U.S. Somalis being trained by insurgents,Missing Somalis investigation leads to 14 people charged‎

Federal authorities yesterday unsealed terrorism-related charges against eight men, accusing them of recruiting at least 20 young Somali Americans from Minnesota to join an extremist Islamic insurgency in Somalia.
The newly named suspects make up one of the largest suspected terrorist networks in the United States since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, analysts said. Assistant Attorney General David Kris said the government continues to investigate the alleged recruitment, and sources indicated that FBI and grand jury inquiries are active in San Diego, Boston and Columbus, Ohio, into the disappearance abroad of dozens of Muslim Americans since 2007.
The charges cap a year-long FBI investigation into the departures, most of them among men of Somali descent in their teens and 20s, to join al-Shabaab, an extremist group with ties to al-Qaida.
Al-Shabaab opposes Somalia's weak but internationally supported government and seeks instead a fundamentalist Islamic state under sharia law. It has since attacked Ethiopian and African Union troops, targeted neighboring countries, pledged allegiance to al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden last year and used al-Qaida operatives to train American recruits, U.S. officials said. The State Department listed al-Shabaab as a terrorist group last year.Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09328/1015882-84.stm#ixzz0XlHn9RYj
Missing Somalis investigation leads to 14 people charged‎