Monday, May 11, 2015

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Feds field questions in Mpls. from Somali-American community in ISIL-related case

 MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) Unprecedented security is expected Tuesday when four of six Minnesota terror suspects arrested last month appear in federal court in Minneapolis.At the last hearing in St. Paul, more ...
U.S. Attorney Andy Luger, center, and Richard Thornton, the FBI's special agent in charge of the Minneapolis office, right, were with Sadik Warfa, left, during a town hall meeting with members of the Somali community about the recent charges against six men accused of trying to join ISIL at the Phillips Community Center on Saturday. DAVID JOLES – DML - STAR TRIBUNE.

STAR TRIBUNE or the first time since announcing charges against six Minneapolis men accused of conspiring to join overseas terrorists, U.S. Attorney Andy Luger fielded questions Saturday from Somali community ...
U.S. Attorney Andrew Luger, right, and FBI special agent in charge Richard Thornton announced a criminal complaint charging six Minnesota men with conspiracy and attempt to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization, April 20, 2015. Jeffrey Thompson | MPR News

MPR News n the first such meeting since six Twin Cities men were charged with trying to join ISIS in Syria, Minnesota’s U.S. attorney and top FBI official will answer ...
At right, Fartun Weli, of Isuroon, prepared for a U seminar on female genital cutting. Hannah Aho, left, also works for the health nonprofit.

STAR TRIBUNE omalis in Minnesota are leading the fight here and abroad against a practice that some say is a human rights violation. Minnesota Somalis are setting out to end ...
An X-ray image shows the eight-year-old boy hiding in a suitcase (AFP Photo)

AFP Madrid olice found an eight-year-old Ivorian boy hidden in a suitcase that was smuggled across the border into Spanish territory in north Africa, an official said on Friday.A 19-year-old woman ...
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 A court in Oslo convicted three young Norwegian citizens on Friday for their ties to the brutal extremist group that calls itself The Islamic State (IS). The men were sentenced ...
Teacher Ahmed Amin is counseling Somali-American Abdullahi Yusuf as part of a ‘deradicalization’ program that is viewed as an experiment. PHOTO: T.C. WORLEY FOR THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

 WALL STREET JOURNAL MINNEAPOLIS he path of reform for Abdullahi Yusuf, a U.S. teenager who tried to become a radical Islamic soldier, passes through writings of Martin Luther King Jr., readings ...
Sharif Said, 21, was gunned down on Tremblay Road on the weekend. His family insists he was not involved with gangs.

OTTAWA CITIZEN  man accused of shooting 21-year-old Sharif Said dead and the man police allege drove the getaway car both appeared in court Thursday to face charges in the weekend ...
Asylum seekers at the Joutseno reception centre in eastern Finland early last year. Image: Tommi Parkkinen / Yle

YLE ue partly to a surge in Somali asylum seekers, this year is on track to be the second-busiest ever for applications. The Finnish Immigration Service warns that waiting times ...
Amin Amey in northern Sweden. Photograph: Ulrika Andersson.

The Guardian he way Amin Amey tells it, the romance began with a headache. He had gone to buy painkillers in the market of Ifo, one of the five camps ...
Ismahan Isse

Columbus Dispatch f the Columbus Police Division doesn’t change its policy banning head scarves for female Muslim officers, Ismahan Isse might have a couple of options outside Ohio. The Edmonton ...
Confederation of Somali Community in Minnesota

Star Tribune  Somali organization is opening a massive community center in Minneapolis, aimed at bringing a new level of workforce development, recreational activities and cultural programming to the growing East ...
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CBS Minnesota - MINNEAPOLIS  — ocal Somali leaders met in Minneapolis Saturday evening, saying they have to find a way together to strengthen their community and stop terror recruiting.They talked about ...
Somali community MINNEAPOLIS

Star Tribune he recent arrest of six Somali-American young men, suspected of trying to join an overseas terror organization, has triggered a flood of emotions in Minnesota’s Somali community. Fittingly, ...
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The Telegraph A Somali rapist who poses a “high risk” to children and adults in Britain has overturned a bid to deport him because he could face ill-treatment if returned ...
Kadra Mohamed, one of the 12 Metro Transit officers sworn in on Thursday in St. Paul, saluted the U.S. flag as she officially became a police officer. Photo: ELIZABETH FLORES

Star Tribune  diverse class of 12 full-time Metro Transit Police Department officers was sworn in Thursday at the Union Depot in St. Paul, including the state’s first female Somali-American officer. ...
Dutch legislator Geert Wilders

Washington Post heir letter is here, and it calls for excluding Wilders based on his harsh criticism of Islam and of Muslim immigration: We write to raise our deep concern ...
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AP MINNEAPOLIS  Somali organization has signed an agreement to purchase a 24,000-square-foot-building for a future Somali community center in Minneapolis.The Confederation of Somali Community in Minnesota announced the purchase agreement for ...
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ABC 5 ormer Senator Norm Coleman faces criticism over a Star Tribune editorial that a Minneapolis City Council member calls “racist” and “hateful.” Council member Abdi Warsame said the title of ...
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Columbus Dispatch smahan Isse has wanted to be a police officer for years. She prepared herself by earning an associate degree in criminal justice and entered the Columbus police academy ...

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