As most know, a terrorist attack on a shopping mall in Columbus, OH was thwarted last week, with the arrest of one of the perps, Nuradin M. Abdi. Abdi was associated with Al Qaeda, and as Attorney General John Ashcroft keeps telling us as he nabs these folks, AQ wants to hit us at home, and hit us hard.
Michelle Malkin's new column this morning examines just how Abdi was able to quietly enter the US. Of course the unanswered question in all of this is how many other terrorists are out there plotting to blow up a shopping mall in Denver or an amusement park in Atlanta, or a ball park in St. Louis?
Nuradin M. Abdi, who was indicted last week for plotting with al-Qaida to blow up an Ohio shopping mall, flew here from Somalia and received bogus "refugee" status in 1999, according to authorities. Prosecutors allege that Abdi then fraudulently obtained a refugee travel document, which he used to fly to Ethiopia for jihad training. After returning, Abdi blended back into the American landscape along with tens of thousands of other refugees from a country known to be a breeding ground for Islamic terrorists. Columbus, Abdi's home base, is home to more than 30,000 Somalis — the second-largest Somali community in the United States, after Minneapolis.Be safe, everyone. Be safe. Posted by mhking at June 16, 2004 09:44 AMThe Somali-al-Qaida connection is well-established. Intelligence reports indicate that Osama bin Laden sent extremists to Somalia in the early 1990s to train and organize the Somali Islamic radical group al-Ittihad al-Islamiya. Bin Laden claimed responsibility for the deaths of 18 American soldiers in Mogadishu. In addition, a Saudi Arabian-based Muslim charity with alleged ties to al-Qaida has been funding refugee camps in Somali border towns. The feds have frozen the Al-Haramain Foundation's assets based on terrorism grounds, but the flow of refugees from the overseas camps subsidized by the group has not been stanched.
in 1999, according to authorities. Prosecutors allege that Abdi then fraudulently obtained a refugee travel document, which he used to fly to Ethiopia for jihad training. After returning, Abdi blended back into the American landscape along with tens of thousands of other refugees from a country known to be a breeding ground for Islamic terrorists. Columbus, Abdi's home base, is home to more than 30,000 Somalis — the second-largest Somali community in the United States, after Minneapolis
Posted by: ali at January 13, 2005 01:02 PMi think this post in completly untrue because we know somalia is not Terrorist Base .. all what we know is that somalia is very poor country and the people up there are stragelling to Live .. There is Islamic fandamentals in there as they are in USA & Uk but there is no orginized terrorists in somalia ..... and as all the American People in Minneapolis saw .. The Somalian People Are Very Simple and They Respect The American Law 100%
Posted by: adam at July 29, 2005 06:06 PMAdam....Mr. "Abdi," is it?
Please proove the truth in your statement. How are we supposed to know that there are no terrorists in Somalia? What gives you the idea that we should believe you, huh?
Just because you say it's so?
I'll remember that the next time an Islamic terrorist tries to take out Westerners.
Until you and your fellow travelers begin to take steps to denounce and repudiate the Islamikazis and begin to take back your religion (which you have neglected to do since before 9/11, thank you very much), don't come whining to me about how Somalis or any other Muslim-worshiping nations or peoples are "simple," "peaceful," and "respect American law."
I don't believe you.
Moreover, I think you're full of used food.
Posted by: Michael at July 29, 2005 06:21 PM