Recruited for jihad? What happened to Mustafa Ali? (MN)

StarTribune ^ | 2/8/09 | Richard Mathew

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

His unmade bed is pushed tight against the far wall of the bedroom, the rumpled blankets untouched since the day he disappeared.

His shirts and jeans still hang from a nearby closet, and books are stacked or scattered about the floor as he left them.

"Nothing has changed," his father says, his voice cracking as he looks around the room where his son once slept. "Nothing has changed since Mustafa left."

Six months have passed since 18-year-old Mustafa Ali slipped out of his family's third-floor apartment on St. Paul's East Side and never came back. Not a day passes without the teenager's loved ones being haunted by the mystery of why he left or what has become of him.

Was he, along with his best friend and more than a half-dozen other Somali teenagers and young men from the Twin Cities, recruited by local imams or Islamic extremists to return to war-torn Somalia to fight in the nation's civil war? Or was Mustafa simply an impressionable teenager acting on a long-expressed desire to return to his homeland?

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Update on on-going story about young Somalis returning home to train and fight....and possible return to fight here......

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Ping.......

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Dear FRiends,

In light of what is transpiring in our nation's capitol this weekend, more than ever, we need to ensure that places like Free Republic and other like-minded places continue to speak the plain truth. Newspapers are dying and the current administation will either bail them out or allow them to fail. If they are bailed out, they will be even more beholding to the coming socialist agenda. If they are allowed to fail, the powers that be will force the remaining electronic media to fill the void. Local coverage only. No national syndicated news/talk. The "Fairness Doctrine", like it or not.

After that, the internet. Free Republic. And others.

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If you can spare a couple of bucks, that would be great...If not, God bless you and please stop by the FReepathon thread and give it a bump.

We're all in this together.

[Cicero]

That’s OK, Dad. He’ll be back in due course—with a bomb.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

A “Stimulus Package”, so to speak....

[End Times Sentinel]

OH NOES!!!

Whatever shall we do?

I know! Let's import some more illiterate, lazy, radicalized, disease infected, unskilled jihadis from somalia to replace them!

They'll add to Minnesota's “rich diversity”!!!

[grey_whiskers]

G'RRRRRRR.

That's MY beloved Minnesota you're talking about.

I keep hoping (since Somalia is, well, "temperate" in climage) that this global warming we've been having (including 22 below zero a couple of weeks ago) will drive the rest of the Somali *terrorist wannabees* to leave, but no such luck yet.

Cheers!