A former taxi driver from northern Virginia is now on the list of the world’s most wanted terrorists.
Liban Haji Mohamed, 29, was born in Somalia but became a naturalized citizen of the United States. The FBI says that Liban is a recruiter for the al-Shabab terrorist network in Somalia.
Liban is the older brother of Gulet Mohamed, who has been fighting the government for four years over his placement on the no-fly list. The family claims that Liban was harassed by the FBI after advocating for his younger brother and that he’s gone into hiding because he wanted to avoid harassment.
The charges against Liban Mohamed including providing material support to both Al Qaeda and al-Shabab. The FBI says it’s likely he left the U.S. for Africa in July 2012 but prior to that had been a taxi driver in Fairfax County, Virginia.
“It is important for us to locate Mohamed because he has knowledge of the Washington, D.C., area’s infrastructure such as shopping areas, Metro, airports, and government buildings,” said Carl Ghattas, special agent in charge of the Counterterrorism Division at the FBI’s Washington Field Office. “This makes him an asset to his terrorist associates who might plot attacks on U.S. soil.”
The FBI also said that he was a “close associate” of Zachary Cheeser, a northern Virginia man who was sentenced to 25 years in prison for trying to join al-Shabab in 2011 along with make threats against the creators of the cartoon South Park for a perceived insult to prophet Muhammad.
Liban’s family claims the release from the FBI is nothing more than an attempt to influence the judge in the case Gulet Mohamed has filed.
The U.S. has confirmed the head of an Islamist group in Somalia has been killed s part of a U.S. drone strike.
Ahmed Abdi Godane, who had run the group Al-Shabab during terror attacks in Somalia along with attacks on Christian villages and churches in surrounding countries, died when a drone strike took out a facility used for terrorist training. Ten other terrorists died in the attack.
President Obama hailed the successful strike as an example of his administration’s plan to fight terrorism.
“Godane’s removal is a major symbolic and operational loss to the largest Al Qaeda affiliate in Africa and reflects years of painstaking work by our intelligence, military and law enforcement professionals,” the White House said in a statement.
Al-Shabab is most notorious for the assault on Kenya’s Westgate Mall that killed 68 people and wounded 200.
San Francisco University officials are trying to downplay a report that one of their professors used taxpayer dollars to fly to the middle east and meet with various terrorist groups.
A non-profit group discovered during a request through the California Public Records Act that Professor Rabab Abdulhadi received more than $7,000 to fly to Jordan and the West Bank. The professor had initially been scheduled to speak at a conference at American University in Lebanon but was removed from the speaking list. She still took the trip.
Professor Abdulhadi then met with Leila Khaled, a convicted terrorist hijacker and member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a terror group responsible for almost 160 bombings, assaults and assassinations. She also met with Sheikh Raed Salah, who funds the terrorist group Hamas and served a two-year terror related prison term.
The documents say the meetings with terrorists were set before the University provided the funding for the trip.
Professor Abdulhadi has spoken at various anti-Israeli events around the world.
Professor Abdulhadi did not return calls to Fox News.
Police in India announced the arrest of one of their most wanted terrorists.
Yasin Bhatkal, the leader of the Indian Mujahideen terror group, was caught close to the border with Nepal according to government officials. His group is responsible for a series of bomb attacks including a coordinated attack in Mumbai in July 2011 that killed 27 and injured dozens. Continue reading →
Iraqi officials say hundreds of inmates have escaped from two Iraqi prisons after gunmen stormed the complexes.
Abu Ghraib west of Baghdad and Taji to the north were both assaulted late Sunday night. Continue reading →
Al-Qaeda has released a statement that the group’s #2 leader in Yemen has been killed in a U.S. drone strike.
Saeed al-Shihri had survived multiple drone strikes including one last year that the Yemeni government said had killed him. The new report is the first time at Al-Qaeda has confirmed the death of al-Shihri. Continue reading →
A musician from Norway who has connections to the mass murder Anders Breivik has been arrested in France on “suspicion he was preparing a major terrorist act.”
Kristian “Varg” Vikernes was called a “threat to society” by the French Interior Ministry. Vikernes is reportedly connected to neo-Nazis and received a manifesto from Breivik, who killed 77 in a bomb and gun attack on Oslo, Norway and a nearby island in July 2011. Continue reading →
The Islamist leader of Bangladesh has been convicted on multiple charges related to the country’s 1971 war with Pakistan.
Ghulam Azam, 90, was sentenced to 90 years in prison for convictions related to mass killings and mass rapes during the war. Azam was leader of the Islamist Jamaat-e-Islami party from 1969 to 2000. Continue reading →
A British Columbia couple has been arrested on terrorism charges after attempting a Boston Marathon-style terrorist attack on Canada Day.
John Stewart Nuttall and Amanda Marie Korody were inspired by al-Qaeda ideology but were “self-radicalized” according to RCMP Assistant Commissioner James Malizia. He insisted the plot was only a domestic attack with no international cooperation. Continue reading →
Islamic terrorists attacked the Afghanistan Presidential Palace, killing three guards and wounding one. All terrorists were killed in the assault.
The Taliban said the attack was aimed at the Presidential Palace and the Ariana Hotel, home of the CIA’s Afghanistan headquarters. Continue reading →