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Group Linked to Al Qaeda May Have Killed Minnesota Man Recruited in Somalia
FOXNews.com ^ | Sunday, June 07, 2009 | By Mike Levine
Posted on June 7, 2009 1:59:19 PM PDT by metmom
A Minnesota man recruited to join an Al Qaeda-linked terrorist group overseas may have been assassinated in Somalia by the very terrorist group he went there to help.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has been investigating for several months at least 20 Somali-American men from the Minneapolis area who recently traveled to Somalia to train with the terrorist group al-Shabaab.
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Somali youth from Minneapolis dies in homeland
StarTribune ^ | 6/7/09 | ALLIE SHAH
Posted on June 7, 2009 1:58:59 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
Another one of the Somali youths who vanished from the Twin Cities last fall has apparently met his death in his homeland.
Burhan Hassan, a studious teenager from Minneapolis, died in Mogadishu and was buried there, an uncle said Saturday evening.
“We received a call from those people in Mogadishu. They confirmed the unfortunate news that our son was killed,” said Abdirizak Bihi, whose sister is Hassan’s mother.
FBI officials could not confirm the news Saturday night.
Bihi said his sister received a call Friday morning informing her that Hassan had been killed and that he did not die in combat.
“Somehow he was killed,” he said. “They did not give us details. But they said there was no fighting from the enemy. Somehow they found him dead, the man said, and he was buried.”
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