Somali
'refugee' linked to San Bernardino terror attack, Also played key role in Garland, Texas, attack,
by Leo Hohmann, 12/6/15, WND
A young man who came to Minnesota as a “refugee”
from Somalia has been linked to Syed Farook, the shooter who, along with his
jihadist wife, killed 14 Americans in San Bernardino less than a week ago.
Fox News contributor Rod
Wheeler provided a key piece of information about the case, linking the San Bernardino
shooters to Mohamed Hassan, a known terrorist recruiter who has been on the FBI
radar screen for at least seven years.
What Fox did not report, however, is how Hassan
ended up in the United States. His
family came into the U.S. as refugees from Somalia. The Somali refugee program
has been going on for decades and has produced some of America’s most feared
terrorists, even as the Syrian refugee program grabs most of the headlines.
As WND reported in May, Hassan also helped radicalize Elton Simpson,
one of the two jihadists who tried to storm into a Prophet Muhammad drawing contest
in Garland, Texas, on May 4. Their plans to kill the participants and behead
free-speech activist Pamela Geller were foiled by an off-duty cop who engaged
them in a gun battle before they could enter the auditorium where Geller was
holding the art contest.
“One of the two shooters in last week’s
terrorist attack on a free-speech event in Garland, Texas, Elton Simpson, was
reportedly radicalized over the Internet by former Somali refugee Mohammad
Hassan,” WND reported on May 11.
“The radical Islamist had lived in Minnesota
before traveling to the Middle East to join ISIS, but he continues to recruit
new ISIS fighters in America, largely through social media. Hassan used the
Twitter handle ‘Miski.’” It was “Miski” who reportedly called for the Garland
attack 10 days prior to it being carried out by Simpson and his Pakistani
accomplice.
He tweeted: “The brothers from the Charlie Hebdo attack
did their part. It’s time for the brothers in the #us to do their part.” That
tweet was followed by a link to Geller’s event in Garland, Texas.
Hassan left Minnesota for Somalia seven years
ago to fight for Al Shabaab, an al-Qaida-linked terrorist organization in
Somalia. He later joined up with ISIS but holds an American passport and could
return to the U.S. at any time.
He is known as a
prolific online recruiter for jihadist terror groups. He grew up in Minneapolis
and attended Roosevelt High School. It was during his senior year of high
school that Hassan left the U.S. While in Somalia he joined a group of jihadist
fighters from Minnesota, one of whom was his cousin, according to a report by Somalia Agenda. Law enforcement
conducting the raid at Syed Farook’s apartment in Redlands, California, found
evidence tying Syed Farook to Hassan, according to Wheeler’s report for Fox.
Hasson had lived in the Minneapolis-St. Paul
area of Minnesota, which is home to the largest Somali refugee community in the
United States. He is one of at least 50 Somali refugees or sons of refugees who
have left the U.S. since 2007 to join the ranks of ISIS, al-Shabab or other
foreign terrorist groups.
These Somali refugees have American passports
and could return to the U.S. as battle-hardened terrorists. Yet, the U.S. government under President
Barack Obama continues to flood the U.S. with 500 to 700 new Somali refugees
every month — 6,000 to 8,000 a year. A total of about 110,000 Somali refugees
have been resettled in the U.S. since 1991.
“With all the talk in
Congress and the media about Syrian refugees, we don’t hear anything about
Somali refugees and they have one of the worst records of not assimilating and
being accomplices to terrorist acts,” said Ann Corcoran, refugee watchdog who
blogs for Refugee
Resettlement Watch.
Corcoran said virtually all Somalis in the
United States are refugees or children of refugees, although a few dozen enter
illegally each year through the U.S.-Mexico border.
According to Department of Homeland Security data, 688 Somalis entered the U.S. illegally as
asylum seekers between 2004 and 2013. WND reported on a busload of Somalis being transported from the southern border in
May that was caught on video by a curious resident in Victorville, California.
Hassan’s connection to the San Bernardino attack
should be no surprise, Corcoran said, and surely was not a surprise to the FBI.
“This is no surprise for all of us following the Somali refugee terror
activities here in the U.S. and abroad,” she said. “So let’s stop talking about
Syrians for a minute and remember that we bring in at least 500 Somalis a month
to live in your towns at this very minute.”
U.S. State Department brings in 85,000 foreign
refugees a year, permanently resettling them in 180 U.S. cities and towns with
little or no input from the local leaders and no notice given to the local
populations. About 3 million refugees, almost all of them selected by the
United Nations, have been resettled in the U.S. since 1990, about half of them
coming from Muslim-dominated countries with active jihadist movements.
Most of the Somali
refugees arrive in U.S. cities directly from the world’s largest refugee camp
in Kenya, not far from the border with Somalia. This U.N. Dadaab refugee camp
is known to be infiltrated by Somali terrorists, and the president of Kenya,
Uhuru Kenyatta, threatened to shut it down in April, as reported by the Washington Post.
The Kenyan government said it had evidence to
suggest that the terror attack that killed 147 Christians at a Kenyan college
in April was launched from the Dadaab refugee camp.
Now the FBI is confirming that the Somali
refugee-turned-American terrorist has been in communication over the last month
or so with Syed Farook, who gunned down 14 Americans as they celebrated an
office Christmas party last week in San Bernardino.
Hassan now apparently has the Garland, Texas,
attack in May, and the San Bernardino attack last week, as notches on his belt.
http://www.wnd.com/2015/12/somali-refugee-linked-to-san-bernardino-terror-attack/
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