Showing posts with label domestic terrorism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label domestic terrorism. Show all posts

Friday, March 13, 2009

Islamic Radicalism Is Becoming A Serious Issue In The U.S.!


The FBI is investigating whether or not Somali men,who are alleged to be Islamic extremists,pose a serious threat to the U.S.!They are concerned that the Somali-Americans who abruptly returned to Somalia might be plotting terror attacks here.Here's more from the Telegraph:

"The FBI is urgently examining links between the youths, who are all American citizens, and al-Shabaab, an Islamist group fighting in the country's long-running conflict.

Investigators are concentrating on two mosques, the Abubakar As-Saddique Islamic Centre in Minneapolis and the Dawah Institute in the neighbouring city of St Paul, where parents and guardians of the departed youths said their sons attended classes.

But the probe has now spread to Boston, San Diego, Seattle, Columbus, Ohio and Portland, Maine.

US law enforcement agencies are concerned young militants could return to the US to plot terror attacks, following a similar path to the British Pakistanis behind the London bombings in July 7, 2005 who made multiple visits to radical mosques in Pakistan.

The authorities began looking into the radicalisation of Somali youths after 27-year-old Shirwa Ahmed became the first known American suicide bomber in late October.

The Minneapolis student blew himself up in one of five co-ordinated bombings in northern Somalia orchestrated by al-Shabaab, whose former leader reportedly trained at terror camps in Afghanistan before being killed in an American air strike in May, 2008."(END OF EXCERPT)Read the whole article here.