Somali Civil War
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Nov 2, 2026
Nov 2 · 1 Mention
Andrea KayeHOST
On pages 20 and 21 of As Laura Powell Calls It, Omar's Tale of Woe, she recounts that in Somalia as a child, she lied about her family and her clan, saying it was needful.
Andrea KayeHOST
She also, in her memoir, talked about the fact that the Somali War started when she was eight, which I think shows that she would have been born in 1981, which meant that she was 19 at the time that she sought naturalization under her father.
Andrea KayeHOST
She was an adult.
Andrea KayeHOST
Right.
GraysonHOST
The background if you don't know Ilhan Omar, she came to the US as a Somali refugee around age 12 and became a citizen in 2000.
GraysonHOST
She fled Somalia Civil War at eight.
GraysonHOST
She spent four years in a Kenyan refugee camp when she came here.
GraysonHOST
There were some things with her citizenship where she probably married her brother.
Matt MorseHOST
Shocking new report coming out today, suggesting new photos coming out today, suggesting that Ilhan Omar's family was actually living the lavish life in Russia while she claimed they were refugees in Kenya.
Matt MorseHOST
What? According to Ilhan Omar's official narrative, after fleeing Somalia in 1991, two years into the Somalian Civil War, she and her family spent four years living in a refugee camp in Kenya before ultimately immigrating to the United States of America as a refugee in 1995.
Matt MorseHOST
Problematically for Ilhan Omar, however, newly discovered photo evidence suggests that Ilhan Omar's family was actually living in Moscow, Russia during the time period that they were supposedly living in a refugee camp in Kenya.
Matt MorseHOST
meaning they perhaps never even lived in a refugee camp, that they were not refugees in Kenya.
Matt MorseHOST
But here at The Morse Report, we are keeping track of it.
Matt MorseHOST
She reports that she was born in Mogadishu, Somalia in 1982.
Matt MorseHOST
She fled to a refugee camp in Kenya two years into the Somalian Civil War in 1991 at the age of eight.
Matt MorseHOST
She lived in Kenya for four years as a refugee.
Andrew ArthurGUEST
Now, however, there is a question as to whether or not she actually was under the age of 18 at the time that that happened.
Andrew ArthurGUEST
Of course, she wrote a biography where she talked about the beginning of the Somali Civil War, which happened in 1991.
Andrew ArthurGUEST
And she indicated that she was nine years old at the time, which would suggest that she may be older than her October the 4th, 1982 birth date.
Andrew ArthurGUEST
And, you know, there are various other questions.
Dave RubinHOST
The Post also reported that in the spring of 2019, following Omar's election to the House of Representatives, her staff pressed the Minnesota Legislative Reference Library the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, and Wikipedia to record her birth as happening in 1982 rather than 1981.
Dave RubinHOST
The previous fall, Omar's campaign had told the Associated Press that she didn't have a birth certificate due to her family's displacement by the Somalia Civil War.
Dave RubinHOST
The FBI and DHS had the evidence in 2016.
Dave RubinHOST
The Biden US Attorney shut it down in 2021 on statute of limitations grounds.
Adrian ElrodPANELIST
This is definitely Trump weaponizing DOJ to go after someone who he does not agree with, to try to race bait, to try to gin up his base because of her ethnicity.
Adrian ElrodPANELIST
Let's also remember Why Ilhan Omar is in the United States in the first place? She fled Somalia as a refugee during the Somalia Civil War.
Adrian ElrodPANELIST
She came to the United States.
Adrian ElrodPANELIST
She became a naturalized citizen at the age of 17.
Brad BennettHOST
The BBC article went further, describing Cabana as one of hundreds of Somalians who have jumped the U.S.-Mexican border wall.
Brad BennettHOST
So you had all of these ones that were brought here by our country during the Somali Civil War.
Brad BennettHOST
And then in addition to that, you had all the other ones that said, hey, all these Somalis are living up here in Minnesota and there are a lot of them are getting rich, stealing from the government.
Brad BennettHOST
We got to get it into this.
Gabrielle CucciaGUEST
This is at the age of 12 with her sister and her father.
Gabrielle CucciaGUEST
She had fleed the Somali Civil War, and then she spent time in a refugee camp in Kenya.
Gabrielle CucciaGUEST
And so I do have a bone to pick, not only with the Democrats, but just the institutions of our United States government as well, right? Because the general process for bringing refugees into the United States is highly rigorous.
Gabrielle CucciaGUEST
I don't know if people truly understand how multilayered that is, right? You don't just have the FBI.
Ben ShapiroSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Omar's dad was a high-ranking military colonel under the Marxist military dictatorship of Sayyad Barre, which runs counter to his refugee status under U.S. law as well.
Ben ShapiroSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
In 1991, Ilhan Omar and her family relocated to Kenya during the Somali Civil War.
Ben ShapiroSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And then in 95, she and her family received refugee status and came to the United States, first to Arlington, Virginia, and then to Minneapolis.
Ben ShapiroSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And again, it is probable that Omar did not even enter under her true name.
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