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  • Somalia for Jihad Training & Experience

    Other than going to Pakistan and Afghanistan for jihad militant training & experience, some young Muslims from the west are going to Somalia and Yemen. This article below is about Britons going to Somalia.

    More Britons travel to Somalia for 'jihad': report
    1 dy ago [AFP] LONDON — Intelligence chiefs have warned British Prime Minister Gordon Brown's government that Somalia is the next challenge in efforts to stem Islamic terrorism, a report said Sunday.

    The officials have warned that the number of young Britons travelling to Somalia to fight in the war-torn country or take part in "terror training camps" is rising, the Independent on Sunday said, citing unnamed sources.

    In particular, they are concerned about the number of people with no direct family connection to Somalia who are travelling there.

    The number travelling there every year has more than quadrupled to at least 100 since 2004, according to the newspaper. ....

    The Shebab, an Al-Qaeda inspired movement, is spearheading a three-month-old offensive to topple Somalia's President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed and has imposed strict Sharia law in areas under its control. ....

  • #2
    There are a number of Somali in the Minneapolis and Twin Cities, and some of them went back to Somalia. But this case below is unusual.

    Young men: '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.

    13 Sept [StarTribune] 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 Islam several years ago, went by that nickname and when last heard from told his mother he was in Kenya. ....

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    • #3
      Let them go along and get trained, more for shooting practice.

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