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On the recordDecember 8, 2025
If there was a linkage in the money that they have stolen going to terrorism, then that is a failure of the FBI and our court system in not figuring that out.
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Ilhan Omar
Democratic · Minnesota
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Omar discusses the alleged link between fraud and terrorism in the Somali community.

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