Ilhan Omar still calls Somalia her country

American Thinker

By Thomas Lifson

Does Ilhan Omar represent the Fifth Congressional District of Minnesota?  That’s her official job.  But buried in the back of her mind, ready to spring out in unguarded or stressful moments, seems to be the notion that her real country is Somalia.

Streiff of Red State notes that there is a pattern of her speaking of Somalia, which she left at about the age of 8, as her country, not the nation from which she draws a substantial salary and whose constitution she is sworn to protect.

Chris Berg on Twitter spotted a Freudian slip that Omar quickly caught, when she returned to MSP Airport last week, to be greeted by 100 or so cheering supporters.  The fact that she corrected herself is significant, indicating that she realizes that she must present a false front to her ostensible constituents in Minnesota.

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LISTEN CLOSELY to @IlhanMN freudian slip here when she got back to MSP last night.
So does she identify as an American or a Somalian?
What say you? Plz share your Point of View

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And Streiff posts another example from 2015 in which, speaking to the “Revolution Somali Youth League,” she called Somalia “our nation.”

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Ilhan Omar addressing the Revolution Somali Youth League in 2015:

“You guys have the ability to impact where our nation is headed….”

“Not only HERE–in the United States–but even in OUR NATION BACK HOME.” #EnemyWithin

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So, when President Trump tweeted about going back, perhaps he referred to the back of her mind.

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Surprise! U.S. Has Secret Military Presence In Somalia

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Via NY Post:

WASHINGTON — US military advisers have secretly operated in Somalia since around 2007 and Washington plans to deepen its security assistance to help the country fend off threats from the Islamist militant group al Shabaab, US officials said.

The comments are the first detailed public acknowledgment of a US military presence in Somalia dating back to the administration of President George W. Bush and add to other signs of a deepening US commitment to Somalia’s government, which the Obama administration recognized last year.

The deployments, consisting of up to 120 troops on the ground, go beyond the Pentagon’s January announcement that it had sent a handful of advisers in October. That was seen at the time as the first assignment of US troops to Somalia since 1993, when two US helicopters were shot down and 18 American troops killed in the “Black Hawk Down” disaster.

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Obama to Congress: US Military Forces Are Engaged in Direct Action Against Suspected Terrorists in Yemen and Somalia

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(Security Clearance) — For the first time, the Obama administration has publicly stated that U.S. military forces are engaged in direct action against suspected terrorists in Yemen and Somalia.

U.S. expands its drone war into Somalia

WASHINGTON — The clandestine American military campaign to combat Al Qaeda’s  franchise in Yemen is expanding to fight the Islamist militancy in Somalia, as  new evidence indicates that insurgents in the two countries are forging closer  ties and possibly plotting attacks against the United States, American officials  say.

An American military drone aircraft attacked several Somalis in the militant  group the Shabab late last month, the officials said, killing at least one of  its midlevel operatives and wounding others.

The strike was carried out by the same Special Operations Command unit now  battling militants in Yemen, and it represented an intensification of an  American military campaign in a mostly lawless region where weak governments  have allowed groups with links to Al Qaeda to flourish.

Full story: U.S. expands its drone war into Somalia

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Two N.J. men arrested at JFK airport before boarding plane to join Islamist terrorist group, authorities say

NEWARK — Two New Jersey men intent on killing American troops were arrested Saturday as they boarded flights to link up with a virulent jihadist group in Somalia, authorities said.

The men, both North Jersey residents, were charged with conspiring to commit an act of international terrorism through a group tied to Osama bin Laden’s al Qaeda network, according to officials familiar with the details of the arrests.

Mohamed Hamoud Alessa, 20, of North Bergen, and Carlos Eduardo “Omar” Almonte, 24, of Elmwood Park were apprehended at John F. Kennedy International Airport in Queens before they could board separate flights to Egypt, where they were to start journeys to Somalia. The men were arrested by teams of state and federal law-enforcement agents who have been investigating the pair since October 2006, according to the officials, who requested anonymity because they are not authorized to discuss the operation publicly.