…..or one of the hundreds of Somalis who have gotten into the US across our porous borders and disappeared.
He isn’t missing anymore, seems he is basically tied up in Montana for a few years after disrupting an Amtrak train and suggesting there might be a bomb on board.
Let me ask you, readers, did you ever see this story in the mainstream media back in February when it occurred? Heck the perp even appealed to CNN to get him on the news.
From the Great Falls Tribune. Hat tip: Paul
A Minneapolis man pleaded guilty Tuesday to federal charges stemming from a February bomb scare on a westbound Amtrak train that caused the entire train to be evacuated in severe winter conditions west of Browning.
Hussein Abdi Hassan, 24, pleaded guilty to false information/hoaxes. Sentencing has been set for Aug. 22.
According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, after Hassan was arrested and escorted off the train for disorderly conduct on Feb. 14, he told a Glacier County Sheriff’s deputy that he had left “something very dangerous” on the train. The train’s conductor had called ahead to the sheriff’s office and requested that Hassan be taken off at the Browning train depot because he was intoxicated and extremely disruptive.
Based upon the threat, the Amtrak train was stopped a short while later in a field between Browning and East Glacier. The Glacier County Sheriff’s Office arranged for approximately 140 passengers to be transported by bus to the Browning Middle School, where community volunteers took care of them. In order to get to the buses, passengers had to walk approximately 75 feet across a frozen pond in extremely snowy and windy conditions.
An explosives team from Malmstrom Air Force Base in Great Falls later searched the train after it was evacuated and found no explosives. [Was this a probe, I wonder—ed]
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Hassan demanded to know why he was being arrested.
“This is not right, I paid for a f- – – ing train ride, and where is my bag?” Hassan said. The deputy responded that he did not get off the train with a bag, at which point Hassan began to laugh, and said, “Damn fools, all of you.”
After Hassan asked again about his bag, he reportedly told the deputy, “No one will survive on that train.”
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The deputy asked Hassan whether he was lying,* to which he responded, “I am Muslim, I cannot lie.” Hassan then stated to the deputy, “We can sell our story to CNN for a large amount. I’ll be famous for awhile.”
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According to a March detention order signed by U.S. Magistrate Keith Strong, Hassan is not a U.S. citizen and could be deported back to Somalia upon conviction. Strong ordered that Hassan be held while the charges were being processed because he was deemed as a “serious” flight risk with no ties to Montana.
So where is CNN or anyone else in the mainstream media when you need them? Oh, yes, of course, this story doesn’t fit the narrative of the Left (see Soros’ “welcoming” America project).
* In Islam one is permitted to lie under certain circumstances. It is not clear what Hassan is talking about in this case. Here is one discussion of the Muslim practice of taqiyya (spelling may vary). Some believe that lying is just fine when it’s to an infidel.