War and Conflict

Film Screening and Book Reception with Iraqi Authors and Filmmakers

Keith Ellison wants Congress to reform U.S. drone policy

Minnesota Congressman Keith Ellison thinks it's about time Congress takes a hard look at policies surrounding U.S. drone strikes, Barack Obama's choice weapon against terrorists outside of Iraq and Afghanistan since he took office. SEE ALSO: Keith Ellison: GOP fiscal cliff offer makes path to deal ... More >>

The Terrorists Next Door

National security laws have transformed America's most vulnerable immigrants into terrorists

Walker's Spoonbridge sculpture defaced with Kony graffiti [PHOTO]

Sometime over the weekend, someone decided to inscribe a politically themed message upon one of Minneapolis's most iconic structures. The word "Kony" has been spray-painted on the Walker Art Center's "Spoonbridge and Cherry" sculpture. Joseph Kony is the head of the Lord's Resistance Army, a Ugandan ... More >>

Attorney may challenge use of Predator drone during NoDak arrest

​Last summer, American law enforcement used an unmanned drone to apprehend a group of alleged bad guys.This didn't happen in Afghanistan or Iraq -- it happened in North Dakota and represents the first time U.S. law enforcement has used a drone to make an arrest.Now, Fargo-based Bruce Quick, the at ... More >>

FBI wants DNA proof of third Minnesota Somali suicide bomber

This is the first message which has encouraged Somali-Americans to declare war at home.​Abdisalan Ali is thought to be the young man from Minneapolis who killed himself and at least 10 others in a Mogadishu suicide attack. But some who've listened to the recording which is supposedly Ali's last vi ... More >>

Somali suicide bomber from Minneapolis: "Do Jihad in America"

Somali's civil war claims another Minnesotan.​A suicide bomber who blew himself up in Mogadishu yesterday in an attack that killed 10 had traveled to Somalia from Minneapolis in 2008.Abdisalan Ali had emigrated to Minnesota with his family when he was 2 years old, but was among 20 local youths who ... More >>

Amina Ali, Hawo Hassan found guilty on terrorism charges

amina Ali was convicted on 13 felony counts.​Amina Ali and Hawo Hassan, the two Rochester women accused of providing material support to Somali terrorist group al-Shabaab, have been found guilty on all counts by a Minneapolis jury.Hassan was convicted on three counts, while the jury found Ali ... More >>

Amina Ali, accused supporter of Somali terrorists, complains of bad treatment in jail

​Amina Ali knew she was supporting al-Shabaab; that much is certain. What her trial will determine is what she knew about al-Shabaab.These revelations came during yesterday's opening statements in the case of Ali and Hawo Hassan, two Rochester women on trial in U.S. District Court in St. ... More >>

Amina Ali arrested in court for refusing to stand for judge

​Amina Farah Ali might be facing trial for giving material support to terrorist groups. But that doesn't mean she's going to stand up if she doesn't feel like it.Ali, the 35-year-old woman accused of funneling money to Somali militant group al-Shabaab, was arrested in court this morning after refu ... More >>

Minnesota Department of Health confirms rare and dangerous case of anthrax

WikipediaRecovery from these evil looking bacterium can take months. ​Officials from the FBI and the Minnesota Department of Health have been working together to figure out how a patient in a local hospital came down with a case of extremely rare inhalation anthrax. Due to patient confidentiality ... More >>

Farah Mohamed Beledi confirmed by FBI as Somali suicide bomber

Farah Mohamed Beledi fled the Twin Cities in 2009​The FBI is confirming that 27-year-old Farah Mohamed Beledi of St. Paul was one of two men who died in a Mogadishu suicide attack last week. He fled Minnesota in 2009 to join the al-Shabaab terrorist group. Beledi was one of 13 Twin Cities me ... More >>

Council on American-Islamic Relations, Ellison, celebrate Osama Bin Laden's death

​Heading off what we assume will be the inevitable attacks from right field about American Muslims not rejoicing in a sufficiently patriotic manner over the death of Osama bin Laden, the Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations issued a formal statement today from the gro ... More >>

Keith Ellison breaks down in tears at Muslim hearings [VIDEO]

Ellison breaks down.​Rep. Keith Ellison spent weeks deriding the congressional hearings that opened today on radical Muslims, orchestrated by Rep. Peter King of New York, as little more than an attempt to spread fear and hatred of a religious minority. When it came his turn to testify and de ... More >>

Bob Fletcher Terrorism Briefs

Ramsey County sheriff releases records to City Pages

Abdi Mahdi Hussein charged with terrorism for aiding Al-Shabaab

Somalis are waging war on themselves with money sent from here​Three more Somalis have been charged with funneling money to the Somali terrorist group Al-Shabaab. One of the men was arrested Monday in Minneapolis. Abdi Mahdi Hussein, who works for a remittance company, is accused of conspiring wi ... More >>

Shirwa Ahmed, Somali jihadist from Twin Cities, in new terrorism report

U.S. officials consider Al-Shabab in Somalia a terrorist threat, even here​Just in time for the ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, a bipartisan think tank has issued a report on how terrorism has changed since 2001. And the Somali men who disappeared from the Twin Cities to play a prominen ... More >>

Betty McCollum seeks resolution for Peter Erlinder's release

McCollum reminds the Rwandan government of U.S. generosity in foreign aid​Will this help? Rep. Betty McCollum has introduced, and Keith Ellison has cosponsored, a U.S. House resolution calling on the Rwandan government to release accused genocide denier William Mitchell law professor Peter Erl ... More >>

Peter Erlinder reportedly attempted suicide in Rwandan jail cell

Peter Erlinder is accused of denying the Rwandan genocide​The New York Times is reporting that William Mitchell College law professor Peter Erlinder attempted suicide in his Rwandan jail cell, where he is being held for allegedly denying that country's genocide. Police said they found Erlinde ... More >>

Dead Al-Qaida suspect had ties to missing Minn. Somalis

U.S. Special Forces killed a man Monday in Somalia suspected of being a link between al-Qaida in Pakistan and the militia targeted for recruiting Minnesota Somalis to return to fight.

Minneapolis Somalis testifying before Congress

As the FBI continues to investigate Islamist extremists recruiting young Somali men in the Twin Cities, two Minneapolis Somalis are scheduled to testify before Congress.

Guantanamo's final days

America prepares to shutter the infamous prison camp and Jihad looms

Will Potter

Newsweek: Were Minnesota Somalis recruited for jihad?

U.S. House passes resolution in support of Israel, two Minn. reps vote 'present'

Confrontation between police and protesters in downtown St. Paul

Activists: new RNC police policies too watered down

Voice to Vision

Darfur: Documenting Genocide

Camp Darfur

Darfur: Documenting a Genocide

Everything We Know About Security Is Wrong

So says counterterrorism contrarian Bruce Schneier. And the transportation security administration is listening.

The "Liberal" Strib Strikes Again

One Day in September

A toned-down Oliver Stone finds uplift in 'World Trade Center'

Airport '01

'United 93' flies the unfriendly skies

Minneapolis FBI: See no Evil

Bin Laden's Game

Most officials thought last month's Osama bin Laden tape was no big deal— maybe even a gesture of weakness. Author and ex-CIA analyst Michael Scheuer, who founded the Agency's bin Laden unit 10 years ago, thinks they're dead wrong.

Sgt. Briggs's War

Bob Briggs got a head full of shrapnel in Iraq. Then he came home to more wars: to regain the use of his half-paralyzed body, and to get the U.S. government to pay for his medical care.

Veterans Day 2005: Iraq by the numbers

U.S. forces fight Zombie army in Iraq: How many "top lieutenants" can a man have?

Is the Bring Them Home Now tour bus running out of gas?

Iraq a hotbed for terrorists

9/11-Another Minnesota Connection?

Nancy Hanlon says she met and talked with one of the 9/11 hijackers in a Rochester, Minnesota bar just weeks before the attack. Is it true? There's no telling for sure. Is her story plausible? Yes.

Bring 'em On!

The Bush administration's top 40 lies about war and terrorism

The Other War

The Bush administration & the end of civil liberties

The Two Towers

Spike Lee's '25th Hour' rings in the new New York

Blaming the Somalis

Are local immigrants unwittingly funding Al Qaeda? The numbers just don't add up.

Terrorism Today

A primer on avoiding yesterday's war

Paint It Black

Absence/Presence searches for the aesthetics of genocide; Thomas Hart Benton hits the road

Alliant Takes Heat on Mines