<span id=”intelliTXT” name=”intelliTxt”><p><strong> <font size=”2″ style=”font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;”>Many of the
Somali-American men who were recruited to join an Al Qaeda-linked
terrorist group overseas have returned to the United States, according
to a source familiar with an FBI investigation into the matter — but
the FBI still has not revealed publicly if it is pursuing arrests in
the case.</font></strong></p>
<p style=”font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;”><font size=”2″>"Some
of the guys who were missing aren’t missing anymore," the source said.
"Some of them got blown up and some of them came back, and some of them
are still there [in Somalia."</font></p>
<p style=”font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;”><font size=”2″>For several
months the FBI has been investigating at least 20 Somali-American men
from the Minneapolis area who traveled to war-torn Somalia, where some
of them trained and fought with an Al Qaeda-linked terrorist group
known as al-Shabaab, according to counterterrorism officials.</font></p></span>
<font size=”2″ style=”font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;”><span id=”intelliTXT” name=”intelliTxt”><p>Asked to characterize how
many of those men are now back on American soil, the source would only
say that "several" have returned. Federal authorities believe the men
went to Somalia to join al-Shabaab, which has been warring with the
moderate Somali government since 2006.</p>
<p>Usama
bin Laden weighed in Thursday on the battle. In an audiotape posted
online, the Al Qaeda leader urged Somalis to fight against the Somali
government, insisting, "The war which has been taking place on your
soil these past years is a war between Islam and the international
crusade."</p></span></font><span id=”intelliTXT” name=”intelliTxt”><p style=”font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;”><font size=”2″>At a Senate hearing in
Washington last week, counterterrorism officials said there is no
intelligence to indicate that Somali-Americans who traveled to Somalia
are planning attacks inside the United States.</font></p>
<p style=”font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;”><font size=”2″>“We
do not have a credible body of reporting right now to lead us to
believe that these American recruits are being trained and instructed
to come back to the United States for terrorist attacks,” said Philip
Mudd, a top-ranking official with the FBI’s National Security Branch.
“Yet, obviously, we remain concerned about that, and watchful for it.”</font></p>
<p style=”font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;”><font size=”2″>Minneapolis
has become the hub — and the media focus — of the FBI’s investigation.
But the FBI is casting a wide and growing net across the country, even
in places hundreds of miles away from Minneapolis.</font></p>
<p style=”font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;”><font size=”2″>Testimony
from counterterrorism officials and others at the Senate hearing last
week suggested that the FBI investigation is active in Columbus, Ohio;
Cincinnati, Ohio; Boston; Seattle; and San Diego.</font></p><p><font size=”2″ style=”font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;”><a href=”http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,509839,00.html”>Continue…</a></font><br /></p></span>