now a message to Muslims in denial.
Allah – was a gift from Gabriel to Mo
That message was told, supposed
When (wrong) poses as (right verses righter)
Do not step into this odious pile of “it”
Islam’s veil is merely a diaper.
Gary says
Amir Meshal is a perfect example of what happens to a man that will not hear the truth….
“He said Jihad is the greatest and highest and best thing you can do in Islam. And the best deed equaled by none,”
Yet the Obama Administration continues to tell us Islam has nothing to do with terrorism…….
“the time is coming when anyone who kills you will think they are offering a service to God. They will do such things because they have not known the Father or me. I have told you this, so that when their time comes you will remember that I warned you about them.” John 16:2-4
Amir Meshal serves and worships one created being…. Satan.
“Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them.” Deuteronomy 11:16
But President Obama will continue to claim Islam is not to blame for the terror in the world, and that the future does not belong to those who would slander “The prophet.”
“Who is the liar? It is whoever denies that Jesus is the Christ. Such a person is the antichrist—denying the Father and the Son. No one who denies the Son has the Father; whoever acknowledges the Son has the Father also.” 1 John 2:22-23
KrazyKafir says
With the help of the traitorous enemies the UCLU
abad says
NO Muslims should be allowed to fly on American flights inside or outside our nation since 9-11.
THEY CANNOT BE TRUSTED AT ALL.
Angemon says
Indeed – a shame the general population doesn’t know that. It sheds a sifferent light those “we, the islamic association of __________, condemn the killing of innocents” templates.
dajjal says
Meshal is a believer as defined in 8.1-5, 9.111 & 49.15. In a sane nation he would not be permitted to return to America. In a sane nation, Islam would be outlawed, Muslims would be expelled and banned from entry.
mortimer says
INBREEDING? Or is it the JIHAD DOCTRINE of normative Islam?
“He said…(ISIS is) a good group, seems they want to implement the Koran and the Sharia.”
65% of Muslims want to impose Sharia…15% of Muslims are jihad supporters. One Muslims out of 3,000 wishes to conduct jihad.
Which one?
dumbledoresarmy says
Re the term “double cousins”.
It can happen in the West as well.
What happens is you have the A family, with son Bill and daughter Jane. And you have the B family, with son Fred and daughter Sally.
Bill (A) marries Sally (B). And Bill’s sister Jane marries Sally’s brother Fred.
The children of Bill and Sally are “double cousins” (double first-cousins) to the children of Jane and Fred.
There is no in-breeding involved, not unless in the next generation one of Bill and Sally’s kids marries one of Jane and Fred’s kids. Or unless Bill and Jane were *already* related to Fred and Sally.
richard courtemanche says
Cowards would be fascinated and enthralled by ISIS.
Logoman says
What? CAIR isn’t involved in assisting this creep? That is a surprise.