Grand Jury Convenes in FBI Terror Case Against Somali-Americans in Minneapolis, Sources Say

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I am not sure why so many of the families and friends of terrorists are shocked when they are interviewed about their relationships.

If Somalia is so freaking great, go back and stay. If you don't want to go back, then you have to adapt to your new country and customs. You don't have to give up all your old habits and customs, just the ones that are negative or don't mesh with where you are trying to live now. If you don't like our country, then get out. Go home or make this your new home.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,508484,00.html

Federal authorities are looking to bring terror-related charges against one or more Somali-Americans from the Minneapolis area, and witnesses to the case have been subpoenaed to testify before a federal grand jury, according to a Muslim leader in the area and a woman who said she testified before the grand jury this morning.

For several months the FBI has been investigating about a dozen Somali-American men who disappeared from their homes in the Minneapolis area late last year and may have joined terrorist groups overseas. One of the men, 27-year-old Shirwa Ahmed, later blew himself up in Somalia. The FBI recently called him the first U.S. citizen to carry out a suicide bombing, and FBI Director Mueller said he was "radicalized in his hometown in Minnesota."

The FBI has interviewed at least 50 people in the Somali community and subpoenaed at least 10 people to testify before a grand jury in Minneapolis, according to Farhan Hurre, the director of the Abubakar As-Saddique Islamic Center in St. Paul, one of the largest mosques in the Twin Cities. He said most of those subpoenaed are students at the University of Minnesota. At least two of the men still missing were students at the University of Minnesota.

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