By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Two New Jersey men were arrested late Saturday at JFK Airport as they prepared to head to Somalia to join up with the radical Islamic group Al Shabaab and kill American troops overseas, the FBI announced Sunday. Mahmood Alessa, 20, of North Bergen, N.J. and Carlos Eduardo Almonte, 24, of Elmwood…
The FBI has continually sited concerns over the past several months about the recruitment of Somali men in America who have gone overseas to fight with the terrorist group Al-Shabaab. The probe has also caused serious tension between the FBI and the Somali-American community. By JAMES WALSH, RICHARD MERYHEW and ALLIE SHAH Minneapolis Star Tribune…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Federal authorities in the Post 9/11 era have long worried about people training in al Qaeda camps and coming to the U.S. But the Associated Press reports a disturbing trend of Somalian American youth returning home to fight for an Islamist militia linked to al Qaeda. The latest, the wire service…
By Allan Lengel Ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON – The most security-intense inauguration of our times went off without apparent glitches Tuesday, even in wake of intelligence reports of a possible threat from an East Africa radical Islamic terrorist group. The Associated Press reported that law enforcement and intelligence officials got word that a Somalia-based group, al-Shabaab, might…
