FBI Looks For Clues To Missing Somali Youths

by Dina Temple-Raston Listen Now [4 min 21 sec]

Morning Edition, May 21, 2009 · Twenty years ago, Somali refugees arrived in America and landed in what might seem like an unlikely place: Minneapolis. Today, the Twin Cities are home to the largest Somali community in America. And it is a community in turmoil.That's because in the past year and a half, several dozen young men from Minneapolis have boarded planes to Africa and are thought to have joined up with a terrorist group in Somalia.When Somalis first arrived in Minneapolis in the 1990s, they were fresh from refugee camps, trying to escape a civil war in their own country. The Lutheran Church sponsored the first 1,000 families and sent them to Minnesota...more..http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=104183328&ft=1&f=1004