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Young men vanish into Somalia, stirring fears of terrorist recruitment
latimes.com ^ | January 18, 2009 | Bob Drogin

Posted on 01/18/2009 7:27:09 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY

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To: Free ThinkerNY

Izlombies......
Coined it.


21 posted on 01/18/2009 9:13:15 PM PST by Walkingfeather
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The youths, who have U.S. passports, followed a well-trod trail from Minneapolis to Mogadishu. Another group took off in August. The FBI believes that over the last two years, 12 to 20 Minnesotans have gone to Somalia.

12 to 20 Somalians have left Minnesota.

Had to fix that last line.


22 posted on 01/19/2009 2:43:54 AM PST by Fireone (Get the U.S. out of the U.N., and the U.N. out of the U.S.)
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If they’re leaving the U.S. and going back to Somalia, all the better. Much better they make trouble there and can be killed than giving us headaches here.


23 posted on 01/19/2009 5:04:10 AM PST by ScottinVA (All I needed to know about islam I learned on 9-11.)
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To: squidly

don’t worry. they’ll be back.


24 posted on 01/19/2009 7:46:58 AM PST by MNDude
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To: Free ThinkerNY

e more reason not to let them into this country in the first place.


25 posted on 01/19/2009 12:04:01 PM PST by ridesthemiles
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From the article,

Topping their concern is the case of Shirwa Ahmed, a 27-year-old former Minneapolis resident who went to Somalia in 2007 -- and who may be what Wilson called "the first occasion of a U.S. citizen suicide bomber."

Officials believe the naturalized American was on a terrorist team that detonated five car bombs in two northern Somali cities on Oct. 29, killing at least 30 people, including U.N. aid workers.

This is someone who came here and became a citizen, and then went back to his country of origin to do these things? What does "becoming a citizen" mean these days?

26 posted on 01/19/2009 12:13:23 PM PST by thecodont
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