By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Less than two months after the FBI added a Washington-area cabbie to the bureau’s “Most Wanted Terrorist ” list, the Somali-born U.S. citizen was arrested and taken into custody of the Somali government, Reuters reports. Liban Haji Mohamed, 29, was added to the list for allegedly providing support to the Somali-based…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI office deserves kudos for doing the right thing. The Minneapolis Star Tribune reports that the FBI directed agents in Minneapolis and five other U.S. cities in 2009 to use community outreach with Somali groups as cover to gather intelligence on terrorist recruiting efforts and on individuals who would likely…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI’s Minneapolis office is investigating claims that two agents pressured a Somali man to work as an informant in the Somali community, the Pioneer Press reports. The Council on American-Islamic Relations, a civil rights group, requested the probe last week. The man claims the agents were “intimidating and threatening” him in…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Two Somali pirates involved in the hijacking of the S/V Quest, which resulted in the death of four Americans, were sentenced Monday in Norfolk, Va. fed court to life in prison. Muhidin Salad Omar, 30, and Mahdi Jama Mohamed, who is about 24, admitted in the plea agreements that they participated in…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The pirate biz may have provided a good life for two Somalian men. Now it’s simply providing life — in prison that is. Ali Abdi Mohamed, 30, and Burhan Abdirahman Yusuf, 31, were both sentenced Monday in federal court in Norfolk, Va. to life in prison for their roles in the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The modern day pirates continue to baffle the world in their ability to commandeer large ships and get away with it. Still, not all have gone free. On Thursday, Jama Idle Ibrahim, a/k/a Jaamac Ciidle, was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Washington to 25 years in prison for his role…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The feds have indicted 13 Somalis and one Yemeni pirate in Norfolk, Va., in the tragic hijacking of a 54-foot yacht off the Somali coast that resulted in the death of four U.S. citizens last month following a five-day standoff with American authorities, the FBI said. “This is a horrific crime,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Ralph Boelter, head of the Minneapolis FBI, who headed up a large scale probe into counterterrorism involving local Somalis heading overseas to fight with a terrorist organization, is headed east to Washington to become the agency’s deputy assistant director in charge of counterterrorism, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported. Boelter told the…
