Posted on 06/08/2009 8:21:14 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
He was a slight and sickly teen, nearsighted and, reportedly, confined to a room away from the fighting that raged throughout the city. But the reported death last week of Burhan Hassan, the second Minneapolis man of Somali descent believed to have died in Somalia, has jolted his family and the Twin Cities Somali community.
Hassan, who should have graduated from Minneapolis Roosevelt High School last weekend, was reportedly killed in Mogadishu, Somalia's largely lawless capital. He is one of up to 20 local men and boys of Somali descent to have disappeared over the past two years. Their disappearance led to a nationwide federal investigation into whether they had been recruited for jihad in their families' homeland. Shirwa Ahmed, another Minneapolis man, was killed in October in an apparent suicide bombing in northern Somalia.
Hassan abruptly left Minneapolis in November. Since then, the family had been working behind the scenes to get Hassan out of Somalia, according to his uncle and Omar Jamal, executive director of the Somali Justice Advocacy Center.
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Sounds like a job for Jimmuh Carter--send him on in. Maybe Jesse Jackson could accompany him, since neither ever met a dictator they didn't like.
Maybe they can strike a deal to ship all the MN Somalians back home, since both Jimmuh & Jesse find the US such a repugnant, guilty country. In fact, I would be glad to have the gubmint send Jimmuh his pension straight to Modishu.
vaudine
http://www.mnf-iraq.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=13674&Itemid=1
Try to pull open one eye a little bit and read this. Not everybody who goes to a mosque is a foaming at the mouth murderer. Way too many are, but not every one.
Somali jihad training camps are like roach motels
Once you check in, you don’t check out.
Maybe this kid flunked “Piracy 101”
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