Imagine what would have happened if those in charge of hiring at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport had attempted to determine whether or not Abdirizak Mohamed Warsame had jihadist sympathies. The Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) would have been all over them in a hot New York minute, and CNN and the New York Times would be filled with tut-tutting articles about “Islamophobia” in airport hiring practices. They’re lucky no one got killed this time, but even if Warsame had pulled off a jihad mass murder attack, no one would have dared call to account the organizations responsible for the attitudes that made it possible for him to gain the necessary access.
“Minnesota man who wanted to join ISIS once worked as baggage handler at airport,” Associated Press, December 22, 2015:
MINNEAPOLIS – A Minnesota man who faces terrorism-related charges once boasted that he was capable of building rockets that could threaten planes landing at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, and also once worked at the airport as a baggage handler, an FBI agent testified Tuesday.
FBI Special Agent Daniel Higgins spoke at a hearing for Abdirizak Mohamed Warsame, 20, of Eagan. Warsame was the 10th young man from Minnesota’s Somali community to be charged since April with terrorism-related counts accusing them of plotting to travel to Syria to join the Islamic State group. He was arrested and charged Dec. 9 with one count of conspiracy to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization and one count of providing such support….
Higgins’ testimony added details that weren’t in the criminal complaint against Warsame, which included an affidavit from another FBI agent, Vadym Vinetsky, who wrote that Warsame was appointed “emir,” or leader of the local group, by Guled Ali Omar, who was planning to leave for Syria but was thwarted and is now among those awaiting trial.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew Winter told the court Warsame’s time as emir was brief, but it showed his leadership role in the alleged conspiracy, helping one defendant with money for an expedited passport and helping another alleged co-conspirator make contact with Islamic State facilitators in Turkey.
Recordings secretly made by an FBI informant included a conversation Warsame had with Omar about weapons, Higgins said. They discussed a propaganda video about a “tank hunter” who used rocket-propelled grenades. “The defendant indicated he would like to take such a role and said he quote, loved RPGs,” he testified.
In another conversation recorded by the informant, while walking around Lake Nokomis, which is under one of the airport’s main flight paths, Warsame said he could build “homemade rockets” that could reach 2,000 feet, Higgins testified. He suggested that was enough to hit a descending plane.
And from April to August of 2014, Warsame worked as a baggage handler at the airport “with access to the airplanes,” Higgins testified.
Under cross-examination from defense attorney Robert Sicoli, Higgins acknowledged that he wasn’t aware of any evidence that Warsame ever tried to build such a rocket. Sicoli then asked why, if Warsame was such a threat, authorities didn’t arrest him earlier. Higgins replied that that decision wasn’t up to him.
The agent also acknowledged that he wasn’t aware of Warsame doing anything suspicious, planting bombs or doing anything else illegal at the airport….
About a dozen Minnesota residents have traveled to Syria to join jihadist groups since late 2013. In addition, more than 22 young men from Minnesota’s Somali community have left the state since 2007 to join the Islamic extremist group al-Shabab in Somalia….

Eagle says
I will say this. I am sick and tired of being stripped of my gun at Disney, Universal and all these other places when they can’t guarantee me some POS like this isn’t working for them. They could easily smuggle weapons in leaving the rest of us to me slaughtered. So, I continue to violate their stupid park policy and use various means to stay armed when I am there.
Lupe says
The NSA isn’t spying on terrorists and illegal aliens etc. They’re spying on white christians. Now you’re on the list. To the Obama FEMA Death Camp with you.
Shane says
It is going to take more Islamic terror attacks and hundreds of dead Americans before the people will demand that Congress do something about our Muslim problem. Stopping all Muslim immigration into the West is the way to go.
Oliver says
I have said this before-it will take (just my opinion) JUST ONE KILLING. HOWEVER, THE KILLING HAS TO BE THAT OF A TOP POLITICIAN OR LIBERAL, OR A CLOSE FAMILY MEMBER OF HIS OR HER FAMILY.
AND NOT SOMETHING THAT COULD BE PALMED OFF ONTO SOME OTHER GROUP, R FOR ISLAMPHOBIA OR SOME SUCH BS.
JUST ONE.
Personally, I hope that it happens soon- TO A LIBERAL POLITICIAN OR FAMILY MEMBER, OR LAME STREAM MEDIA PERSON OR HIS/HER FAMILY. THEN WE MIGHT SEE SOME ACTION.
sahani says
USA will get destroyed just like other islamic nations not by outsiders but local convert muslims.
Muslim teaching are clear muslims have no love for nation
daniel sebold says
Wow! Ten Minnesota men. Eh? I mean, who would’ve known that so many Minnesota men could be like that? To think that I was born in Minnesota back in the fifties and never realized we been having such a problem, This problem anyway must’ve been incubating in the culture for decades for sure. I feel really bad. I wonder what the odds are that any of the men might be named Anderson. I mean, let’s be open minded. After all, we’re Minnesotans, you know. Right, Olie? Sven, what do you think? Eh? It just frosts my butt when this kind of thing happens. Minnesota, happy to be here. Let’s discuss this over some lutefisk ‘n stuff.
Matt Lucas says
Ever witness what one guy with an AK and a few of clips of ammo can do? Of course not…liberals hate the military and never serve…always let someone else do the heavy lifting. But they are very generous risking someone else’s life. I always marvel at how liberals play the statistics game, i.e. “it won’t me me” so who cares if some local schmuck gets blown away along with his kids at Mall of America?
borhood or hn adowntown on Hennepin avenue.
SpiritOf1683 says
No doubt, when he and his family were let into the US, you all thought you were inviting in future Nobel Prize Wiiners in Medicine.
SpiritOf1683 says
No doubt, when he and his family were let into the US, you all thought you were inviting in future Nobel Prize Winners in Medicine.
Angemon says
Either homemade rockets are so easy to build that an inbreed moron could do it or he had an overinflated (i.e. islamized) view of himself…
Joseph says
Angemon,
He is blowing smoke out of his ass. Model rocket engines take skill to make and have them actually work much less an engine that is capable of any type of payload.
He also does not really look like the type of person that could work out the physics of such a project. I couldn’t do it and I don’t know anyone who could.
Merry Christmas to you and yours Angemon, also a happy New Year.
To ALL J.W. readers; once again may you all have a Merry Christmas and may your New Year be filled with hope and dreams that come true. May this next year be full of peace and prosperity to those that want it and may NOT evil ever have it’s ugly hand touch you or your loved ones.
Jack says
It’s time to publcly expose CAIR’s trash so Middle America knows and cares.
Oliver says
Why ( this has been asked many times before here on JW, by numerous people) don’t we let these ragheads go to Syria, and get killed-hopefully sooner rather then later. And jsut never return. Or, to be more specific-if not killed, not allowed to return here.