Somali grocery vidicated: The Seattle Times is reporting the dropping of a case by the USDA against the Maka Mini Market in the city. This Somali grocery had its license to accept food stamps revoked this winter. Earlier the store had been raided by the FBI because it was adjacent to a wire-transfer service that was suspected of tranferring money to terrorists.
It seems now that the aggressive moves against the grocery were not justified, that it has no links to terror. While this is undoubtedly traumatic for the owners, employees and customers of the store, we should expect to see more of this over the next few years until terror networks are significantly destroyed, and government officials cannot be faulted too much for their actions in the light of suspicions about the transfer service. However, they can be faulted for refusing to compensate Maka for confiscated supplies and lost business. The public will tolerate mistakes, but only if justice is ultimately done for those wronged.