Young 'lured' to fight in Somalia, leader says

The President of Somalia yesterday condemned the "luring" of young Somali-Canadians to his country to fight in an Islamist insurgency that is attempting to topple his government. "We have heard that some young Somalis went missing in Canada and are presumed to be on their way to Somalia or are already here," President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed said. "It is exploitation against these youngsters, against their parents and against the Somali people to smuggle the youngsters whose understanding of their religion and the country is limited and whose parents escaped with them from Somalia in the first place to give them a better life." His comments at a news conference in Mogadishu came as the RCMP and Canadian Security Intelligence Service are investigating six Somali-Canadians who have left Toronto in recent weeks without telling their friends or parents.Read more: http://www.nationalpost.com/news/canada/story.html?id=2248850#ixzz0XWKxJsSz