Sharif Hotel parades foreign fighter corpse, PICS

[Captain Warya]

******* disgusting. They are parading a dead somali guy as a "foregn Jihadi" while the only sole reason they exist is because of foriegn merceneries.

[Member-sol-]

Spokesman: Third American Killed In Somalia

July 11, 2009 - 5:34 pm | by: Mike Levine

 

Another Minnesota man recruited to join an Al Qaeda-linked group in Somalia has been killed in the war-torn African country, according to a spokesman for the man’s family.

 

Family members of 20-year-old Jamal Bana found photos of his bloody body online, according to Abdirizak Bihi, who has represented many of the families whose loved ones left the Minneapolis area last year to join al-Shabaab, which has been warring with the moderate Somali government since 2006.

 

The FBI has been looking into how more than 20 young, Somali-American men from the Twin Cities and elsewhere were recruited to train and possibly fight alongside al-Shabaab.

 

Like many families of men who left unannounced for Somalia, Bana's mother had been regularly searching the Internet for any information about her son in Somalia, according to Bihi.

 

She came upon a series of photos on a Somali Web site, purporting to show an Afghan or Pakistani fighter who was killed during a fight in Mogadishu on Saturday. But, Bihi said, Bana's mother knew instantly that the gruesome photos – depicting a person with a bloody gunshot wound to the head – were that of her son.

 

“He doesn’t look Somali. He has very light skin,” Bihi said. “So they thought he is a foreign jihadist from Afghanistan or Pakistan.”

 

Bihi said the Somali government took the photos to show the world that they had killed a foreign fighter. He said most of the photos were taken inside the Somali Presidential Palace, after Bana's body was removed from the streets of Mogadishu.

 

One photo shows the body being carried on a stretcher in the middle of a street, as soldiers and a man in a red collared shirt, with a rifle slung over his shoulder, look on.

 

Fox News has decided not to show the photos in full, due to their graphic nature.

 

An FBI spokesman in Minneapolis said the FBI is aware of the photos, but he would neither confirm nor deny that they show Bana's body.

 

Before leaving for Somalia, Bana had studied electrical engineering at a community college.

 

Bana would be the third known American to die alongside al-Shabaab.

 

Bihi’s nephew, 17-year-old Burhan Hassan, was killed in Somalia last month. He was a senior at Roosevelt High School in Minneapolis when he left for Somalia with Bana in early November last year.

 

It's unclear exactly how Hassan died. Law enforcement officials said Hassan was likely killed by artillery fire or a stray bullet. But his family has accused al-Shabaab of murdering him.

 

Bihi suggested that Bana was also killed by al-Shabaab, after being “brainwashed” to join them.

 

In October 2008, 27-year-old college student Shirwa Ahmed of Minneapolis became "the first known American suicide bomber" when he blew himself up in Somalia, killing dozens, according to the FBI.

 

Bihi was planning to hold a press conference about Bana late this afternoon.

[Som@li]

This government is desperate, this is a Somali man, wha a shame.

 

Eebe ha u naxariisto, it must be sad for his family to see thier son like this.

[Miskiin-Macruuf-Aqiyaar]

Qof dibad ka yimid in uu yahay waa laga garanaa jirkiisa.

 

Qofkii shaki ugu jiray in uu Soomaali ahayna ookiyaal u baahanyahay. Garkiisa laga arkaa.

 

Inay soo bandhigaana ma fiicneen, haddee soo bandhigaayaana inay ka dhaqaan ahayd dhiigga, dhaawaciisana qariyaan, jirkiisana asturaan. Acuudi bilaahi, Soomaali bahalo wada noqdeen.

[Thankful]

Ina lilahi wa ina ilayhi rajioon

 

Rudy, it's as I suspected. The somali sites aren't very reliable bro! They'll write whatever they want, and hide their name. The ones that took the pictures (which was wrong to do), probably new he was not a afghan or pakistani, but rather someone who came from the west. I've been to Somalia numerous times, and they can spot a western Somalia from a mile away. Even if you dress exactly like them, they can tell by the way you walk, talk, sit eat.....etc etc. That you are came from somewhere else. Regardless how well you think you know the language and culture, you will stick out there!!!! I think they wanted to show concrete evidence that people western boys are there.

[N.O.R.F]

This is sick.

 

Allah yarxamhu.

[Naxar Nugaaleed]

It would be callous to say of a dead man that he got what he deserved but lets not forget that this man went halfway around the world to kill, even worse hack people to death as his group has done in baydhaba or to perpetuate a mentality to accounts for hundreds of dead Somalis. At the end of the day, in death he is beyond our judgement and will have meet his maker. Lastly, am sick of this habit of Somali media and certain factions to to exhibit gruesome pictures of dead people.

[Recovering-Romantics]

Originally posted by Naxar Nugaaleed:

It would be callous to say of a dead man that he got what he deserved but lets not forget that this man went halfway around the world to kill, even worse hack people to death as his group has done in baydhaba or to perpetuate a mentality to accounts for hundreds of dead Somalis. At the end of the day, in death he is beyond our judgement and will have meet his maker. Lastly, am sick of this habit of Somali media and certain factions to to exhibit gruesome pictures of dead people.

Very well said. Those who live by the gun, in the end, inevitably die by the gun. Such a tragedy that this kid was brainwashed to leave his home and fight a foreigner's war.

[Hunguri]

D//P

 

QOYS SOOMAALIYEED OO KUNOOL WADANKA MARAYKANKA AYAA SHEEGTAY MAYDKII AY SHALAY SOO BANDHIGTAY DOWLADA KMG

 

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Hooyada dhashay Jamaal Baana ayaa sheegtay in bishii November ee 2008 uu wiilkeedu tagay Somaaliya, waxayna intaas ku dartay in mar qudha uu kala soo hadlay Soomaaliya yadaan la ogayn meesha uu ku sagan yahay.

 

Haddalkan ka soo yeeray C/risaaq Biixi ayaa waxa uu meesha ka baxaya sheegashada Dowlada KMG ay sheegatay in ninkaasi yahay Nin ajaanib ka soo jeedo Afganistan, isla markaana Xarakatul Shabaabul Mujaahidiin sheegeen in Ninkaasi uu ahaa Nin rayid ah oo ay ka soo qabteen Degmada Xamar weyne kadibna dileen Ciidamada Dowlada KMG

 

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