http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,509839,00.html
“Source: ‘Several’ Missing Somali-Americans Back in U.S. After Overseas Terror Mission”
Thursday, March 19, 2009
By Mike Levine
SNIPPET: “Families that belong to this Minnesota mosque, Abubakar As-Saddiqu, were suspected of having a role in their loved ones’ disappearance.
Many of the Somali-American men who were recruited to join an Al Qaeda-linked terrorist group overseas have returned to the United States, according to a source familiar with an FBI investigation into the matter — but the FBI still has not revealed publicly if it is pursuing arrests in the case.
“Some of the guys who were missing aren’t missing anymore,” the source said. “Some of them got blown up and some of them came back, and some of them are still there [in Somalia].””
Thanks to But Three Lefts Do and Rushmore Rocks for the ping to this thread.
Note: The following post is a quote:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2212097/posts
Somali man’s return to Minn. has locals buzzing
StarTribune ^ | 3/22/09 | ABBY SIMONS and RICHARD MERYHEW
Posted on March 22, 2009 10:31:38 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
A young Somali man from Minneapolis believed to have been recruited by a terrorist group to travel to his war-torn homeland has returned to Minnesota, a community leader said Saturday.
Omar Jamal, executive director of the Somali Justice Advocacy Center, said Saturday that the 22-year-old man was recruited for jihad before a change of heart led him to return in recent months. Jamal wouldn’t confirm the man’s identity, saying that he and his family fear for their safety and are in hiding. Others identified him only as Kamal.
The disappearances of perhaps a dozen young men from the Twin Cities have traumatized and divided the local Somali community.
Jamal also wouldn’t say why the man went to Somalia or how he financed the trip, but said he apparently returned because “his expectation was not what he wanted when he went over there. ... I think he simply didn’t like what he saw over there.”
Jamal said the man has met with FBI investigators but is not in jail.
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