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Article: Somalia's leader condemns terror recruiting in U.S.
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- October 5, 2009
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ST. PAUL, Minn. -- The president of Somalia on Sunday denounced
the recruiting of young men from Minnesota's huge Somali community
for terrorist activity in his war-ravaged homeland, and said he
plans to work with the U.S. government to bring those still alive
back home.
President Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed spoke with The Associated
Press while visiting the Minneapolis area, where authorities believe
as many as 20 young Somali men were possibly recruited by a vision
of jihad to fight and returned to the impoverished nation over the
last two years.
At least three have died in Somalia, including one who
authorities believe was the first American suicide bomber. Three
others have pleaded guilty ...