Minneapolis Jihadists

Andrew McCarthy is not the least bit surprised that Somali jihadists from Minneapolis are fighting with the Islamic State. He wrote a whole chapter of his 2010 book The Grand Jihad about Somalis in America, and he reproduces that chapter here.

The palpable fear of American and Canadian investigators is that the young men who leave North America with a jihadist fervor will return as trained, lethally capable terrorists, committed to carrying out terrorist strikes against the West. As David Harris, the former chief of strategic planning for the Canadian Security Intelligence Service starkly puts it, “it is just a matter of time before someone who went abroad comes back to North America in an effort to carry out an attack.”