Somali-American Terrorist Threat Overblown? (U.S. News World Report)




 
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Somali-American Terrorist Threat Overblown?     (U.S. News  World Report)
 
March 20th, 2009  
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Somali-American Terrorist Threat Overblown?     (U.S. News  World Report)
U.S. News World Report - Shirwa Ahmed, a Somali-American from Minneapolis, earned the dubious distinction of being the first known U.S. citizen to become a suicide bomber. It appears he was radicalized in his hometown in Minnesota, FBI chief Robert Mueller said recently, adding that the FBI was on the lookout for a handful of other young, male Somali-Americans who had gone missing. Ahmed blew himself up last fall, killing about 30 other people in a suicide truck bombing outside Mogadishu, Somalia.

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