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Officials are especially concerned that some of the men may be destined to return to the U.S. after they have received terrorist training.
The missing young men have been the focus of some attention since late October, when Shirwa Ahmed, a naturalized U.S. citizen, died in a suicide bombing in northern Somalia. Ahmed was a 1999 graduate of Minneapolis's Roosevelt High School.
The Twin Cities media have reported that a number of other young Somali men — estimates range from six to 40 — have disappeared from the area.
[The director of the Minneapolis-based Somali Justice Advocacy Center] said the Somali community has seen young men disappear in a number of countries across the world, including Canada, the Netherlands and Australia. Multiple sources within the Somali community have corroborated this account.
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A senior American intelligence source [adds] that some people from the Caribbean also appear to have left for Somalia. And not all of the people bound for training or jihad in Somalia have a Somali background, the source said.
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"They are very young, susceptible to any kind of indoctrination. All you need is one rogue imam who tells them the wrong things, and they are susceptible to that."
[The director of the Minneapolis-based Somali Justice Advocacy Center] said the Somali community has seen young men disappear in a number of countries across the world, including Canada, the Netherlands and Australia. Multiple sources within the Somali community have corroborated this account.
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A senior American intelligence source [adds] that some people from the Caribbean also appear to have left for Somalia. And not all of the people bound for training or jihad in Somalia have a Somali background, the source said.
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"They are very young, susceptible to any kind of indoctrination. All you need is one rogue imam who tells them the wrong things, and they are susceptible to that."
Unfortunate for the many good Somali people. I believe Somalis are here legally on Asylum.
This certainly doesn't fit the stereotype of Minnesotans as taciturn, non-confrontational, reserved, "nice" people...at ALL. Minnesotans slipping quietly out of their bucolic environment to travel halfway around the world to engage in violent Jihad ?. What's going on here?
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Very scary....
