Somalis, FBI in other U.S. cities on alert for terrorist recruiting

While Minneapolis is the core of an investigation, leaders elsewhere want to keep youth from being drawn to violence.
COLUMBUS, OHIO - In a corner office of a strip mall here, Somali leaders are working on a mission that has its roots in a string of sudden disappearances more than 700 miles away.
While federal agents and Somali leaders in the Twin Cities struggle to find answers to whether up to 20 young men may have returned to Somalia to fight or receive terrorist training, leaders in Columbus are scrambling to prevent anything similar from happening here.
They are preaching against terror in the mosques, monitoring their sons after school and sharing information with the FBI.
"No one has disappeared," said Ahmed Hosh, who works with Somali youths in Columbus. "But if those who did the recruiting were individuals talking to someone alone, the scary thing is it could happen here."
The Twin Cities area has been at the center of the federal investigation ever since a 27-year-old from Minneapolis blew himself up in a suicide attack in Somalia last fall. But other cities with large Somali populations are being scrutinized, too: Boston, Seattle, San Diego and Columbus, which has the second-largest population of Somali refugees in the United States behind Minneapolis -- an estimated 40,000 to 50,000 people...more..http://www.startribune.com/local/43231252.html