Thursday, December 11, 2008

Are local Somalis leaving Minnesota to join terrorists in Somalia?

town hall meeting Somali Community in Minnesota
relatives of three missing teenagers held a news conference to air their concerns. They said they knew of at least 12 young men who had gone to Somalia over the past two years, including six who left Minneapolis on Nov. 4.
One local Somali man is believed to have committed a suicide bombing that killed more than 20 people in northern Somalia Oct. 29, according to a U.S. law enforcement official.
The official, who was not authorized to talk publicly about the case and spoke on condition of anonymity, confirmed to The Associated Press last month that the FBI and Justice Department were investigating. Abdirahman Ahmed, the spiritual leader of the mosque.
The imam and one of his youth coordinators were recently denied permission to fly to Saudi Arabia to take part in the annual Hajj, the Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca because, they are on the U.S. no-fly terrorist watch list
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