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Minn. mom says missing son, 20, killed in Somalia
AP via Breitbart ^ | July 12, 2009 | PATRICK CONDON
Posted on July 12, 2009 3:34:12 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
he mother of a 20-year-old Somali man missing from Minneapolis says her son has been killed in Somalia. Abayte Ahmed (ah-BYE’-tee ah-med) said Sunday through an interpreter that she and her husband identified their son, Jamal Bana (BAH’-nuh), in a photo showing a dead body in Somalia. Bana’s father saw the photo Saturday while viewing online news.
Somali activists believe more than a dozen young men have gone missing from the Minneapolis area during the last couple years—recruited, they say, by radical elements in Somalia.
Bana disappeared in November. Ahmed says after seeing the photo, she and her husband spoke by phone to someone in Somalia and have no doubts their son was killed. She wouldn’t say with whom they spoke.
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Minneapolis Somali man killed in homeland (#3)
StarTribune ^ | 7/11/09 | RICHARD MERYHEW and ALLIE SHAH
Posted on July 11, 2009 8:09:05 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
A third Minneapolis Somali man has been killed in his homeland, community leaders said Saturday, his family having learned his fate by stumbling onto a website that contained photos of his bloody corpse.
While the body was identified only as that of a “foreign jihadist” or “fighter,” a closeup of the face left Jamal Bana’s mother with no doubt. The young man had been shot through the temple.
FBI officials said Saturday they could not confirm the news.
Abdirizak Bihi, a community activist who visited with Bana’s mother at her south Minneapolis home Saturday, said that Bana’s family learned of his death early Saturday while searching the web for news on the fighting in Mogadishu.
“They kept scanning the website for Somali news and there it was,” he said. “What made it worse is that the mom saw the dead body.”
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July 12, 2009
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“Somalia:Government displays the body of foreign fighter -Correction”
SNIPPET:”MOGADISHU(Mareeg)—Somali government has displayed the body of somalia man thoutht to be “a foreign fighter” in Villa Somalia, the presidential palace on Saturday.
A spokesman for the military of the Somali government, Farhan Asanyo, showed reporters the body of a white man which he described as a fighter from Afghanistan. MAREEG MEDIA has learn that is man is
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the body of the alshabaab fighter that the governmnet displayed 11 July 2009
Farhan said the fighter was killed in fierce fighting between the Islamist forces and the government soldiers which took place in Abdi Azizi district in Mogadishu early on Saturday.
Somali government has been repeating that foreign fighters were fighting alongside Al Shabaab and Hzbul Islam Islamist groups.”