Federal authorities investigating a group of Somali-Americans who left their homes last year to join a terrorist group overseas say they've found some of the missing men — on the popular online networking site Facebook.For several months the FBI has been investigating at least 20 Somali-American men from the Minneapolis area who traveled to war-torn Somalia, where some of them trained and fought with an Al-Qaeda-linked terrorist group known as al-Shabaab, according to counterterrorism officials.
The FBI investigation is looking into two key questions: Where are the missing men now? And how were they radicalized and recruited inside the Unites States? Facebook could help find the answers.
One law enforcement official told Fox News the FBI is "aware that there were some missing [Somali] community members on Facebook," but the official declined to discuss whether any "investigative activity has or hasn't been carried out." The official also declined to specify how many of the missing men were found to be on Facebook..more..http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,509439,00.html
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