Senators waking up to threat of al Shabaab

“Radicalized individuals trained in terrorist tactics and in possession of American passports can clearly pose a threat to the security of our country,” Susan Collins(Republican Maine)

Andrew Liepman, deputy director for intelligence at the counterterrorism center, tried to reassure that the missing Somalis from Minnesota do not represent a threat to the US at least not yet.

"They are going to Somalia to fight for their homeland, not to join al Qaeda's jihad against the United States, so far."

So al Shabaab has no interest to attack the US? What about al Shabaab's threat against Obama's inauguration, and their threat to establish shariah law from Alaska and Chile to South Africa, Japan, Russia to Solomon Islands and all the way to Iceland?

Keep your eyes open for any arrests by the FBI in the Minneapolis area. Some al Shabaab recruiters may be going down. Reuters

WASHINGTON, March 11 (Reuters) - The FBI is investigating how young Somali-Americans were drawn to fight with an al Qaeda-linked group in Somalia, but there is no sign they are being trained as domestic U.S. terrorists, authorities told Congress on Wednesday.

"Tens" of Somali-Americans, primarily from Minneapolis, have returned to Somalia to fight with the militant Islamist al Shabaab group that controls much of the country, officials of the FBI and the National Counterterrorism Center testified before the Senate Homeland Security committee.

Reports of the young men vanishing from home in recent years and turning up in Somalia have fanned concerns that al Qaeda, which has suspected leadership ties to Al Shabaab, could be training them to return to the United States under their U.S. passports and conduct attacks.[...]

The officials said they could not rule out that some Somali-American fighters could eventually return to attack, especially if they go on to Pakistan for advanced training.

Committee Chairman Joseph Lieberman said he understood there may be arrests of suspected recruiters as part of a federal probe.

"There are ongoing investigations," Mudd said. "It's a significant concern to us." He declined further comment.