The Justice Department has unsealed federal indictments charging 14 people with terror related charges in Minnesota, Alabama, and California linking them to the radical Islamist al-Shabab organization in Somalia.
The radical Islamist group al-Shabab with links to Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda terrorist network who were responsible for the terror attack in Kampala, Uganda last month killing an estimated 74 people who were watching the World Cup soccer final.
The federal indictments unsealed Thursday accuse the 14 individuals with providing money, personnel and services to al-Shabab. The accused were indicted Thursday of raising money for al-Shabab through door-to-door solicitations and teleconferences in Somali communities in Minneapolis, Rochester and other locations in the United States and Canada.
In recent years, al-Shabab has attempted to recruit dozens of young Somali Americans whose families fled to the United States to escape the fighting that has gripped their homeland, a failed state on the Horn of Africa. One of those recruits, a Somali American from Seattle, reportedly drove a truck bomb into an AMISOM base in Mogadishu, the Somali capital, in September 2009, killing 21 peacekeepers and himself.
Just because we have a new administration, just because we are focused on the economy, doesn't mean that terrorism has gone away. We have to be vigilant on protecting this country, the first time we let our guard down we will pay a price for it.
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