Here’s a look at one of the worst aspects of the rampant Somali fraud in Minnesota. Namely, Somalis now living in the U.S. are sending bundles of cash to al Shabaab, a Somalia-based terrorist outfit affiliated with al Qaeda.
Here, Fox News 9 in Minneapolis-St. Paul reports on these deadly transactions. Shipments are being sent on a virtual weekly basis via plane from the Minneapolis Airport. Hawalas, a traditional, clan-based system of Somali money lenders. typically get involved in dispersing the money. Funds stolen from childcare services, Medicaid and other federal programs are being channeled across Somalia, with heavy payments to the southern Somali district where al-Shababb is dominant.
The report suggests these payments have occurred since 2013, so they actually began when Barack Obama was still President. Glenn Kerns, a former detective with the Seattle Police Force, says hundreds of millions of dollars have been diverted. “The amount of money was staggering,” Kerns said.
Much of it is intended for relatives of those Somalis living in the United States. But al-Shabaab takes its cut of the payments, so this is an Islamic terrorist group that we’re essentially funding. Here’s more in a report from The Gateway Pundit.
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