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All eyes on the Imam as Somali terror funding trial gets underway in San Diego

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Update on the trial (February 20th) here. From UT San Diego (emphasis mine): SAN DIEGO — Scores of recorded phone calls show that four Somali immigrants conspired in 2008 to raise money and send it to their homeland to assist the terrorist group al-Shabaab, a federal prosecutor said at the opening Wednesday of a terrorism … Continue reading All eyes on the Imam as Somali terror funding trial gets underway in San Diego

Somali terror funding trial opens in Minneapolis tomorrow

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Update October 2nd:  Here is an AP report published in the Washington Post today on the opening of the terror funding/jihadist recruitment trial of Mahamud Said Omar.  Here is the same story in the Miami Herald if the WaPo won’t let you open it.   I just noticed that the article never uses the word “refugee.”  … Continue reading Somali terror funding trial opens in Minneapolis tomorrow

Somali terror funding trial continues in Minneapolis; Omar wants different interpreter

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The terror funding trial of Mahamud Said Omar who was captured and extradited from the Netherlands continued in Minnesota.  Omar complains (in between passing out in court) that he doesn’t understand the dialect of the Somali language interpreter and wants a new one. From AP: MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Attorneys for a Somali man accused of … Continue reading Somali terror funding trial continues in Minneapolis; Omar wants different interpreter

US Attorney Virginia: Somali refugee women charged with funding Somali Islamic terror group

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I was surprised to see this story.  I thought all of the cases of Islamic terror fundraising for al-Shabaab by Somalis we brought to America through refugee resettlement (at your expense) had gone to trial and those convicted were safely tucked away in prison (at your expense).  Oh, and adding insult to injury, it is … Continue reading US Attorney Virginia: Somali refugee women charged with funding Somali Islamic terror group