Somali teen from Minnesota reportedly killed in homeland

[Infantry44]

I realize the exodus of teenage/young adult Somali males back to their *Motherland* to participate in terrorist activities is not necessarily news, but I thought this line in particular was interesting.



MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota (CNN) -- A Somali teen who left Minnesota to return to his native country last November has been reported killed.

The 17-year-old, who was not named, was reportedly killed Friday in artillery fire in the violence-ravaged nation's capital of Mogadishu, said the Somali Justice Advocacy Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

The center is asking federal officials for help in bringing the teen's body back to the United States for burial, executive director Omar Jamal said.

The teen was among a group of young Somali-American men who left Minneapolis last year and were feared recruited by the extremist group, al-Shabaab, that has ties to al Qaeda, according to the U.S. State Department.

Al-Shabaab is blamed for a surge of violence in Somalia, as insurgents group fight the government to implement sharia, a stricter form of Islamic law.

The rebel group has said it has recruited many fighters in its battle.

Al-Shabaab, also known as the Mujahedeen Youth Movement, was officially designated as a terrorist organization by the U.S. government in March 2008.

In October, Shirwa Ahmed, 27, a Somali-American who had been radicalized by al-Shabaab in his adopted home state of Minnesota, traveled to Somalia and blew himself up and 29 others.

The incident, the first-ever suicide bombing by a naturalized U.S. citizen, raised red flags throughout the U.S. intelligence community.

Somalis began arriving in the United States in significant numbers after the U.S. intervention in Somalia's humanitarian crisis in 1992.

The Somali-American population is now concentrated in clusters primarily in Minneapolis; Columbus, Ohio; Seattle, Washington and San Diego, California.

The potential recruitment of young Somali-American men has been made possible by "a number of factors that come together when a dynamic, influential and extremist leader gains access to a despondent and disenfranchised group of young men," Andrew Liepman, deputy director for intelligence at the National Counterterrorism Center, said earlier this year.

Many refugees, he said, "lack structure and definition in their lives" and are "torn between their parents' traditional tribal and clan identities, and the new cultures and traditions offered by American society."

[PRB]

I'd volunteer some money to ship his Minn budies over/back to Somalia...skinnies are excellent targets given their thin silhouette...accuracy is a must.

[SF_BHT]

Why bring him back... He started there and came here and went back for Jihad.... Looks like he threw away any allegiance to the USA so he should be interned in his Homeland.....

[Wayneo79]

I remember last fall how a Somali mother from the 'cities' was on the radio and upset that her son was gone, with passport. I remember listening to his brother being interviewed and thinking how that the outcome you just posted would probably be the case but, never expected to see it in the news. Probably the same kid.

Jah, why bring him back here?... he thought enough to rise up against the only country that offered and gave his family a glimmer of hope and a chance. At the risk of sounding like an insensitive bigot, leave him on the soil he died for.

Too bad

[Ret10Echo]

I was trying to track down where I had seen that piece of information about the Somali teens being "taken" from Mosques....claim being that they had gone/been sent back to the homeland for "Medical" purposes.

[SF_BHT]

Originally Posted by Brush Okie

Screw em. feed him to the lions.

Come on the lions need real food...... Somalis do not even make an appetizer.

[Team Sergeant]

Originally Posted by PRB

I'd volunteer some money to ship his Minn budies over/back to Somalia...skinnies are excellent targets given their thin silhouette...accuracy is a must.

LOLOLOL Now that is funny....

[TrapLine]

Originally Posted by SF_BHT

Why bring him back... He started there and came here and went back for Jihad.... Looks like he threw away any allegiance to the USA so he should be interned in his Homeland.....

I completly agree. Unfortunately this is not the first time. Last year the FBI helped to retrieve Shirwa Ahmed's remains after he blew himself and others up in a suicide bombing. He is now buried in a Minneapolis suberb. Now members of the Somali community do not have to travel to Somalia to pay respects to their "martyr."

http://corner.nationalreview.com/pos...U0OWJhNjg0NWU=

[Saoirse]

Infantry44: I realize the exodus of teenage/young adult Somali males back to their *Motherland* to participate in terrorist activities is not necessarily news, but I thought this line in particular was interesting.

The center is asking federal officials for help in bringing the teen's body back to the United States for burial, executive director Omar Jamal said.

I would say to Jamal, "ya probably helped get his scrawny ass over there, THEN YOU PAY to bring him back! Otherwise leave his sorry butt over there!"
For the love of Pete, there was a time I actually thought about moving back to MN, great fishfries and beer at the Legion on Fridays, but when I saw the muslim somalies move into my AO in Southern MN.....it broke me off! They have gone the way of Michigan....thanks people, thanks!

[Richard]

He's Somali? Hell, mail him back in an envelope with two personalized first class postage stamps on it - that should suffice. You can go to one of these make your own postage stamps web-sites ( http://photo.stamps.com/Store/?source=si10985886 ) and make some Randy Shugart and Gary Gordon stamps to use to mail this guy back to his family with love from the citizens of the United States.

Richard's $.02

[Saoirse]

Originally Posted by Richard

He's Somali? Hell, mail him back in an envelope with two personalized first class postage stamps on it - that should suffice. You can go to one of these make your own postage stamps web-sites ( http://photo.stamps.com/Store/?source=si10985886 ) and make some Randy Shugart and Gary Gordon stamps to use to mail this guy back to his family with love from the citizens of the United States.

Richard's $.02

<applauding> Sir Richard, you are so artsy, crafty and snarky! I love it!!

[Ret10Echo]

Originally Posted by Saoirse

Infantry44: For the love of Pete, there was a time I actually thought about moving back to MN, great fishfries and beer at the Legion on Fridays, but when I saw the muslim somalies move into my AO in Southern MN.....it broke me off! They have gone the way of Michigan....thanks people, thanks!

Somalis take to the street to protest group's actions
Relatives and friends of a dead Minneapolis teen complain that a Muslim civil rights group is blocking an FBI inquiry.
By ALLIE SHAH and JAMES WALSH, Star Tribune staff writers
Last update: June 11, 2009 - 11:05 PM

Relatives, friends and neighbors of a Minneapolis teen killed in Somalia pressed their argument Thursday that a Muslim civil rights group is hampering a federal investigation into the disappearances of dozens of Twin Cities Somali men.
At a protest outside the Brian Coyle Community Center in Minneapolis' Cedar-Riverside neighborhood, Abdirizak Bihi, the uncle of Burhan Hassan, who relatives say was killed last week in Mogadishu by a terrorist group, accused the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) Minnesota chapter of discouraging local Somalis from cooperating with the FBI.
"We don't want anyone to come into our community and tell us to shut up," Bihi said. "Law enforcement will not be able to do anything without information from the community."
About 50 people attended the rally, waving signs and hollering, "CAIR out! Doublespeak out!"
During a months-long investigation into the disappearance of up to 20 Somali men, CAIR Minnesota launched a campaign to encourage anyone asked to speak to the FBI to be aware that they can have a lawyer present.
Jessica Zikiri, communications director for CAIR Minnesota, said that effort is not meant to discourage anyone from speaking to investigators. Rather, the campaign is meant to ensure that people's civil rights are protected, she said. She said the group is willing to meet with families of the missing men.
CAIR Minnesota cosponsored an ice cream social at the Coyle Center to discuss the future of the city's civil rights commission. Protesters used the occasion as an opportunity to voice their frustrations.
Jama Dhagad, a distant relative of Hassan, was among the protesters. "These people in the building, they're not representing the Somali community in a good way," he said.
Ifrah Hassan, a cousin of Burhan's mother, balanced her 18-month-old son as she shouted slogans.
"I don't want my son, when he's 18 years old, out of nowhere going someplace else," she said. "We need to find out who did this."

[Aoresteen]

No money for returning him. Just bury him in his HOMELAND, get a 10 digit grid, send the Imam in Minneapolis an UNDER report...

[Ret10Echo]

Originally Posted by Aoresteen

No money for returning him. Just bury him in his HOMELAND, get a 10 digit grid, send the Imam in Minneapolis an UNDER report...

Wonder if he has the latest version of the SAV-SER-SUP