I’ve been procrastinating on posting this story for a few days mostly because I’m sick of hearing about it—that is, the story about the poor Somali “kids” recruited to join the jihad in Somalia. I’m sick of the ‘we are the victims’ talk from the families of the ungrateful youths who had been granted a shot at the American Dream and basically said ‘s**** you,’ I’m going to Africa to be a jihadist!’
So here we have one more whine-fest from the families who want answers to what happened to their “kids.” You see, it’s now all our fault that they didn’t watch their “kids” closely enough.
From the Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Nearly three years ago, a Minneapolis man blew himself up oceans away in Somalia.
His death put Minnesota at the heart of a still unfolding multinational counterterrorism probe that has seen 20 Minnesotans indicted on terror-related charges, at least another nine killed in fighting overseas and a handful more arrested and convicted. Others have been charged with fundraising or wiring money to a terror group in Somalia, and one of the men charged is scheduled to go on trial next month — a first in the case.
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder visited Minneapolis last month to reaffirm his office’s commitment to rooting out those responsible for the recruiting of young Somali-Americans to return to Africa to fight for the terrorist group Al-Shabab.
Yet investigators appear no closer to unmasking a leader of the nebulous network that found foot soldiers in the Twin Cities.
The FBI’s failure so far to publicly uncover a mastermind has spawned disillusionment among some in the local Somali community who wonder when, if ever, justice will be served.
“They know the big recruiters. The government knows everything,” said Abdirizak Bihi, whose teenage nephew is believed to have been killed in Somalia in 2009 after joining Al-Shabab, which U.S. officials say is affiliated with Al-Qaida.
“Someone organized this group,” said Dr. Abdirahman D. Mohamed, a local physician and community leader. “The fact that we can’t find those key individuals two years-plus, that has created a lot of people saying, ‘What’s going on here?'”
Read on to learn more about bad America.
For New Readers! Stories like this one always bring new readers to RRW and you should know that the US State Department brings in thousands of Somalis every year as refugees. Groups like Catholic Charities, the Hebrew Immigrant Aide Society, Church World Service and World Relief (among others) are paid with your tax dollars to resettle them in your towns.
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. The “teen” would-be bomber in Oregon was one of the refugees.
Also, after being closed for nearly two years, the US State Department is on the verge (has been on the verge for months and months!) 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.
Now, also, Somalis are coming illegally across our borders and ironically asking for asylum because of the radical Islamic Jihadists (including Americans!) in Africa.