Mustafa Ali was 17 when he and his brother Yusuf posed for this picture. Within months, Mustafa had flown to Somalia without explanation.Six months have passed since Mustafa Ali vanished from St. Paul. His family is left to wonder how he got to Somalia and why
His unmade bed is pushed tight against the far wall of the bedroom, the rumpled blankets untouched since the day he disappeared. His shirts and jeans still hang from a nearby closet, and books are stacked or scattered about the floor as he left them. "Nothing has changed," his father says, his voice cracking as he looks around the room where his son once slept. "Nothing has changed since Mustafa left." Six months have passed since 18-year-old Mustafa Ali slipped out of his family's third-floor apartment on St. Paul's East Side and never came back. Not a day passes without the teenager's loved ones being haunted by the mystery of why he left or what has become of him. Was he, along with his best friend and more than a half-dozen other Somali teenagers and young men from the Twin Cities, recruited by local imams or Islamic extremists to return to war-torn Somalia to fight in the nation's civil war? Or was Mustafa simply an impressionable teenager acting on a long-expressed desire to return to his homeland..more..http://www.startribune.com/local/stpaul/39239722.html
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