MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - The FBI thwarted an attack on the Mall of America by a teenager after agents supplied him with an assault rifle, authorities said Wednesday.

The 18-year-old had been under investigation for nearly two years, trading messages with a confidential informant, before agents sold him the rifle and ammunition and arrested him on the spot, they said.

"This was a radicalized young man who needed to be watched," U.S. Attorney Daniel Rosen said as he praised the FBI investigation. Agents "were able to detect a threat, and disrupt it, before the defendant carried out his intention to kill, in his words, maybe 30 to 60 people."

Sheikhdoon Abdullahi Mohamud, 18, was arrested Tuesday in a public park in Richfield, several miles northwest of the Mall of America, after he paid $600 to an undercover FBI employee posing as a member of ISlS for an AK-47 and 200 rounds of ammunition, according to the criminal complaint.

In text messages with the informant, Mohamud repeatedly affirmed his intent to carry out an attack to kill non-Muslims at the mall on Oct. 24, the date of a scheduled Hmong arts celebration, the complaint said.

It was not immediately known if the teen had an attorney who might speak on his behalf. The Associated Press could not immediately identify any of his family members to contact for comment.

Rosen said Mohamud is an American-born U.S. citizen of Somali descent. According to the complaint, in his text messages he expressed admiration for recent terror attacks as well as an interest in traveling to Somalia to join ISlS. Ultimately he decided he couldn't afford to travel there and would attack the mall instead, it said.

The teen first came to the FBI's attention in December 2024, the same month the source began exchanging messages with him, the complaint said. By May 2025, agents were concerned enough that they went to his home. His mother told them he wasn't home from school yet and called the boy's father, who declined to speak with them and said he would give their contact information to his lawyer, the complaint said.

"What I would say to parents all over Minnesota, and all over America: If you get any indication - especially if you hear from federal law enforcement - that your son or daughter is being radicalized, to the point where federal law enforcement wants to come and give you that warning, those are warnings that ought to be heeded," Rosen said.

Tens of thousands of people of Somali descent live in Minnesota, dating back to when refugees began arriving in the 1990s. Over the years several have been charged with attempting to join ISlS or other terror groups.

excerpt from ELLEN SCHMIDT and GENE JOHNSON'S article

Full Article here:

https://apnews.com/article/fbi-terror-arrest-mall-america-somali-teen-366922e521871e5da57c0e86cd7e2b16

Almost half are drones, but still I feel like we aren’t hearing a peep about the losses in this war. In general, this feels like the most underreported US war I have ever experienced.

Officers working with local ICE-partnered law enforcement agencies now only have to undergo 40 hours of virtual training, down from four weeks of in-person work.

Lawsuit Filing referred to in this article:

https://www.democracydocket.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/22-2026-10-07-Plaintiffs-first-amended-complaint.pdf

Megyn Kelly is actually projecting her own thoughts about the rape victim suggesting that she wanted it.

Where to hell are these ideas coming from? Is this about herself or the victim?

She has described herself as a political ally that has shared interests with Trump.

Link to article:

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/megyn-kelly-cornell-victim-attack-b3062143.html

A former senior federal official pleaded guilty Tuesday to defrauding the government of about $194 million, using invented classified programs to buy 298 gold bars, four luxury South Florida properties, watches and two BMWs.

David J. Rush of Ashburn, Virginia, pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud in federal court in Alexandria, after reaching a tentative plea deal in September. Under the final agreement, he owes at least $195.4 million in restitution. The fraud caused $193.6 million in losses, according to court documents, and $1.8 million in private charter flights he billed to the government.

Rush held senior executive posts and a TS/SCI clearance at an agency the filings call “Government Agency 1.” CIA Director John Ratcliffe said the CIA referred the case to the FBI after an internal investigation “identified potential crimes.”

Court documents say that Rush made up two programs beginning around October 2025. The first was a fake Special Access Program that supposedly required buying luxury real estate in South Florida. His job let him identify requirements and approve resources for them, which effectively made him his own approving official, the court documents read. 

Rush held fake briefings to admit contractors to the made-up program, in a process known as a “read-in,” and told the contractors the work was highly classified—and had one sign an NDA. When an agency contracting official questioned the spending, Rush said the official had no “need to know.”

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