A former terror suspect who lived in Minnesota was acutally kicked out of a mosque in Bloomington, MN. Amir Meshal is originally from New Jersey, but back in 2007 he was detained and interrogated by the FBI in Kenya after escaping from Somalia. He wound up in Minnesota and eventually at a mosque in Bloomington, which kicked him out this summer.

In June, the center called police and had Meshal, 31, removed and ticketed for trespassing. According to the police report, the mosque said "we have concerns about Meshal interacting with our youth."

The local Fox affiliate reports that some of the Americans who have gone to Syria to join ISIS had occasionally attended Al-Farooq Mosque, including a 19-year old St. Paul girl who left for Syria two weeks ago.

The director of Al-Farooq said a volunteer alerted them that Meshal was talking in terms of jihad and a radical Islamist ideology. The director said they had no patience for that, called police, and had him removed. What they don't understand is why the FBI hasn't arrested him, or why other mosques in the Twin Cities haven't banned him as well.

Seven years ago, the feds arrested him in Kenya after escaping from Somalia. He admits to being at a terror training camp, but says he wasn't a terrorist.

In a lawsuit, filed on his behalf by the ACLU, Meshal says he went to Somalia to enrich his studying of Islam. He was interrogated more than 30 times by two FBI agents, threatened with torture, and shuffled between jails in Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia before being brought back to the U.S. three months later and released without charges.

The lawsuit was dismissed two months ago, but the case is well-documented on the internet, leading many in the Somali community to believe he might actually be working as an informant for the FBI or CIA, or some kind of double agent.

According to the ACLU's lawsuit, the FBI actually offered Meshal the opportunity to serve as a government informant. In exchange, they would take his name off the no fly list. Because he's on that list, he's not able to visit his mother and extended family who live in Egypt.

Currently it is unknown where Meshal actually is.


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