Twin cities: Somali community in danger because of a few

[General Duke]

FBI Investigates One of ‘The Missing’ as Possible Somali Suicide Bomber

 

Last Edited: Tuesday, 25 Nov 2008, 9:33 PM CST

Created: Tuesday, 25 Nov 2008, 7:05 PM CST

 

MINNEAPOLIS—The FBI is investigating a 27-year-old man who was possibly involved in a suicide bomb in Somalia last month. The investigation began when young Somali men are vanishing off the streets of the Twin Cities. More than 20 have left in the last few months, and the community fears they’ve gone back to Somalia to fight in a holy war.

 

Ahirwa Ahmed’s sister says she believes her brother is alive, but she has not heard from him in more than a year.

 

There were five simultaneous suicide bombing happened October 29 in the northern breakaway provinces of Somali and Al-Qaeda-backed insurgents are suspected. Ahmed is believed to be one of the suicide bombers in Bhutland.

 

From multiple sources in the Somali community, FOX 9 has learned eight men are believed to have left on August 1, and another ten on November 4.

 

Flight itineraries discovered by their families show they left Minneapolis to take the winding trip back, through Dubai, Nairobi and Malindi, Kenya, where they’re believed to have entered Somalia by boat.

 

One of the local sheiks tells FOX 9 they're concerned about who is financing these trips.

 

At least one mother has received a phone call from her son. He told her he was in Somalia, but would not tell her what he was doing there.