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Sources Say Domestic Terrorist Arrested in Mobile Alabama

Posted:
27 Jan 2009 10:33 PM PST

Mobile police sources say they’ve arrested a man believed to be
a domestic terrorist. The investigation began January 5,
when a local synagogue was spray painted with Nazi markings.

Mobile Police are not making an official comment yet, but sources within the department say they got a very dangerous man off the streets, just in time.

Words of hate were spray-painted all over the Congregation Tree
of Life synagogue three weeks ago. They are markings that shocked

its congregation. Member Barbara Morgan couldn’t believe it.

“When we first came up to the building, it was ‘Oh my goodness,
who could do this?’”

Morgan said. “Who hates us so much that they would want to

deface the building?”

Sources within the Mobile Police Department say the culprit was
a domestic terrorist. They say the markings were not a joke.

Police sources tell us they when investigators arrested their man,
they found bombs inside his home, and during questioning, he
refused to talk.

Sources say his motives extended way beyond spray-painting Nazi markings.

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Inauguration Day Terror Threat A Ruse?

Posted: 27 Jan 2009 10:14 PM PST

Somali Man Arrested Crossing Canadian
Border

So was there a threat or not? According to one report, the inauguration day
terror threat was a ruse.

Inauguration Terror Threat Debunked

A potential terror threat just before last week’s presidential
inauguration turned out to be a ruse, a top military commander

said Tuesday.

However, Gen. Gene Renuart, chief of U.S. Northern Command,
warned that ongoing security concerns still face the Obama

administration during its early days.

Renuart, the military commander in charge of domestic defense,
said reports pointing to a possible threat from an East Africa terrorist

group were the result of claims by another faction and turned out to be untrue.

“It was more a function of two factions who didn’t like each
other setting the other up,” Renuart said.
He did not identify the other faction.

But Was It A Ruse?

Rusty at The Jawa Report highlights a few recent
“coincidences“

A) Homeland Security announces an non-specific threat
against President Obama from Somalia’s al Qaeda affiliate,

the al-Shebaab. Possibly a threat conveyed through
the internet?

B) The al Shebaab’s U.S. hosted website was ordered shut down

by the federal government, after over a year of operating openly.

C) 15 Somalians, some of them reported as American citizens and the rest

reported as living in the United States for some time, were recently arrested in
Somaliland

Coincidence? Maybe, but Rusty says his gut says no and the following story

from MyFox Twin Cities suggests there may be a few more dots to connect.

U.S. Officials: Minnesota Somali Man a Possible Threat on
Inauguration Day

With the inauguration of President Barack Obama in the past,
U.S. officials are reporting information about possible threats on the

day of the ceremony by a Minnesota Somali man.

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.

48 hours before the inauguration, U.S. customs agents arrested
the 32-year-old Bile Abdullahi, a 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.

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.

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 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.

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