A one-time Muslim janitor at a Minneapolis mosque was found guilty of conspiring to help an al-Qaeda-affiliated Islamic terrorist group, al-Shabaab, recruit young Minnesota Muslim men for a holy war in their native Somalia.
Star Tribune (H/T Rob E) A federal jury in Minneapolis deliberated about 8 1/2 hours before convicting Mahamud Said Omar, 46, in a case that provided the clearest picture to date of a worldwide investigation into the recruiting of at least 20 young men to fight in Somalia with Al-Shabab, a U.S.-designated terror group.
Omar, of Minneapolis, rocked gently in his seat and studied the jurors dispassionately as the verdict was read. Guilty on: conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists; providing material support to terrorists; conspiracy to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization, namely, the Islamist group Al-Shabab; providing material support to Al-Shabab.
Each of those charges carries a sentence of up to 15 years in prison. Omar swallowed hard in advance of the last verdict, which carries a maximum penalty of life in prison: guilty of conspiring to kill or maim people.
Omar, dressed in a black sports coat and blue pinstriped shirt, shook it off quickly. As deputies led him from the courtroom, he turned to his family members, smiled broadly and raised both hands over his head, as if declaring victory.
A Somali group with ties to Al Qaeda has recruited and radicalized more than 40 American Muslims to join their cause in war-ravaged Somalia, according to a report by a US Congressional committee.
“We’re going to go lick our wounds,” said Jon Hopeman, one of Omar’s three attorneys. He said Omar would appeal. The government withheld considerable information it had developed under Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act wiretaps, “so we’re going to look at that,” Hopeman said.
Omar’s family members declined to comment, referring questions to community activist Omar Jamal. “They were not expecting this,” he said. “They are a little bit shocked.”
Harakat al-Shabab al-Mujahideen’s new video, “And Incite the Believers,” features fighters from abroad, mostly of Somali descent.
Jihadology The video clearly states in the intro that it is a recruiting video for those abroad. It features a number of foreigners & diaspora. Among those quoted in the video are Saleh ‘Ali Saleh al-Nabhani (killed in U.S. military strike Sep. 14, 2009) and Abu Yahya al-Libi. The foreign fighters hail from the U.S., Sweden, Britain, Tanzania, Sudan, Kenya, and Pakistan.
More about al-Shabaab’s recruitment video
what they were actually thinking he was innocent? he should be quietly executed.
We need the death penalty again….prison is too nice for the bastards .
Send those bastards back, dont waste time and tax money on that garbage.
Just think, if Obama wins..he will import even more of this silme. God help us.
Brenda: Exactly right! If we allow the election of this closest muslim again, we will be choking our country and ourselves with hordes of the same kind of filth that Obama is forcing on us labeled as “Refugees” Refugees from what? From the corrupt crap they allowed and preticipated in in Somalia? The same kind of crap they are bringing to us?
As a people, they have no business living in America and being supported by our tax dollars. We need to resist the importation of large pods of Somalis the same way we are coming to resist KKKair and their propaganda. We must not let Obama win this election! He is a muslim tool.
And that a-hole Ellison wants to bring more of these savages to Minnesota to leach off the tax payers.
As a Minnesotan, my complaint is that he was not more successful in getting greater numbers to return to Somalia.
Petard, like all of them? LOL
Actually, that would have been excellent – and if the other Muzzies had gone with them to boot, it would have been even better!! O Weh, that it hasn’t so happened…
Meanwhile, the way the MSM TRAITORS keep on portraying Obama as the winner of the second debate (though it seems at the minimum a draw if not an outright Romney victory) and the man to support has become extra-nauseating!!!! I sure hope that Obama doesn’t cancel the election: once it has taken place and he THEN tries to make trouble, at least then he’ll have less backing for any nefarious plans he most certainly has up both of his sleeves…
The more I read about what Islam wants it is preferable to stop all Mosques in America. France is having problems.. for us,.no more students or immigration from Islam countries…they are born to kill…no rehab in our lifetimes.
I live in the people’s state of Minnesota and have herd little of this case in the local news.
Minnesota has allowed several thousands of these monsters into our state.
We even have a Muslim Congressman, Keith Ellison. How tolerant or stupid is that?
No chance of voting this mutt out of office with all of the bed wetting, pillow biting left wing idiots here.
Many Minnesotans are too nice and to tolerant of those who want to overthrow the United States or want to kill us because we don’t follow the child molesting, murdering profit of the peace loving Muslims.
Thank God the Republicans at the time saw fit to allow Minnesotans to carry weapons concealed and
open carry.
Let’s measure the gun violence rate between the entire state of Minnesota and the city of Chicago where all citizens are not allowed to carry guns. (Except the criminals)
It is them or us, in the end, let’s make sure it is us and not them.
Stay alert, stay well armed, and stay alive.
uh huh.
Foxmuldar, you are sooo right. Ellison had his radio debate last night (his seat is unfortunately, very safe) where he called his Repub. challenger (Maj. Chris Fields, USMC (Ret.) a “low life scumbag”. (something, imho, Keith would know all about.)
This is what they do. When are “authorities” going to learn from history and the Koran that this is their beliefs, moderate or radical, when they experience a (using a Christian term) revival, they are all fired up to pillage and steal, kill and destroy.
This must be the son that Ellison never had, but wished he had. He is just a bad as obama. Take this guy out and blow his arse up, take ellison with him..Peace to all non-muslims who agree.
….they were not expecting this, they were a little bit, shocked, ooooh pleeeeeease, get real, soak a skinny in a bath of all things the koran, and you expected what was it again? It never surprises me when situations such as this, convicted as a terrorist, giving material support and or aid to know enemies of a Free Republic and it’s citizens, they always tell us of “how sweet this young man was, he was a leader, a brother from the hood, islam, never would have expected this from him”, etc. etc., whatever, why waste hard earned tax-payers resources on willful blindness, and limited at this time because of their friend of islam, obama’s bin lyn’ to everyone, has literally raped this Nation of our wealth to promote the same, liars, theives, killers of innocence, and such, but time and again they are surprised, BULLSHIT, lieing bastards. My father taught me as a youngster, you’ll go to hell just as fast for lieing as you will for commiting murder, just don’t do it and remain safe and away from pits of hell, call it all good.The only thing that surprises me to this day, is there seems to no will power to off these monsters one minute after conviction.Trust me, that is a message they surely will learn from.
Semper Fi
he should count himself lucky.
The new penalty for such here is death by slow-hanging.
Council ratified it by majority vote via Intranet. In keeping with the Zero-Tolerance for terrorist Laws. If you’re a known terrorist, and commit such action in the City jurisdiction…your past record is fully admissable.
The view here is that terrorists deserve the same mercy and compassion they give to their victims.
No fast neck-breaking execution….
…you hang, struggle and strangle. Very specific to islamic terrorism.
There’s talk of firing squads with pig’s-blood hollowpoints if the islamists get worse, aimed at gut-level to ensure the ‘Lesson’ is impressed on the islamists.
Yes, we’re getting as nasty as is needed to make certain the islamists understand that we will NOT ‘kow’ to them…
There’s even talk of execution-by-knife….belly-stabbing…enough-said.
We’ve had enough of islamist terror here, and if they want to try spreading islam by terror, they will have to pay a VERY steep price.