One of Five Suspected Somali Suicide Bomber Laid to Rest

[Jacaylbaro]

 

BURNSVILLE, Minn. (FOX 9)—One of the five men suspected to be a suicide bomber who killed himself and 29 others last October in Somalia, was buried Wednesday at a Burnsville Cemetery.

 

Video: Funeral for Suspected Suicide Bomber

 

 

FOX 9 has learned DNA tests have confirmed Shirwa Ahmed was one of five suicide bombers who killed himself and 29 others last October in northern Somalia.

 

He is also a Minnesotan and a naturalized U.S. citizen.

 

The FBI helped return Ahmed's remains to his family.

 

At a Twin Cities cemetery in Burnsville Wednesday afternoon, the suspected suicide bomber was laid to rest.

 

Shirwa Ahmed, 27, was given a traditional Muslim burial.

 

Family and friends did not wish to talk about the circumstances of his death.

 

Community activist Omar Jamal is one of the few who will.

 

“Honestly I look at him seriously as a victim and not as a criminal, I think of him as a young victim," says Jamal.

 

U.S. intelligence is investigating whether Ahmed and the other missing Minnesota Somali’s attended terrorist training camps.

 

There, lessons are given on explosives and automatic weapons and some of the terrorists seem to speak, with American accents.

 

FOX 9 learned as many as a 20 young Somali men have vanished from the Twin Cities in the last year.

 

Some of those suspicions have focused on the Abuubakar As-Sadiq Islamic Center.

 

It's religious leader, Sheikh Abdirahman was prevented from traveling to Mecca last Saturday.

 

He tells FOX 9, he believes he was placed on the no-fly list because of the on-going investigation.

 

During the funeral Wednesday, Shirwa Ahmed was neither celebrated as a martyr, nor condemned as a killer. He was buried simply as a Muslim man, who died so close, yet so far, from home.

[Jacaylbaro]

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[Kool_Kat]

Allaha unaxariisto, elehkiisna samir iyo imaan ka siiyo...Intuu dilayna allaha janadii ka waraabiyo...It is a tragedy in any way you look at it...

[Queen Arawello]

Indeed this is a tragedy! Those indoctrinating these innocent young men and propagating these evil ideologies must be stopped at once!

 

I agree with the community leader in his analysis of this tragic incident!

[Aaliyyah]

May Allah swt have mercy on their soul.

 

salaam

[Libaax-Sankataabte]

Ilaahay ha u naxariisto inta dhimatay dhammaantood. Waa wax laga naxo waxani.

 

How did this young man interpret Islam to justify going to Hargeisa and blowing himself up with the intention of killing as much innocent people as possible. When the FBI brings back the remains of your suicide-bomber relative, Is there any surprise that our mosques become targets of FBI investigations?

 

This is a sad picture. I feel for that mother.

 

[Fabregas]

Ameen.

 

There might be some issues for danish as well now:

 

http://hiiraan.com/news2/2008/Dec/denmark_somalis_ leaving_to_fight_in_somalia.aspx