In 2010, Mohamud had urged a friend of his traveling to Mecca to pray “that I will be a martyr in the highest chambers of paradise.” He planned to attack Americans “in their own element with their families celebrating the holidays.” And Christmas was the perfect time of the year to do it.

While fathers lifted up their children on their shoulders and music filled the air, Mohamud was smiling for a different reason.“You know what I like, what makes me happy?” he had told undercover agents. As American families were enjoying the moment, the Somali Muslim was picturing their bodies ripped to shreds by his bomb.“You know, what I like to see? Is when I see the enemy of Allah, then you know their bodies are torn everywhere.”

Choosing a spot next to a light rail terminal, Mohamud waited for a train to arrive in order to inflict the maximum number of casualties on the families arriving at the ceremony. But instead of murdering thousands of people at a Christmas tree lighting ceremony, he was arrested and dragged away while screaming, “Allahu Akbar.”

Somalis were disproportionately represented among the ranks of Islamic terrorists. The Battle of Mogadishu, in which Somali militias backed and trained by Al Qaeda terrorists, killed American soldiers and dragged their bodies through the streets, was one of the beginnings of the War on Terror. Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan, Al Qaeda’s Somalia boss, and the FBI’s third most wanted terrorist, had played a role in Al Qaeda’s 1988 bombings of American embassies in Africa.

There were at least four Somalis in Gitmo and numerous Somali terror plots in America. The Gitmo inmates included Guled Hassan Duran, a member of Al Qaeda, freed by Biden, whose official assessment stated that he had “personally surveyed Camp Lemonier”, a U.S. base in Africa, “for a potential truck bomb attack”, and had “participated in the planning of bombings” and “kidnapping Westerners in Somalia.”