ISLAM IN THE USA Somalia

NEW YEARS DAY EXPLOSION IN MINNEAPOLIS: SMACK DAB WHERE SOMALI TERRORISTS KNOWN TO CONGREGATE…….

 

Where there’s smoke there’s fire.

Baron Bodissey walks us through of what he’s found thus far.

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A Fiery Dawn in Minneapolis

At 8:16am CT this morning, a large explosion shook a three-story building in Minneapolis. The structure was quickly engulfed by fire, and some of the apartment-dwellers on the upper floors were forced to jump from their windows into subzero temperatures to escape the blaze. The top floors of the building eventually collapsed into the first floor. Fourteen people were hospitalized, and six of them are listed in critical condition.

The explosion occurred at 514 Cedar Avenue South in Minneapolis, in the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood at the western edge of the campus of the University of Minnesota, just across the river from the main campus and adjacent to the Bohemian flats area. A news article refers to the locale as an “ethnic community of predominantly Somali immigrants”. I’m told that the neighborhood is also known to law enforcement and intelligence officials as a place where Islamic terrorists congregate.

In one news story the building was described as a “community center” containing a grocery, a mosque, and apartments. Other reports said the mosque was “nearby”. The store on the corner is (or was) the “Otanga Grocery — Halal Meat & Spices”.

The proximity of a mosque to the incendiary event made my spider-sense tingle, so I took a quick look around the region, using Islamic Finder to check out the mosques and Islamic businesses in or near the 55454 zip code. There were a number of mosques and community centers, a variety of of businesses — including the Otanga Grocery, a.k.a. the “Cedar Halal Market” — several Islamic societies, a collection of doctors, and a construction firm.

A block or so north of the grocery is the “Masjid Shaafici” at 400 Cedar Avenue South. But the mosque described in the news story seemed almost certain to be the “Islamic Civic Society of America and Dar Al-Hijrah Mosque” at 504 Cedar Avenue South, the building immediately to the north of the one where the explosion occurred. For some reason Google Maps puts the mosque behind the building at #514, but it is actually next door.

More here at the GOV.

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  1. Farah Ahmed said his brother, his uncle and his friends own Otanga Grocery, which was consumed by the blaze.

    “(The grocery store) was a center of communication. It was a center of gathering,” Ahmed said at the news conference. “We came from East Africa and we made it. We did start from scratch and we will make it again, with your support.”

    Mubashir Jeilani, a nephew of three of the store’s owners who lives in an apartment nearby, said the grocery store was more than a business; it was a “connected market.”

    “People had tabs there,” the 18-year-old said. “People came there to socialize.”

    Abdisalam Adam, board chair of the Islamic Civic Society of America, which operates the mosque, said the fire didn’t damage the mosque, although it no longer has electricity and there was water damage, which Adam thinks was caused by fire hoses.
    TwinCities link

  2. The chief called the scene an active investigation that has early on ruled out any signs of an explosive device.

    DHS/FBI/ATF/a> are involved in investigating . . .a gas leak (see Duluth News Tribune update) despite spokeswoman for the natural gas utility @ CenterPoint Energy, Rebecca Virden,strongly discounting natural gas as a likely cause since CenterPoint “had no natural gas in the area” and no leaks were found or reported.
    If it were attributed to natural gas, Virden added, “the roof would come off, the walls would come out.”

    Virden offered that if there was a gas involved, “it could be a different type of gas, maybe propane.”

    https://www.startribune.com/local/minneapolis/238448181.html

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    Bonus notes:
    2012 report of incident at location for Otanga Grocery…..https://www.startribune.com/local/minneapolis/149626025.html

    Ex-Somali soldier is arrested in stabbing death of roommate
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    FR comment about area involved:

    “Down town minneapolis is walking distance from this area. The mall of america is a quick light rail ride… if they where planing some sort of attack this would be a good area to launch it from. Lots of friendlies around to keep an eye out for cops while building your bomb.”

    https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3107486/posts

    …..p.s. VladTepes is down?

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