ISIS in the Twin Cities

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On June 3, a Minnesota jury returned guilty verdicts against three Somali-Americans who disputed the ISIS-related terrorism charges brought against them by the office of United States Attorney for Minnesota Andrew Luger. Ten defendants were initially charged, but six had already pleaded guilty by the time the trial started. The Minnesota trial represents the largest such case ever brought in the United States, yet the news it generated has been obscured by the June 12 Orlando massacre.

The case went to trial before Judge Michael Davis in federal district court in Minneapolis on May 9. Davis did an excellent job keeping the courtroom safe and the trial under control. Four or five visibly armed Department of Homeland Security officers patrolled the atrium of the federal courthouse. Officers from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms put bomb-sniffing dogs to work in the corridors. While family and friends of the defendants packed the courtroom, Davis enforced strict behavior protocols to prevent distractions and misconduct. These precautions proved their worth several times over. Tensions ran high. Early on, the brother of one defendant was found trying to smuggle scissors with six-inch blades into the courtroom. He had previously been observed photographing the elevators. He was banned from the courthouse for the duration.

Waiting in the hallway to enter the courtroom one morning, I witnessed a young Somali girl in a hijab pounding on an older woman and cursing at maximum volume over and over, within 50 feet of the jury room. When the girl refused to desist, one of several plainclothes law-enforcement officers attending the trial took her to the floor and handcuffed her. And here I thought I’d seen it all. (The fight was between the mother of a cooperating defendant, who had pleaded guilty, and her daughter, a girlfriend of one of the defendants.)

Over three weeks, the jury heard a massive amount of evidence. Though I had followed the case closely, I wanted to take in the evidence with my own eyes and ears. I found it shocking. Defendants Mohamed Farah, Abdirahman Daud, and Guled Omar made up part of a larger group of young men from the Twin Cities who sought to leave the United States to join ISIS in Syria. When I say young, I mean high school and college age. One of their friends—Abdirahman Bashir—turned informant, while others made it to Syria without being detected or charged in the process. They are all first- or second-generation Somalis who appear to be talented and resourceful young men. They had social lives centered on local mosques. They are all observant Muslims and supplemented their education with Islamic studies. They wanted to live under the caliphate declared by ISIS. They yearned to wage jihad and to die as Islamic martyrs.

 

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No big headlines in the New York Slimes i suppoe and nothing from SLIME(TIME)magazine and the talking heads are too busy supporting the demac-RATS

Apx 1 million from muslim majority nations have been admitted to the USA during the Obama administration. More Than 90% Of Recent Middle Eastern Refugees On Food Stamps, Almost 70% On Cash Welfare, not exactly a benefit to America. A voting block for democrats and we will see many more communities with Muslims in politics. London is a good example.
https://muslimstatistics.wordpress.com/2015/09/14/usa-muslim-refugees-91-4-on-food-stamps-68-3-on-cash-welfare/
And they want free stuff to order, Hold the pickles hold the lettuce la la la
http://toprightnews.com/minnesota-muslims-demand-pork-free-halal-food-we

So out of the one million Muslim immigrants how many foreign born terrorists have we seen?
Out of the 15000 murders committed each year how many are from terrorists?
Isn’t an American mite likely to be killed by a thunderbolt from heaven rather than by a terrorist?

@John: With the administration scrubbing language there is no way to tell how many of these “refugees” or second generation home grown terrorist activities there really are 1000 current investigations and in all 50 states is all they will let us know.

So all we really can see is by looking at the past
Please tell us what percent of the people murdered in the USA have been killed by terrorists?
Also please tell me why we should do our utmost to magnify and advertise those results for them

@John: Except for that little spike on 9/11 the numbers are pretty small. The numbers would have been much smaller if the attacks hadn’t been in free fire zones. As long as the terrorists stick to free fire states/towns they’ll be ok….for a while as local law Enforcement devise a plan and decide, wether or not just because the ‘terrorist’ was screaming “Aloha Snack Bar” and waving the ISIS flag, really was a Islamic ‘terrorist’.