startribune.com - 11/27/2008
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Federal authorities are investigating whether young Somali men who have disappeared in the Twin Cities metro area in recent months have been recruited to fight for terrorist groups in strife-torn Somalia. A source familiar with the case confirmed Tuesday that there is a high-level investigation ...
foxnews.com - 12/4/2008
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foxnews.com —
Thursday, December 04, 2008 By Daveed Gartenstein-Ross Dozens
of young Somali men in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area...
have disappeared in recent months, causing community members and U.S. intelligence officials to fear that they are joining jihadist ...
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Jihad Recruiting Effort May Explain Missing Somalis in ...
myfoxtwincities.com - 12/4/2008
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myfoxtwincities.com —
BURNSVILLE , Minn. (FOX 9) One of the
five men suspected to be a suicide bomber who...
killed himself and 29 others last October in Somalia , was buried Wednesday at a Burnsville Cemetery. Video: Funeral for Suspected Suicide Bomber FOX 9 has learned DNA ...
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One of Five Suspected Somali Suicide Bomber Laid to Rest
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Minneapolis Homegrown Terrorist Travels To Somalia To Blow Himself Up For False God - With Video
Pat Dollard | Young Americans —
... and al-Qa’ida could give Somali extremists much needed funding while al-Qaeda could then claim to be re-establishing its operations based in East Africa. That’s a base that was severely disrupted about two years ago when Ethiopia moved into Somalia.”
Missing Twin Cities Somalis, terror ties probed
One Twin Cities immigrant who returned home became a suicide bomber, a source says.
By JAMES WALSH, LORA PABST and PAM LOUWAGIE, Star Tribune
Federal authorities are investigating whether young Somali men who have ...
Willful blindness, from Minnesota to Mumbai
Power Line —
... The FBI is also busy with other pursuits related to Ahmed, noted in the story quoted by McCarthy. Federal authorities are investigating whether other young Somali men who have disappeared in the Twin Cities metro area in recent months have been recruited to fight for terrorist groups in Somalia. (The Star Tribune story is here.) That's one theory. ...
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