….just a harmless nut!
JJ, I couldn’t resist, had to get this Somali refugee story posted (although I still have a bunch more stories today that are Somali-free).
From WFAA.TV:
IRVING — The FBI and the Joint Terrorism Task Force joined the investigation of an Irving taxicab driver after firefighters found suspicious materials inside his apartment near Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport on Sunday morning.
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The unspecified items were discovered after Irving firefighters responded to a small fire at apartment of 41-year-old Sharif Ahmed Nour.
Not o.k. mentally!
A friend, Ahmed Riyalle, told News 8 that the cab driver is from Somalia and has been driving cabs in and out of Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport for years.
“He’s not okay,” Riyalle said. “Mentally, he’s not okay, but he is able to work.”
Riyalle said Nour never appeared to be threatening.
Nour is under arrest, and was originally going to be charged with having bomb-making components, but it was later decided to charge the man with possession of prohibited weapons.
Two possibly related links
This week Fox News reported that the World Health Organization declares Somalia to have one of the world’s highest rates of mental illness, here, and then I came across this EthnoMed report about the high levels of mental illness among Somali refugees in the US—great huh!
So now we can all calm down about terror plots by mentally impaired cabbies.