Relatives Of Missing Minnesota Somalia Americans Use Ties To Homeland In Search

http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/197047.php ^ | By Stable Hand at April 1, 2009 11:02 AM | n/a

[Cindy]

April 01, 2009

Relatives Of Missing Minnesota Somalia Americans Use Ties To Homeland In Search

Via Terror Free Somalia

Interesting tidbit:

"Actually, it's very tough [for] law-enforcement agencies, especially the FBI, to go back and get information from Somalia," Ahmed(Osman Ahmed, a distant uncle of missing 17-year-old Burhan Hassan) said. "But as Somalis, we know each other, we have a tribe over there, we have friends, we are connected to the Somali government because we supported it. So we are trying in any way we can to get information."

Yes, they would have a in so to speak.

Further reading of the article from the link Terror Free Somalia provided leads to this:

[Cindy]

Additional links:

http://terrorfreesomalia.blogspot.com/2009/03/relatives-of-missing-somali-men-use.html
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/03/30/somali_search/
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/features/2009/03/02_somali_alshabaab/

http://terrorfreesomalia.blogspot.com/2009/03/lshabaab-owned-radio-station-opened-in.html
http://terrorfreesomalia.blogspot.com/2009/03/al-shabaab-command-structure-jubbland.html
http://www.cfr.org/publication/18650/somalias_islamic_insurgency.html

[Cindy]

As an aside, more interesting reading:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2155483/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2147450/posts