Category: Africa

Jamal and Somalis in Minnesota complain that investigation into missing men is not going fast enough

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Update June 12th:  Unbelievable!  Somalis protest CAIR, tell them to butt out of federal investigation!

Ask CAIR what the hold-up is!

This is an update on the story we have been following this week that one of the missing Somali youths (former refugees) has been murdered in Somalia—possibly by his Muslim friends at the Islamic terror group al-Shabaab.

Meanwhile back in Minnesota, Somali mouthpiece Omar Jamal and relatives of the dead youth say the FBI isn’t moving fast enough to investigate how Burhan Hassan and maybe 20-40 other Somalis have left the US for terrorist training.

Family members and others in the community Monday expressed frustration with the slow pace of the FBI’s investigation into the missing men and vowed to continue pressing for answers.

“Our cause is not ended,” said Bihi. “Burhan is dead. We are going to continue. The death will energize us.”

Jamal added: “I hope the death of Burhan Hassan would lend a sense of urgency to the investigation.”

E.K. Wilson, a special agent with the Minneapolis FBI office, said he could not confirm Hassan’s death.

Maybe they could investigate if  the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) would get out of the way! I have written several times about how CAIR is blocking access to Somali students  and keeping them from speaking to FBI investigators.   Here is only the most recent post I wrote on the subject back in April, it’s entitled:  CAIR wants legal protection for students questioned by FBI!

This is the M.O. of grievance group, CAIR:  complain about how bad America is and how law enforcement is doing a lousy and discriminatory job while at the same time doing everything in its power (using our laws!) to slow down any attempt to get to the bottom of an investigation.  And, unfortunately, all too often we fall for it!

Comment worth noting: he was a defector, we shouldn’t bring his body here

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This is a comment from reader Joeyindc in response to my post in which Omar ‘Jesse Jackson’ Jamal was demanding the body of former Somali refugee Birhan Hassan be returned to the US.

Sounds to me like this terrorist is already home. He went to the place he was loyal to, died for his cause which was to fight for the land he considered home. He should be given a hero’s funeral in Somolia by the people who encouraged him to go. We shouldn’t be worrying about finding a way to bring him here. This wasn’t his home. He didn’t consider it to be otherwise he wouldn’t be trying to undermine the U.S.

His family and associates should be investigated to see what is going on over here and weed out the bad apples and send them back home so that we don’t have to worry about this kind of crap all of the time. It isn’t always our duty to do for people just because some special interest group wants us to. If he was fighting for our country, then of course he would be brought home. This isn’t the case. He was a defector of the U.S. When he went to fight for another country like that, he made his choice. His family and community should be more understanding of our nation’s feelings about those who are given a chance at a better life on our dime, then throws it in our faces. We don’t want him back.

Good point.  I only wish our CIA could dig up his body and do a positive ID.  This could all be a staged event for some twisted reason.

AP gets more details on Somali-American killed in Somalia

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This is an AP story from yesterday which I should have posted then but had no time.  So who knows, as fast as this story is going, it may be outdated already.  I notice that Somali mouthpiece, Omar Jamal, is now on the same page as the family in saying that Burhan Hassan was shot in the head by his “friends” in al Shabaab and didn’t die in artillery fire.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Burhan Hassan was an infant when he left his homeland of Somalia. He grew up American, a bright student with dreams of becoming a doctor or lawyer. But now his family is trying to find out why the 18-year-old was killed under mysterious circumstances in Somalia.

Hassan was one of about a dozen young Somali men who have gone missing from the Minneapolis area over the last couple years – recruited, their families say, by radical elements in Somalia. Relatives said they learned Friday that he had been killed and buried in Mogadishu, the Somali capital, but they had few details.

[….]

“We believe he was killed because he would have been a key person in the investigation into the recruitment (of young Somali men) here in Minneapolis,” said Hassan’s uncle, Abdirizak Bihi. Bihi said his nephew was found shot in the head in an open area of the city.

Digressing a bit for new readers who might be just today coming to Refugee Resettlement Watch for the first time.  This boy came to America with his family as a refugee.*  The American taxpayer has been taking care of his needs.  He came here as a tiny child and doesn’t even speak the Somali language. He was raised in America—wore baggy jeans and wanted to go to Harvard so we are told.  However, he did not assimilate.  It is worthwhile noting that the pull of the Islamic supremacism ideology is greater than the rewards of  living a free and good life in America and having stuff!

Ironically he might have died as a toddler in Somalia had we not plucked him from a camp in Kenya, fed and clothed him so he could go back and kill people for Allah.

Back to the AP story:

Bihi, Hassan’s uncle, has said that Hassan called home from time to time but the calls were short and cryptic. When family members asked Hassan what he was doing, the teen quickly ended the phone conversation.

Bihi said the teenager, who was in poor physical shape, had been sick – possibly with malaria – and that his family had been working to try to bring Hassan to the U.S. Embassy in Kenya. Bihi said the family suspected that Hassan was killed by members of al-Shabab.

CAIR wants answers!  What a joke, CAIR knows exactly what is going on.  How dare they make demands.   The implication here by Ms. Islam is that somehow our big bad FBI is being mean to the grieving Somali “community.”

“The community really wants answers, and it seems it’s taking longer and longer,” said Taneeza Islam, civil rights director for the Council on American-Islamic Relations of Minnesota.

Omar ‘Jesse Jackson’ Jamal:

I see that Omar Jamal is quoted again.  Will you ‘state run media’  types quit asking him for comment.   He should have been deported years ago.  Instead he sets up a one man operation called the Somali Justice Advocacy Center and reporters flock to him.  How about if you reporters start investigating his “Advocacy Center.”   He says it’s a non-profit group but there is no record of that.  Who is funding him?

Jamal said there is a concern Hassan was killed because of plans to return to the U.S., and he noted others are still unaccounted for. “Someone ought to be held accountable for this,” he said.

Previous posts on the death of Burhan Hassan are here and here.

To new readers:  To follow the whole saga of the missing former Somali refugees go here.   Also:

* 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.

The US must bring home the Somali terrorist’s body!

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Update June 10th:  My comments on that AP story of yesterday, here.

Update June 9th:  AP has more information here.

So says Omar Jamal, the one and only member of the Somali Justice Advocacy Center*of Minneapolis.   Give me a break!  

This is a followup to my previous post, here, about the news that one of the Somali youths who left the US voluntarily to join al Shabaab, a radical Islamist terrorist group trying to overthrow the Somali government, has been found dead in Somalia.  There are conflicting stories.  Jamal says he died from artillery fire, others say he was shot in the head by his buddies, al Shabaab.  But, no matter, Somalis in Minnesota headed by Omar ‘Jesse Jackson’ Jamal are “frustrated” and insisting the US investigate and bring home the body for burial.

From the Star-Tribune:

Omar Jamal, executive director of the Somali Justice Advocacy Center in Minneapolis, said his group is looking into the death of the 17-year-old and asking federal officials for help in getting his body returned for burial. He said the teen was killed in artillery fire.

Bihi said his sister received many visitors offering condolences on Saturday. He added that family members were planning to hold a strategy session Sunday because they’re frustrated by the lack of progress with the investigation.

“We don’t want to sit down and wait for answers. We want to take action.”

Think about the nerve of this—demanding action and wanting US taxpayers to pay for returning the body to the US.   Incidentally, this would be the second Somali terrorist we returned for burial in Minnesota.  Here is a post on the first, and note that Omar Jamal is involved there too!

And, check out this last line.  Guess the assimilation to America is working out real well—NOT!

Burhan Hassan, 17, was an infant when his family fled Somalia.

* Jamal’s one man advocacy group was in the news just yesterday, here, calling police in Minneapolis racist.  I wonder who taught Jamal his grievance politics?

Missing Somali youth found—dead

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Update June 10th:  Post today on that AP story of yesterday.

Update June 9th:  More from AP here.

Update Moments Later:   Omar Jamal:  the US must investigate and bring the terrorist’s body home to Minnesota.  The nerve!

It’s been awhile since we had any news about the missing Somali Americans, former refugees, believed to have joined al Shabaab for terrorist training in Somalia.  Hat tip: Whuptdue and Blulitespecial.

The boy’s family is reporting he was killed, shot in the head, by the radical Islamists he had gone to join.  No official report yet.  From Fox News:

A Minnesota man recruited to join an Al Qaeda-linked terrorist group overseas may have been assassinated in Somalia by the very terrorist group he went there to help.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has been investigating for several months at least 20 Somali-American men from the Minneapolis area who recently traveled to Somalia to train with the terrorist group al-Shabaab.

One of those men — 17-year-old Burhan Hassan — was killed in Mogadishu on Friday, his uncle, Osman Ahmed, told FOX News.

“Someone who claimed (to be) a member of al-Shabaab called Burhan’s mom Friday (afternoon) and said Burhan died Friday morning,” Ahmed said. “Burhan’s mom got shocked and (threw) the phone when she heard the story.”

“Al-Shabaab assassinated Burhan and shot (him in) the head,” the individual said, according to Ahmed.

A law enforcement official told FOX News on Sunday that one of the Somali-American men was recently killed in Somalia by artillery fire, but the official declined to release the man’s name.

“My sister still is under shock,” Ahmed said.

Ahmed added that he and his family last heard from Hassan two weeks ago.

I was in the hearing room for the superficial, politically correct hearing that was held in March of this year by Senator Lieberman’s Homeland Security committee.   Osman Ahmed testified that day and described his nephew as a smart kid but brainwashed by someone at the local mosque.

“(He) was a brilliant student with straight A’s and on top of his class,” Ahmed testified at a Senate hearing in March focusing on recruitment efforts by al-Shabaab. “He was an ambitious kid with the hope to go to Harvard University to study medicine or law and become a medical doctor or a lawyer.”

Ahmed accuses a local mosque of helping al-Shabaab recruit his nephew and others in the Minneapolis area.

Question for Lewiston, ME and Nashville, TN:  any Somali youths missing from your cities?

For new readers, 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.