Category: Africa

Second Somali pleads guilty in missing “youths” case

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The second Somali former refugee who is alleged to have traveled to Somalia for terrorist training pleaded guilty in Minneapolis today.  Hat tip: a friend from Tennessee.

From the Minneapolis Star-Tribune:

Salah Osman Ahmed, 26, pleaded guilty in federal court today to providing material support to terrorists, according to his attorney.

Ahmed, a part-time security guard from Brooklyn Park, is accused of traveling to Somalia in December 2007, allegedly to train with al-Shabaab, an Islamic militant group that federal officials say has links to al-Qaida.

Ahmed’s attorney, James Ostgard, said late Monday night that his client will plead guilty to a single count — providing material support to terrorists — before U.S. District Judge James Rosenbaum. In exchange for the guilty plea, Ostgard said three other counts will be dismissed at Ahmed’s sentencing: Conspiracy to Kill, Kidnap, Main [Maim?] and Injure and two counts of giving false information to law enforcement.

Ahmed was one of two men indicted by a grand jury in February for training with al-Shabaab. Abdifatah Yusuf Isse, 25, of Seattle, Wash., also has admitted to federal investigators that he trained with the terrorist group. Isse has already pleaded guilty.

I guess I can’t get too excited, I’m now waiting for the big fish to be revealed—the brains behind this operation.  AND, I am waiting for some real investigative reporter to look into new angles—all the media stories are so humdrum.   Why don’t you guys look into the on-going feud in the Minneapolis Somali community? Or, why don’t you figure out who fingered Zakaria Maruf as “the recruiter” to the New York Times reporter?    Whoever did that likely knows who the real recruiter or recruiters are!  Was it just coincidence that Maruf was dead on the morning the NYT story hit the newstands? And,  I would like to know what Omar Jamal’s role in all this really is!  Or, how about someone compiling a list of which men exactly are missing.  Or, find out what CAIR is trying to hide?  And, here is one I think would be fascinating to know, did either of these two Somalis who did go to Africa ever meet Al-Amriki?

Hey, by the way, this story today wasn’t all  ho-hum, it did have a bit of interesting information that made me chuckle.   Ahmed has been working as a security guard!  Don’t you wonder exactly what he was guarding and what sort of credentials he gave the employer.   Experience handling an AK-47 maybe?

For new readers, here is my archival post on the Somali missing youths story, sans a few recent events because I was getting bored with the whole thing.

Somali murder suspect still loose in Seattle; “community” not talking

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More on the Somali refugee news front!  Eight months have passed and investigators still can’t get anyone to come forward in Seattle’s Somali community although law enforcement believes that lots of the former refugees know the murderer.  By the way, the article doesn’t say where he is from, but judging by his name,  it looks like the murder victim was another immigrant.

Somali community leaders blame the silence on the terrible experiences Somalis had in their homeland.  That, in my opinion, is B.S.  As we learned in Minneapolis, many of the Somali gang members have been raised since babies in the US.

From Seattle Weekly:

Paljor Thong was standing in an alley outside Afriq, a Skyway nightclub, when shots rang out. The 22-year-old was not normally one for carousing; according to members of his typically large Sudanese family, he preferred to spend evenings at their cramped but tidy South Seattle apartment. But on one cool Friday night last November, he opted instead to celebrate the arrival of the weekend with a trip to Afriq, a restaurant-cum-dancehall located just south of the Seattle city limits.

By last call, he’d be dead.

Almost eight months later, Thong’s murder remains unsolved. County investigators are convinced that the shooter was one of a group of 20-something Somali men who were at Afriq that evening. As the night headed into early morning, members of that group, sons of the tens of thousands of Somali immigrants who in recent years have flocked to south King County, got into a shoving match at the bar. After the club closed for the evening, the confrontation continued outside in the dimly-lit parking lot.

By the time the first 911 call was made at 2:10 a.m., what had begun as an argument over the use of the men’s bathroom* had erupted into a 20-person brawl in the middle of Renton Avenue South. According to detectives with the Sheriff’s Department’s Major Crimes Unit, a male suspect retreated to a red BMW to retrieve a handgun. He then turned back toward the club and fired five shots into the scrum. When deputies arrived minutes later, Thong was already dead, shot in the back as the assailant pursued him through an alley leading to a parking lot behind the club.

Read on, there is more.

So where does some poor impoverished refugee get a red BMW?

I’ve told you about Somali gang violence in Seattle previously.  Here is an archive of all of our posts on the subject.

* I don’t know what the bathroom issue was in this case, but awhile back, reader Truth Serum sent us more information than you might want to know (here) about Muslim toileting techniques.

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The US State Department has admitted over 80,000 Somali refugees to the US in the last 25 years and then last year had to suspend family reunification because widespread immigration fraud was revealed through DNA testing.

Multicultural Mecca Maine: The African immigration magnet

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Update August 6th:  The African woman in this story gets off easier, here.

Update August 3rd:  New strain of HIV found in woman (in Paris) from Cameroon, here.

What the heck is going on in Maine?   Here is yet another story of an African immigrant getting into legal trouble in Maine!  (Hat tip: Susan)   What!  Is  the word out on the street and across the whole continent of Africa—go to Maine!    Additionally, I found it interesting to note this woman went first to Maryland then Maine, just as the Nigerian woman who bilked the UN did, here.

Check out our recent posts on Lewiston, ME Somali health care fraud, the Nigerian woman in Portland who embezzled UN money (link in previous paragraph), Sudanese riots also in Portland and the Nigerian identity fraud med student scammer.  Now we have a woman from Cameroon who is pregnant and has HIV-Aids.

BANGOR — A pregnant, HIV-positive African woman convicted of having false documents will be resentenced on Aug. 5 in U.S. District Court after winning her appeal of a sentence that would have forced her to give birth behind bars.

Quinta Layin Tuleh, 28, of Cameroon has been free on bail since June 15 pending the outcome of her appeal to the U.S. 1st Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston. Tuleh, whose due date is Aug. 29, agreed last month to live in Portland and receive treatment at the Frannie Peabody Center.

Tuleh was released on bail a few days before she was scheduled to be transferred to Carswell Federal Medical Center in Fort Worth, Texas, according to the U.S. Marshals Service in Bangor.

U.S. District Judge John Woodcock in May sentenced Tuleh to 236 days in prison — more than twice as long as the recommended sentence of 114 days — for having false Social Security and employment authorization cards. The federal prosecutor and Tuleh’s court-appointed defense attorney both urged the judge to sentence her to time served, or 114 days.

Woodcock said that to ensure Tuleh received proper medical care through the birth of her child and to increase its chances of being born free of the HIV virus, he was sentencing her to federal prison until two weeks past her due date.

Nice of the judge, huh, concerned about the baby’s health.  Now she can have her anchor baby.  Fat chance she will be deported once the ‘healthy’ baby arrives!

Tuleh still faces deportation because of her conviction. Once she is resentenced, removal proceedings against her are expected to begin.

Now this makes no sense, you can’t just ask for asylum because you were the victim of a crime.  If that were the case, everyone in the world could be here tomorrow.  This is very confusing—I’d like to know who abused her, was it her US employer, the one who hired her as a nanny?   Read carefully, there is something missing in this account. 

She is in the process of applying for asylum in the U.S., according to court documents, on the basis that she has been the victim of a crime. She may have suffered abuse while working for her former employer, who has not been named, in Aroostook County, according to an affidavit filed by her immigration attorney with the Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project in Portland.

Tuleh arrived in September 2008 in New York City and lived in Maryland until early January, when she went to Presque Isle to work as a nanny for a family, according to court documents. She was arrested Jan. 21 at the Presque Isle Airport after false documents were discovered in her luggage.

She became pregnant before she came to Maine, according to her previous attorney, but did not confirm the pregnancy until after her arrest. Her HIV status was not known until a few days before her sentencing in May.

Portland Press Herald reader Chris had this to say:

I can’t belive it! We in Maine DESERVE to be in the condition we are in! We voted in a bunch of idiots running our state. WHY wasn’t she just deported before the birth? I’m sick of paying for illegals kids!

And Bangor News SHE ISN”T an immigrant!!! She’s an illegal immigrant! Why drag good immigrants names thru the mud.

You in the useless biased media disgust me….. you’re all jerks! Hows the newspaper business going? What’s the matter can’t you sell enough of your Liberal dribble. Americans are waking up and you all are going down. Let someone unbiased run your rag!!! 

Now for this Maryland connection, Cameroon, Cameroon, Cameroon.   Oh, yes, where have I heard that before?  Maybe, just maybe, this woman got into the US with the help of the now CONVICTED MARYLAND ASYLUM LAWYER FROM CAMAROON, Patrick Tzeuton, here.

Al-Shabaab throws UN out of Somalia (?), calls US the head of world infidels

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I started to write this post yesterday, but had no time to finish it.  First I had received the press release purportedly from Al-Shabaab (below) saying the Jihadists had raided and closed United Nations offices and thought the story was new, but it isn’t.  It is a couple days old. 

I found this Bloomberg article from Monday that reports that the UN is trying to get its “humanitarian” work up and running again.  I don’t know if they did or did not, but frankly that isn’t the point I want to make here.

This is the message to all the UN-loving humanitarian do-gooders basking in the warm after-glow  of the Obama Cairo speech.    Please note that they hate you too!  The Islamists who want to bring Shariah law to Somalia and the world don’t give a flying crap (sorry!) how nice you are and that your intentions are good ones.  Please go back and listen to the American Al-Shabaab, Al-Amriki, having a good sneer at Obama’s mystical charisma here.

In fact, when the UNHCR bends over backwards to be fair in resettling Muslims to the West (they don’t dare show favoritism to those Christian Iraqi refugees!), the Islamists are laughing their heads off because you (the UN and the leftist refugee industry) are helping them spread their ideology around the world.  (Remember Al-Hijra, the Islamic doctrine of immigration).

P.S.  Islamic Shariah law also says infidels must be warned in advance of being attacked.  NGO’s consider yourself warned.

The press release from Al-Shabaab on Monday.

I’m posting the whole press release as it came across my desk yesterday thanks to Bill.   Seems it is true, and it look like it’s from MEMRI here.   I’m posting it to demonstrate the love the Islamists have for the UN and all its liberal do-gooders.

New readers, Al-Shabaab is the Jihadist group believed to be recruiting in the US Somali refugee community.

Posted this morning on various jihadist sites:

A press release issued by the Office of Political Affairs and Regional Administrations of the Shabaab al Mujahidiin Movement regarding various non-governmental organizations and foreign committees working in Somalia

1 – We are officially announcing the formation, beginning today, 27 Rajab 1430, corresponding to July 20, 2009, of the Office to Supervise the Affairs of the Foreign Committees. This office will be charged with following the movements of non-governmental organizations and foreign committees operating in the country. Coordination of their operations will be handled through this office, and this office will ensure the content of what they are presenting to the public.

All of the non-governmental organizations and foreign committees are required to immediately contact the Office to Supervise the Affairs of the Foreign Committees in each Islamic state under the control of the Movement where the non-governmental organization of foreign committee wants to work. They will be informed of the conditions and restrictions that are imposed on them to continue their work in the country.

Any non-governmental organization or foreign committee ith proven involvement in conducting projects against Islam and Muslims in Somalia or aimed at disrupting the formation of an Islamic State in the country will have their offices closed immediately and will be subject to the full extent of punishment in accordance with Sharia law.

2 – Beginning from the publishing of this announcement, a number of non-governmental organizations and foreign committees currently operating in Somalia have had their offices completely closed permanently because they are considered to be hostile to Islam and Muslims. They are the following:

the United Nations Development Program

the United Nations Office for Peace and Security

the United Nations Political Office for Somalia

The decision for closure and expulsion has already been made for these committees after a precise examination of their activities and the true motivations behind their presence in Somalia. Their involvement in activities hostile to Islam and Muslims and their attempts to preclude the formation of an Islamic state in parts of Somalia have already been proven. Among the evidence of their hostility towards Islam, is their aid to the apostate government in Somalis and their participation in supplying and training militias to fight the Mujahidiin, in addition to fundraising and lobbying on behalf of the mercenary African forces in Mogadiscu.

It has also been confirmed that they aided remnants of the apostate militia as they regrouped in border areas adjacent to Islamic states with the goal of disrupting security and stability in these states.

Note that previously, all of the offices of the two organizations ‘imc’ and ‘care’ were closed after we stumbled onto evidence that showed their participation in activities hostile to Islam and their involvement in intelligence activities on behalf of the United States of America – the head of world infidels. Some of these activities led to the assassination of Sheikh Abu Muhsin Al Ansari Adam Airo – May Allah have mercy on him.

 

The Office of Political Affairs and Regional Administrations 

This and what comes after are remarks from the publishing of this statement from this office. A battalion of the al-Hesbah Army left the city of Baidooa and went to the offices of the United Nations. All of the funds and equipment and tools there were confiscated. From another side, the al-Hesbah Army in a city located in the state of Bakool did the same thing at the same time and gave the state a mandate for United Nations employees to leave the areas belonging to the Islamic State, and the matter happened as spoken. Praise and thanks and glory be to Allah.

O God, Revealer of the book, Disperser of the clouds, Defeater of the parties, defeat the Crusaders, and their apostate allies!

O God, make them and their equipment easy booty for Muslims!

O God, destroy them and shake them!

O God, You are the one who helps us and the one who assists us, with Your power we move and by Your power we fight!

God is Great!

But honor belongs to Allah, and thus to His Messenger, and to the Believers; but of this the hypocrites are not aware

(Partial Koranic verse; Al-Munafiqun 63:8)

The Media Section of the Mujahidin Youth Movement Al-Usra Army in Somalia

July 20,2009