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Article: `Searching for something better'; A fighter from Minneapolis was buried in Somalia, and next to him was another man, apparently a Twin Cities convert to Islam.(NEWS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- September 13, 2009
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Byline: RICHARD MERYHEW; JAMES WALSH; STAFF WRITERS
The call from Somalia carried devastating news, and a twist.
Friends of Mohamoud Hassan got the call nine days ago that he had become the latest Somali-American from Minneapolis to die in his homeland. Buried the same day, they were told, was a companion who went by the Muslim nickname "Abdirahman."
But "Abdirahman" was not a Somali-American.
The caller from Somalia described him instead as a "Caucasian American" who had fought alongside the Somali men who had come from the Twin Cities.
Abdirahman may have been Troy Kastigar, a 28-year-old from Minneapolis who converted to ...