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Minnesota: Muslim refugee from Somalia arrested for aiding the Islamic State

Dec 14, 2015 10:46 am By Robert Spencer

The solution: bring in more Muslim refugees.

Abdirizak Mohamed Warsame

“Tenth Somali-American arrested in Minnesota for aiding ISIS,” RT, December 10, 2015 (thanks to Pamela Geller):

Federal agents in Minneapolis have arrested a 20-year-old man of Somali origin who they say was the “emir” – or leader – of Islamic State recruiting efforts in Minnesota’s Twin Cities.

Abdirizak Mohamed Warsame of Eagan, Minnesota appeared in the US District Court in Minneapolis on Thursday morning, to answer the charges of supplying material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization. He was arrested without incident on Wednesday evening, the FBI said.

The criminal complaint against Warsame, signed by FBI Special Agent Vadim Vinetsky, says that a group of at least ten young Somalis from Minnesota began conspiring to join Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) in the spring of 2014. One member of the group, 18-year-old Abdi Nir, actually managed to get to Syria in May 2014, while nine others have been arrested by the FBI.

A FBI informant inside the group secretly recorded the April 2015 conversation between Warsame and Guled Ali Omar, at the time the leader of the recruiting effort, discussing the possibility of robbing people in order to finance the group’s travel to Syria, according to court documents. Omar is the one who promoted Warsame to leadership, the FBI said.

In another conversation, involving Abdirahman Yasin Daud, Warsame said he was thinking of going to Somalia first. There might not even be any need to proceed to Syria, he told Daud, if Somalia’s al-Shabab pledged allegiance to Islamic State, said the FBI documents.

Daud was arrested later that month in California, where he and Mohamed Abdihamid Farah were allegedly planning to cross into Mexico with fraudulent passports. Omar was arrested around the same time in Minnesota, along with Zacharia Yusuf Abdurahman, Adnan Farah, and Hanad Mustafe Musse.

Only Nir succeeded in making it over to Syria, where he has been recruiting for Islamic State, the complaint says. Three of the men have pleaded guilty, while five are scheduled to go on trial in May….

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  1. KD says

    Dec 14, 2015 at 11:42 am

    I find a lot of good material at http://www.saintsandsceptics.org. Unfortunately, the following was disappointing: Would Muhammad Join Isis?

  2. mortimer says

    Dec 14, 2015 at 12:07 pm

    RADICAL ISLAMIC CHIC is prevalent among Muslim youth, but our police, teachers, politicians and social workers refuse to learn the jihad doctrine and so they are unable to recognize jihad when it is in plain view in front of them.

    The jihadists laugh at our inability to detect them when they are so obvious about it!

  3. Gary says

    Dec 14, 2015 at 1:09 pm

    Federal Agents work their tails off to protect American citizens from terrorism, yet President Obama wants to bring more and more Syrian refugees?

    And how is that protecting the very citizens he swore to protect?

    How this guy hasn’t be impeached is beyond me!!

    • Shane says

      Dec 15, 2015 at 10:24 am

      Obama had his fingers crossed when he took the oath of office. He has no intention of protecting us from Islamic jihad and from illegal alien criminals. ISIS will survive Obama’s term in office; bet on it.s

  4. Angemon says

    Dec 14, 2015 at 1:52 pm

    Tenth Somali-American arrested in Minnesota for aiding ISIS

    Only the tenth?

  5. Richard says

    Dec 14, 2015 at 2:23 pm

    Obama Talk – “US hitting IS harder than ever” – Obama in a speech at the Pentagon.

    Obama Action: “There’s little impact (from the airstrikes) because most areas are empty, or ISIS evacuated before the strikes,…. When we were in Raqqa city, for example, the court (was) hit three times. It was empty.”
    http://edition.cnn.com/2015/12/07/middleeast/raqqa-isis-refugee-testimony/

    What!? “little impact”? Hitting an empty court 3 times? What does hitting ISIS “harder than ever” mean? Hitting empty spaces 10 times instead of just 3 times?

    Obama’s strict rules of engagement – No “civilian” casualties. Translation No casualties. No bombing of their oil infrastructure (revenue). Reason environmental damage, global warming is the threat not ISIS.

    And in the meantime “The U.S. is running out of bombs to drop on ISIS …the Air Force is now “expending munitions faster than we can replenish them,” Air Force chief of staff Gen. Mark Wels

    Obama’s other action to fight ISIS: bring in hundreds of thousands of “refugees” from war torn Islamic hell-holes with their barbaric ideas and ideologies to populate our democracies.

    Loretta Lynch’s “greatest fear” after the San Bernadino attack? That another similar but more successful attack be carried out by Islamic Jihadists? No – in response to a statement by Farhana Khera at Muslim Advocates Dinner the “fears” Anti-Muslim “rhetoric” – Loretta Lynch – “That is my greatest fear” – Anti-Muslim rhetoric – the greatest crime that anyone can commit, no matter how heinous the atrocities they may commit against us in the name of Islam.

    Marco Rubio when asked by Megan Kelly “Your response to how the Whitehouse has handled this so far” – “Inexplicable”
    http://video.foxnews.com/v/4646957803001/marco-rubio-on-the-threat-of-homegrown-violent-extremists/?#sp=show-clips

    Obama has taken down the metadata program that enabled the FBI to catch terrorists planning action.
    http://video.foxnews.com/v/4657795423001/rubio-people-are-scared-obama-doesnt-know-what-hes-doing/?#sp=show-clips

    Now Obama has several times praised Islam and mocked Christianity, when coupled with all his actions the simplest explanation would be that he is a traitor. But the simplest explanation which would explain all his actions and inactions must be rejected. We have to search for some more complicated explanation.

    Marco Rubio “People are scared, Obama doesn’t know what he’s doing” But Obama is not unintelligent. Maybe he does know what he is doing, just not what is best in our interests, but rather what is in best interests of our enemies.

  6. Walter Sieruk says

    Dec 14, 2015 at 4:46 pm

    Just thinking, not about not just this jihad–minded Muslim man in the above picture but also about all the violent and cruel Muslim terrorists. .Be they members of ISIS any other like minded ruthless and deadly jihad entity of Islam. They are all ,so much, are willing to follow the callous and heartless instruction of the Koran. Such as in 9:123. which instructs “O you who believe ! Fight those of the disbelievers who are close to you, and let them find harshness in you…” The jihadists do powerful job at that. The that victims of their Islamic violence do ,very much, find harshness in them. Furthermore, In great contrast to the deadly violence of Islam there is Christianity. Which is centered on Jesus. For Jesus stated “I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.” John 10:10. [K.J.V]

  7. Jerry says

    Dec 15, 2015 at 10:50 pm

    They should also arrest the Somali “refugee” that currently occupy the White House.

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