Actually this article in St. Louis Today is about terrorism funding charges against a Somali man last November. It’s about cabdrivers being questioned by the FBI and its about Somalis and CAIR claiming that the FBI is targeting the Somali community and violating their civil rights—same old stuff we hear everywhere. I don’t get why this story was just reported yesterday, but to my critics who deny that there are Somali clan conflicts and tribal feuds in American and Canadian cities, here we have it mentioned again.
St. Louis Today:
On the same November day that federal authorities arrested an airport cabdriver and accused him of supporting a Somali terrorist organization, the FBI cast a wider net.
Agents descended on Lambert-St. Louis International Airport, where over two days 25 to 50 other cabdrivers, all refugees from Somalia, were summoned to the airport police office. One by one, they entered small rooms where FBI agents waited. [many questions followed].
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On Nov. 1, authorities arrested Mohamud Abdi Yusuf, who they allege collected and wired about $6,000 to al-Shabaab, an Islamist group that is trying to overthrow the shaky government of his impoverished east Africancountry. The U.S. government declared al-Shabaab a terrorist organization in 2008.
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U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has made outreach to Muslims a priority but also has defended aggressive FBI tactics, including the use of sting operations orchestrated by government informers. Since 2007, 37 defendants have been charged in federal court with terrorism violations related to al-Shabaab or other extremist groups in Somalia. Some Somalis believe informers are at work in St. Louis spreading false allegations to settle long-standing tribal grudges.
Just in the last two weeks we had clan feuds reported in Garden City, Kansas and in Edmonton, Canada.
For new readers: We have admitted well over 100,000 Somali refugees to the US. To check out the numbers visit this post, one of our most widely read posts over the last few years. In FY2010 which ended September 30th the US State Department resettled 4,884 Somalis (here) to towns near you.
Also, after being closed for nearly two years, the US State Department is on the verge of resuming the fraud-ridden family reunification program that admitted as many as 36,000 Somalis fraudulently to the US between 2003 and 2008. See the latest on new regulations, here. The State Department is on the verge of re-opening the program and may already have done so.
I wonder do the good people, the migration funders, like those at Unbound Philanthropy really know who they are helping to bring to the US?