Federal authorities are expected to announce charges against eight more people today in a long-running investigation into how perhaps dozens of young men from the Minneapolis area were recruited to join an Al Qaeda-linked group in Somalia. It will be the most significant and public move to date in the case. Charges against the eight people will be announced at a joint FBI-U.S. Attorney's Office press ... read more
November 23, 2009
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October 14, 2009 11:39 PM
A Somali man on the U.S. government's terrorist watchlist was stopped last week by a police officer outside Las Vegas, but the officer had no legal authority to detain the man so he was sent on his way, multiple law enforcement sources told FOX News. On Oct. 6, about 10 miles north of Las Vegas, a Nevada Highway Patrol officer pulled over a rental car that ... read more
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September 22, 2009 10:11 PM
The most recognizable and outspoken voice of terrorist propaganda in war-torn Somalia has surfaced for the first time since being uncovered by FOX News as an American from Alabama. Abu Mansour al-Amriki — or Omar Hammami as he was known — appears in a video posted online Tuesday by the group al-Shabaab, which has ties to Al Qaeda and was labeled a ... read more
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August 4, 2009 6:31 PM
Federal authorities are advising police and law enforcement partners across the country that a terrorism plot uncovered in Australia -- involving Australian citizens who were allegedly recruited to join an al Qaeda-linked group in Somalia -- has no connection to a similar trend in the United States and does not indicate any heightened threat to the United States. In a ... read more
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July 13, 2009 6:26 PM
Federal authorities in Minneapolis have unsealed an indictment in the long-running investigation of Somali-Americans who were recruited to join an Al Qaeda-linked group in Somalia. The indictment was filed in February against Salah Osman Ahmed and Abdifatah Yusuf Isse, but it is only now becoming public. The indictment says Ahmed and others traveled to Somalia "so ... read more
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July 13, 2009 5:33 PM
Federal authorities in Minneapolis have unsealed an indictment in the long-running investigation of Somali-Americans who were recruited to join an Al Qaeda-linked group in Somalia. The indictment was filed in February against Salah Osman Ahmed and Abdifatah Yusuf Isse, but it is only now becoming public. The indictment says Ahmed and others traveled to Somalia "so ... read more
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July 11, 2009 5:34 PM
Another Minnesota man recruited to join an Al Qaeda-linked group in Somalia has been killed in the war-torn African country, according to a spokesman for the man’s family. Family ... read more
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October 30, 2009 3:53 PM
Feds Watch For Smuggling Of Somali Fighters
Federal authorities have openly expressed concern that Americans who were recruited to join an Al Qaeda-linked group in Somalia could easily return to the United States thanks to their U.S. passports. But privately law enforcement officials are also worried about another possible scenario: Fighters from the group could be smuggled into the United States to launch ... read more