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The making of a Minnesota suicide bomber
StarTribune ^
| 7/12/09
| RICHARD MERYHEW, ALLIE SHAH and JAMES WALSH
Posted on 07/12/2009 9:28:39 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
His remains lie a few hundred yards from a bustling highway, in a section of the Burnsville cemetery reserved for Muslims called the Garden of Eden. There is no marker. Only dirt and small rocks cover the final resting place of Shirwa Ahmed, who lived most of his life almost as anonymously.
But the manner of the 26-year-old Minneapolis man's death has put him at the center of one of the most far-reaching U.S. counterterrorism investigations since 9/11.
Nobody knows for sure why Ahmed left Minnesota in late 2007, or how he wound up obliterated in a bomb crater in Somalia a year later. Did the once passive teenager who came of age at Roosevelt High School shooting hoops, wearing hip-hop fashions and hanging out at the Mall of America volunteer for Al-Shabaab, an affiliate of Al-Qaida? Did his self-described transformation into a "God man'' lead him to return to fight in his homeland's civil war, or become a recruit for jihad? Most frightening, was he or any other Somali ever a candidate to return home and strike within the United States?
(Excerpt) Read more at startribune.com ...
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; US: Minnesota; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: ahmed; homicidebomber; humanbomb; minneapolis; shirwaahmed; somali; somalia; suicidebomber; tm
More than just personal for me. We buried my brother in this cemetery in 1981. Since then, the cemetery was purchased by a muslim-run business. Their first order of business was to create a muslims-only section, off limits to all others...
To: Cindy
Final ping for the evening......
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posted on
07/12/2009 9:29:37 PM PDT
by
ButThreeLeftsDo
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo
One millisecond to eternity.....and eternal, painful regret.
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posted on
07/12/2009 9:30:15 PM PDT
by
beethovenfan
(If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
Importing immigrants from militant muslim countries into our decadent, degenerate Hollyweird popular culture is a recipe for catastrophe.
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
A shroud of bacon and a ham turban to go with the pork chops under his armpits and he’ll be all set!
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posted on
07/12/2009 9:38:56 PM PDT
by
2ndDivisionVet
(Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage. ~H.L. Mencken)
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
Thank you for the ping ButThreeLeftsDo.
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posted on
07/12/2009 9:45:24 PM PDT
by
Cindy
To: Cindy
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posted on
07/12/2009 9:46:26 PM PDT
by
ButThreeLeftsDo
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo
Good night.
So much to say, but I’ll say, May God comfort you and sleep well.
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posted on
07/12/2009 9:49:39 PM PDT
by
Cindy
To: All
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posted on
07/12/2009 9:50:46 PM PDT
by
Cindy
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
This is good. Now, when you're visiting the cemetery and nature calls, you know the best place to go relieve yourself.
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posted on
07/12/2009 9:55:18 PM PDT
by
metalurgist
(Want America back? It'll take guns and rope. We're too far gone.)
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
A better solution would have been to cremate the remains of Ahmed and spread the ashes over a human waste recycling facility. Shiite joins shiite.
To: metalurgist
As if I could approach that sector......
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posted on
07/12/2009 10:01:23 PM PDT
by
ButThreeLeftsDo
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo
Minnesota to Somalia to Hell. That’s quite the itinerary.
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posted on
07/12/2009 11:03:16 PM PDT
by
Trod Upon
(Obama: Making the Carter malaise look good. Misery Index in 3...2...1)
To: beethovenfan
This Islamofascist POS got what he deserved. Interestingly, he got converted to extremism right here in Minnesota. Do I hear a “Grand Jury” convening?
Don’t forget that this POS was going to kill fellow Moslems. Yeah, “religion of peace” my a*ss.
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
>"Nobody knows for sure why Ahmed left Minnesota in late 2007, or how he wound up obliterated in a bomb crater "Oh let me guess,
Could it have been SATAN?????
Thank You Satan
Rev13:3
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posted on
07/13/2009 1:19:42 AM PDT
by
rawcatslyentist
(<P><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajsov1M4h50"> Thank You Satan</a><P>Rev13:3)
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
Nobody knows for sure why Ahmed left Minnesota in late 2007, or how he wound up obliterated in a bomb crater in Somalia a year later.Couldn't get girls. They promised him 72 of them. End of story.
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posted on
07/13/2009 6:26:21 AM PDT
by
JimRed
("Hey, hey, Teddy K., how many girls did you drown today?" TERM LIMITS, NOW AND FOREVER!)
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
There can't be much of that muslim scum buried in that cemetery if he was driving a truck bomb.
Sorry your brother has to even be in the same cemetery, but then he chose to live in a state that has apparently been designated by the muslim scum as a takeover target.
I believe I will exit Kansas when the first muslim U.S. Senator or Rep. is elected by Kansans, unless I am of a mood to start a crusade by then.
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posted on
07/13/2009 11:30:39 PM PDT
by
tdscpa
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
Another thought: I think if I still lived in the area, every time I visited my brother's grave, leaving flowers, or whatever, I would also visit the muslim bomber's grave, and leave a gift of some spoiled hot dogs, pork chops, bacon, or other suitable “gift”.
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posted on
07/13/2009 11:41:41 PM PDT
by
tdscpa
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