Washington – Now that the presidential inauguration is in the past, U.S. officials are reporting information about possible threats on the day by a Minnesota Somali man.
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U.S. intelligence was reportedly investigating a potential inauguration threat involving a Somali insurgent group. They believed one man to be connected with the missing Somali men from Minnesota.
Two million people on the Washington mall for the presidential inauguration.
Another 300,000 lined the parade route, as the president and first lady got of their armored limo.
But intelligence officials were nervous.
Bile Abdullahi may have been one of the reasons why.
Forty-eight hours before the inauguration, U.S. customs agents arrested the 32-year-old resident alien from Minnesota at the Canadian border near Detroit.
According to federal charges, Abdullahi was trying to sneak into Canada using his brother’s U.S. passport.
Both Bile Abdullahi and his brother are from Minneapolis, and until recently lived in the Cedar Riverside apartment complex.
Fox News has learned Abdullahi’s arrest was just part of the intelligence that led to a cryptic warning.
The FBI and Homeland Security were investigating recently received information about a potential threat on inauguration day.
The information was of limited specificity and uncertain credibility.
The threat reportedly involved Al Shabaab, an Al-Qaeda connected radical Muslim group, operating terror training camps in Somalia.
The same group that’s believed to have lured as many as a dozen missing Somali men from the Twin Cities to fight in the jihad back in their homeland.
The remains of one of those men, Shirwa Ahmed, were returned to Minnesota, after he became a suicide bomber in Somalia last October.
U.S. intelligence officials are investigating whether financial support for Al Shabab is coming from Minnesota and other cities with a large Somali population.
Abdullahi told officials he was going to Canada for a vacation, but intelligence officials fear it could’ve been some kind of dress rehearsal for leaving the country in a hurry.
those folk used to work in agriprocessors they where brought to replace the latino’s frankly bush believed that the latino’s must be raided since the 9/11 but instead left the door open for those refugees …. stil wonder who harmed economy ?
it abvousily wasnt such a big threat if they tell us now
Can anyone explain why obama still wants to deal with those animals ?
I thought the threats that were being investigated was from the Aryan/White groups. It was the black people threatening? Goes to show you that it has nothing to do with color.