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Minneapolis: Muslim migrant took journalist captive, threatened to sell him to jihad group if ransom wasn’t paid

Feb 25, 2019 9:00 am By Robert Spencer

Abdi Y. Hassan entered the United States in 2015. Obama assured us that migrants were properly vetted. They weren’t.

“Somali-born U.S. citizen arrested in Minneapolis, charged with taking journalist captive,” by Paul Walsh and Liz Sawyer, Star Tribune, February 22, 2019:

A U.S. citizen is jailed in central Minnesota and charged with participating in the kidnapping of a freelance journalist in Somalia, where he was held for nearly three years over a $20 million ransom.

Abdi Y. Hassan, 51, was charged in federal court in New York with six felony counts ranging from kidnapping to hostage-taking to illegal use of firearms.

Hassan was born in the Somali capital of Mogadishu. He was arrested last Friday in Minneapolis and will be returned to New York for further court proceedings….

According to the criminal complaint, Hassan and other heavily armed captors abducted the journalist on Jan. 21, 2012, from a vehicle in the northern Somali city of Galkayo. One or more of the men hit their victim in the head and body with guns….

Hassan, who appeared to the journalist to be a leader among the other armed guards, directed his hostage to make a phone call and encourage family to sell a residence to pay for his release. This was one of several such calls made to family, and some of them were recorded by the FBI, which also secured videos of the hostage speaking on camera.

Threats by the hostage-takers if the $20 million was not received included withholding food and water from the journalist. The gunmen also demanded a letter signed by a high-ranking U.S. official pledging that the kidnappers would not be held responsible for the abduction.

At one point, the family member was told that the situation had “gotten very serious” and that another hostage had been tortured in front of the journalist.

A three-day deadline was set for payment of the ransom; otherwise, the journalist told the family member, the captors would sell the journalist to al-Shabab, a jihadist fundamentalist group that in 2012 pledged allegiance to the militant Islamist organization al-Qaida.

One video showed the journalist with a prayer shawl over his head and surrounded by masked and armed kidnappers. The hostage was heard saying that his captors wanted the United States and another country to pay the ransom.

Hassan arrived in the United States in September 2015. In an interview with a U.S. customs officer, he said he worked as a security minister for Galmudug state in Somalia, which includes Galkayo. He said a major part of his duties was arranging for the release of the journalist.

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  1. John Allan says

    Feb 25, 2019 at 9:23 am

    ‘Hassan … said a major part of his duties was arranging for the release of the journalist.’

    And the tw_t thought he wouldn’t be found out?

    • Frederick King says

      Feb 26, 2019 at 5:23 am

      A citizen, already ? wonder if he voted for Omar ?

  2. mortimer says

    Feb 25, 2019 at 9:29 am

    Slavery is considered normative Islam, rather than an aberration and that is reflective in the huge amount of text devoted to the subject of slavery in Sharia law manuals.

    No one is as ‘submitted’ as a slave. Thus, Islam (submission) is a euphemism for ‘slavery’.

  3. DBM echo says

    Feb 25, 2019 at 9:30 am

    Imagine that. A Muslim lying.

  4. infidel says

    Feb 25, 2019 at 9:44 am

    So this was easy money for this sick Islamic thug as is all of his kind…

  5. Ashley says

    Feb 25, 2019 at 9:51 am

    https://www.twincities.com/2019/02/21/u-s-citizen-arrested-in-minneapolis-charged-in-kidnapping-of-journalist-in-somalia/

    • Ashley says

      Feb 25, 2019 at 10:08 am

      More regarding this…

      https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/09/nyregion/pirate-somali-kidnapped-journalist.html

      • gravenimage says

        Feb 26, 2019 at 6:11 pm

        Thanks for the links, Ashley.

  6. Kilauea says

    Feb 25, 2019 at 10:03 am

    Send him to Egypt and let our “friends” in Egyptian Intelligence question him for us.

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 25, 2019 at 4:50 pm

      I would not count on Muslims doing much to help Infidels.

  7. WPM says

    Feb 25, 2019 at 10:16 am

    With the current two new members of the religion of peace in congress be calling for a amnesty for this poor Minneapolis American citizen ? Is anyone concern that is why President Trump wants a vetting process in place that we cannot except people from places we cannot document if they are not violent criminals and or terrorist?

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 25, 2019 at 4:52 pm

      I know that Ilhan Omar has already called for the US to go easy on Jihad terrorists.

      • WPM says

        Feb 26, 2019 at 5:42 am

        She is a jihadist terrorist using her office to bring Sharia law a little at time to the US government. It starts with little things like wearing head covering while working in congress (no member s have congress are can wear head covering ,hats wigs ,veils ,a tradition going back to the 1800s} working up to pardoning returning jihadist, to passing censor laws if she is given a chance.

        • gravenimage says

          Feb 26, 2019 at 6:14 pm

          Spot on, WPM.

    • joanofark06 says

      Feb 26, 2019 at 10:18 am

      Trump is talking out of both sides of his mouth. Vetting muslims, eh? While he hosts a ramadan dinner in the White House, and is so proud of the pretty little speech to the millions that are in this country, that he puts it on the White House dot GOV page, and it’s STILL there, today?

      Presidential Message on Ramadan
      Issued on: May 15, 2018

      https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/presidential-message-ramadan/

      Could you possibly tell me what the cult-like “rising of the moon”, means on the first sentence?
      Wonder what pony tricks he’ll play on us, for this NEXT ramadan!

      • gravenimage says

        Feb 26, 2019 at 6:17 pm

        Yes, I’d like to see Trump even tougher on Islam.

        But you regularly slam him, even though he is getting enormous amounts of opposition for the attempts he *has* made to keep us safe.

        Also, you have never said how you think Hillary Clinton would have been better…

  8. Jay says

    Feb 25, 2019 at 10:35 am

    I wonder if this man is another relative/brother to the traitor house rep Omar??
    There is a good possibility!!

    • WPM says

      Feb 25, 2019 at 4:27 pm

      With all the interbreeding in the Moslem world everyone seems to be the related to everyone else a very shallow gene pool if you dive in your children are bound to have something wrong with them.

    • Frederick King says

      Feb 26, 2019 at 5:25 am

      From the same tribe, at least.

  9. No Muzzies Here says

    Feb 25, 2019 at 12:49 pm

    When they enter the United States they do not leave their value system behind. They bring it with them, refuse to give it up, and try to force Americans to adhere to it.

  10. Lynn says

    Feb 25, 2019 at 3:55 pm

    If Hassan entered the US in 2015, how could he have become a citizen so quickly? My husband came in 1950 at the age of 9 as a refugee from communism. His parents became citizens after 5 years in the US but my husband had to wait until he turned 18 and could take the oath of citizenship as an adult. Hassan should not have been eligible for citizenship until after September 2020.

    • joanofark06 says

      Feb 26, 2019 at 10:20 am

      Good point! Sounds like our whole government is corrupt, inside and out.

    • SweetOlBob says

      Feb 26, 2019 at 5:53 pm

      Lynn:
      there is NO WAY ANY of the somalis plunked down in pods by the little muslim fraud obama* should have recieved citizenship. Citizenship for people who are strangers to flush toilets and shoes ??
      His filthy plans are coming home to roost. The knob headed Somalis are now strong enough to be the majority in some districts. That gives us the curse of muslims in our government. Just as muslims do everywhere, the first thing was a demand to change the old rules and permit the wearing of an in-your-face headbag. More demands will follow.
      And the filthy muslims will no doubt be permitted to stay even though laws have been broken by their even running for office.
      Will these tapioca brained liberals never wake up ? Throw these Crooked, Demanding, heathens out !
      *Lower Case Intentional

  11. gravenimage says

    Feb 25, 2019 at 4:45 pm

    Minneapolis: Muslim migrant took journalist captive, threatened to sell him to jihad group if ransom wasn’t paid
    ………………..

    *These* are the kinds of Muslim thugs that have flooded into America. How many more are like him?

    • Frederick King says

      Feb 26, 2019 at 5:26 am

      The Somalis are also the kings of “Dine and Dash.”

      • gravenimage says

        Feb 26, 2019 at 6:20 pm

        Not good–but far exceeded by other forms of Jihad evil, as in the story above.

    • joanofark06 says

      Feb 26, 2019 at 10:21 am

      Millions!

  12. WAYNEY says

    Feb 25, 2019 at 5:22 pm

    Pictures say a thousand words , Just look at this guys face ,only his mother may love him

  13. Carolyne says

    Feb 25, 2019 at 9:59 pm

    The Somalis, with whom Hussein Obama seemed to be in love, are the most vicious, violent and unattractive of all the garbage Obama set loose on us.

    • joanofark06 says

      Feb 26, 2019 at 10:41 am

      I sure am tired of hearing about Obummer. Yeah, we know what he’s done to this country by now! I’m pretty sure everyone knows, hopefully, by now. But I really get tired of having to keep showing and telling people what Trump is doing! Like a double headed monster, he’s doing, or saying one thing, and turning around, and doing or saying another. Ok, I’ll post it one more time, “sigh”:

      But first, doesn’t everyone know by now, that Trump did, is IS doing almost the EXACT same thing Obummer did. Between “bending down”, to receive a pretty gold necklace from the Saudi king (and who can forget Obummer, “bending down”, to “pick up his pen” in front of the Saudi king?), while the Saudi’s lavished many expensive gifts on Trump, when he made THAT muslim country, his first overseas visit?

      And so, continuing, he hosts a ramadan dinner in the White House, lavishes praise and good will, to the millions of muslims in this country, and if that wasn’t bad enough, he’s so proud of it, that he posts that pretty little speech on the White House dot GOV webpage: (I have all articles, and videos on everything I’ve said so far)

      Presidential Message on Ramadan
      Issued on: May 15, 2018

      https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/presidential-message-ramadan/

      And how many times has Trump lied? Saying he’s gonna get our troops home, but then, all these years, he’s used trillions of taxpayer’s money to make Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Afghanistan, etc etc,…great again, while our soldiers die from the SAME kind of “people”, that Trump is STILL bringing in! (He said he’s putting a “cap” on 30,000 more immigrants to come into this country, THIS year!). And oh…wait, let’s make Venezuela great again! If you think, now, that he said our troops are coming out of what? One or two countries? Yeah, but don’t get excited, their just being moved around like chess pieces to other places around the globe!
      Yeah, Trump really pulls on the heart strings of Americans good! But dang, I thought that “snake poem”, was something too. He’s still playing Americans good..

  14. balafama says

    Feb 26, 2019 at 4:02 am

    how does one come to america in 2015 and is already a citizen in about 3 yrs?

  15. UNCLE VLADDI says

    Feb 26, 2019 at 4:51 am

    I’m on the fence about this one (“journalist,” and all)!

    😉

  16. joanofark06 says

    Feb 26, 2019 at 11:10 am

    I got enough articles, video’s, etc, archived from Minneapolis, when it comes to muslims. I wouldn’t need anymore, to show people what THAT place is becoming! (And yeah, how does this “muslim” become a citizen in 3 years?) But that’s not the only place, oh no, not the only place…in America. I’ve archived enough Americans dying, or getting stabbed, acid thrown on, raped, run over, etc etc…because of “them”! (I’d love to stop reading from Robert and Pam’s website, but…well, I can’t. It’s like a horror movie, that you just can’t tear your eyes away from! And knowing it’s for real, makes even more horrifying!).
    But I do hate watching this country die a slow death. But hey, Trump is doing SO much for this country! Right? Yeah…ok. Anyone who can believe that, after he hosts a ramadan dinner in the White House? And then be so proud of his speech to the millions of “them”, that are in this country, that he puts on the White House dot GOV page? (Everyone seen my link to that yet? If not, just ask).
    He lied when he said he was a christian. No christian celebrates another people’s “god”, and not when he says “he’s done nothing to be forgiven for”.
    And someone who sends thousands of our men to die, from who’s hands? Is that helping OUR country? Millions of taxpayers dollars, wasted, for what? To make Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Yemen, etc etc….great again?? And if your listening to him now say, he’s bringing our troops out of there, and isn’t that wonderful? Yeah, their nothing but chess pieces to move around the board. Besides, we gotta go make Venezuela great again you know?? I could go on and on. But Trump can sure pull some wool over so many Americans eyes. He can talk a good talk, I give him that, but then that’s what makes a business man believable….to gullible people.

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