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Note: The following post is a quote:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2332632/posts
5th Twin Cities Somali man is killed in war-torn homeland
StarTribune ^ | 9/4/09 | Richard Meryhew
Posted on September 4, 2009 8:09:02 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
A fifth Somali man from Minneapolis apparently has been killed in his war-ravaged homeland, a relative said Friday.
Mohamoud Hassan, a 23-year-old former engineering student at the University of Minnesota, reportedly died in the past day or two.
“It’s real bad news,” Hassan’s uncle said Friday night. “But that is what happened.”
The uncle, who did not want to be identified, said he didn’t know when Hassan was killed, but added that “it’s very recent. Today or last night.”
The circumstances of Hassan’s death were not immediately known.
Abdirizak Bihi, a community activist who visited with Hassan’s grandmother on Friday, said she learned of her grandson’s fate after receiving a phone call from a relative of another young Somali-American who left his home in the Twin Cities last summer to return to Somalia to fight.
That man had told his relatives in a phone conversation shortly after noon Friday that he was standing in a cemetery in Mogadishu and had buried Hassan.
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ADDING to post no. 88; link courtesy of Oorang:
http://terrorfreesomalia.blogspot.com/2009/09/fifth-american-jihadists-minneapolis-mn.html
2009
“The Fifth American jihadists From Minneapolis, MN - Terrorist Mohamoud Hassan, 23, a student at the University of Minnesota Dies in Somalia”
PHOTO CAPTION: “Mohamoud Hassan, 23, of Minneapolis, was reportedly killed in Somalia Friday. (Image from Facebook)”
SNIPPET: “A fifth Somali-American Jihadists from Minnesota was killed in his east African homeland today while fighting with the Somali extremist group al-shabaab , according to a friend. Terrorist Mohamoud Hassan, 23, a student at the University of Minnesota, was apparently killed during heavy fighting between al-Shabaab and African peacekeepers Friday in Mogadishu.
A fellow fighter called at least one friend in Minnesota to report the news of Hassan’s death, and some young Somali-Americans were quickly spreading the word Friday night through Facebook status updates.
According to one source who heard directly from the friend who received the phone call, Hassan and others were on their way to break their fast for Ramadan when they were attacked.”