Reporting from Washington -- There is no evidence that radicalized Somali American youths who have disappeared over the last two years are being trained abroad to attack the United States, ????intelligence and law enforcement officials told members of a Senate panel Wednesday.Although worrisome, their apparent recruitment by the Shabab , a militant group linked to Al Qaeda, is more likely to signify that they are motivated to help their country fight against Ethiopians, who invaded the country in 2006.
"We do not have a credible body of reporting right now that leads us to believe that these American recruits are being trained and instructed to come back to the U.S. for terrorist acts," said Andrew Liepman, deputy director of intelligence at the National Counterterrorism Center. "Yet obviously we remain concerned about that, and watchful."Liepman and others testified at a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing held to look into the disappearance of 12 to 20 young Somali Americans who are believed to be with the militant group...more..http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-terror12-2009mar12,0,5040682.story?track=rss
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