From My FoxTwin Cities:
Inauguration Threat
U.S. intelligence was reportedly investigating a potential inauguration threat involving a Somali insurgent group. They believed one man to be connected with the missing Somali men from Minnesota.
48 hours before the inauguration, US Customs officials arrested Bile Abdullahi, a resident alien from Minnesota at the Canadian border near Detroit.
According to federal charges, Abdullahi was trying to sneak into Canada using his brother's passport.
Both Bile Abdullahi and his brother are from Minneapolis, and until recently lived in the Cedar Riverside apartment complex. Abdullahi told officials he was going to Canada for a vacation, but intelligence officials fear it could've been some kind of dress rehearsal for leaving the country in a hurry.
Fox News has learned Abdullahi's arrest was just part of the intelligence that led to a cryptic warning. The FBI and Homeland Security were investigating information about a potential threat on inauguration day. The information was of limited specificity and uncertain credibility.
The threat reportedly involved Al Shabaab, an Al-Qaeda connected radical Muslim group, operating terror training camps in Somalia. Al Shabaab is the same group that's believed to have lured as many as a dozen missing Somali men from the Twin Cities to fight in the jihad back in their homeland. The remains of one of those men, Shirwa Ahmed, were returned to Minnesota, after he became a suicide bomber in Somalia last October.
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