In this undated photo released by the family at a news conference in December 2008, Burhan Hassan is seen. Hassan was one of many young Somali men who went missing from Minneapolis last year and according to his family was recruited by radical elements in Somalia. Hassan's family learned on Friday June 5, 2009 that the 17-year-old had been killed under mysterious circumstances and buried in Mogadishu.
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'Unusual circumstances'?! He was FIGHTING in Somalia!
“The most recent disappearances happened last November, on Election Day. That’s when 17-year-old Burhan Hassan and six of his friends seemed to vanish. As the rest of the Somali community in the Twin Cities’ Cedar-Riverside neighborhood were watching the election returns, the boys slipped away, boarded a plane and headed to Africa.”
“The most recent disappearances happened last November, on Election Day. That’s when 17-year-old Burhan Hassan and six of his friends seemed to vanish. As the rest of the Somali community in the Twin Cities’ Cedar-Riverside neighborhood were watching the election returns, the boys slipped away, boarded a plane and headed to Africa.”
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At the time of their departure, Burhan Hassan, the 17-year-old, was a senior at Roosevelt High School; 18-year-old Mohamoud Hassan was studying engineering at the University of Minnesota; and 19-year-old Abdisalam Ali was studying health care at the University of Minnesota
Feisal Hassan, NCC student, feels that brainwashing is being aimed directly at Somali young men in the area. However, this topic disturbs him in other ways.
“It’s making the Muslim community look like we might all have ties to some terrorist groups when we don’t. Each person chooses what they do. Just because someone’s really religious in their faith doesn’t mean they have links to Al Qaida,” Hassan said.
Odd that somebody, anybody, would be killed in a peaceful place like Mogadishu, given the fine job Bubba and the UN did in bringing peace to the region in the 90’s.