Unraveling of Homegrown Minnesota Story
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July 15th, 2009
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This is a follow up post to the story of the Somali boys who had integrated into American society and then returned to Somalia in order to fight. What must the parents of these boys be thinking? Their parents fled the country in order to give them a better life. Now they choose to return and likely become martyrs. This is a story and even a trend that we must keep a close eye on.
Now CNN reports that two Minnesota men have been indicted by a federal grand jury for recruiting Somali immigrants to fight with Islamic insurgents.
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This is a follow up post to the story of the Somali boys who had integrated into American society and then returned to Somalia in order to fight. What must the parents of these boys be thinking? Their parents fled the country in order to give them a better life. Now they choose to return and likely become martyrs. This is a story and even a trend that we must keep a close eye on.
Now CNN reports that two Minnesota men have been indicted by a federal grand jury for recruiting Somali immigrants to fight with Islamic insurgents.
Salah Osman Ahmed and Abdifatah Yusuf Isse are charged with one count each of providing material support to terrorists and conspiracy to kill, kidnap, maim or injure people overseas, the indictment states. The recruiting effort took place between September 2007 and December 2008, according to the charges.”The FBI has been investigating what appears to be a massive recruiting effort by the al Qaeda-linked Somali insurgent group al-Shabaab in immigrant communities in the United States. More than a dozen young men of Somali descent have disappeared from the Minneapolis area in recent months, and at least three have been killed in Somalia, community leaders have said.
