^^^These mothers fled with their kids, and they were taken by a network in the Twin Cities to go back and kill innocent people. For our community here we need answers and insha Allah we will get them soon.

^^^Imagine the mother of Jamal had to see his corpse paraded on Somali sites that must have broken her. Also these individuals are here, hiding behind institutions and getting lawyers. May they all be caught and tried, they don’t deserve a single tear of these Mothers.

This was a Somali tragedy, and the youths were targeted because of their clan there is no doubt about that. Lets not argue over this historic fact and its good to remmeber so such things never happen again insha Allah. May Allah give them his mercy and give our land peace.

The mothers of the arrested men Ahmed's mother... In the second row of the federal courtroom in Minneapolis, Ahmed's mother rocked gently and dabbed at her eyes, one more tragic figure from the Somali diaspora in Minnesota. Isse's mother His mother, in an interview earlier this week, said Isse was a "good boy" who fell in with the wrong crowd while in Minneapolis. Speaking in broken English without a translator, the woman — who did not want to give her name but acknowledged she was Isse's mother — said her son changed after meeting a girl in Minneapolis while on break from school.

The call to terrorism much more seductive than the reality He was so small and thin that his black slacks bagged in the seat and bunched up on his Puma tennis shoes. The black security uniform shirt sagged on his frame like a throw blanket, leaving the U.S. flag sewed to the shoulder at half-mast on his biceps. Magistrate Judge Susan Richard Nelson asked Salah Osman Ahmed if he understood the charges, that he was being indicted for aiding terrorists and plotting to "kill, kidnap, maim or injure" people in foreign countries. Ahmed's voice was barely a whisper: "Yes," he said, stroking a faint beard. In the second row of the federal courtroom in Minneapolis, Ahmed's mother rocked gently and dabbed at her eyes, one more tragic figure from the Somali diaspora in Minnesota. Sunday: news that two more Somalis who had returned to their homeland to fight were probably dead, two more of about 20 Minnesotans lured back by false promises of religious study or heroism. Monday: shocking charges that a quiet, 26-year-old former parking lot attendant and security guard who lives with his mother in Brooklyn Park may have been assisting terrorist activities. "Do you own a home?" the judge asked. "No." "You drive your sister's car?" "Yes." "How much money do you have in the bank?" "About $30," said Ahmed. Amsterdam and Mogadishu must look awfully exotic to young man with $30 to his name. Whoever paid for his ticket knew that. "What would you rather do, save virgins in Somalia, or work as a part-time security guard in some [hellhole]?" said Steven Simon, an expert on Middle East and terrorism for the Council on Foreign Relations. Simon said that young men lured to jihad come from a variety of incomes and backgrounds. Some are bright and ambitious, others poor and disillusioned. But most share a desire to escape the humdrum. Most importantly, they share an underlying "mobilizing ideology," often instilled by a "seducer." It's generally somebody who has a degree of charisma and oftentimes experience with life on the front lines," Simon said. "Kids can dream of heroic deeds and all kinds of imagined feats, but it usually doesn't count unless somebody can exploit it." That seducer often uses nationalism overlapped with religion, plus what military recruiters call "small group cohesion," to create peer pressure to join. The use of some sort of sexual imagery, such as stories of the enemy raping women, has also been used to "get people's blood boiling." Then all they need is a plane ticket. So, the young men talk to the recruiter and watch glamorous videos on the Internet that show courage and valor. The reality is much different, of course. The reality is Burhan Hassan, an 18-year-old student from Roosevelt High, hunkered in some hovel in a war-torn city, racked with infection or malaria, missing his prescription glasses and wanting to come home. Reality is someone putting a bullet in his head, having decided he was no longer useful. And reality is Ahmed, the skinny kid in the baggy uniform in courtroom 9E Monday, his voice so soft the judge called him to the podium to speak. When he did, he trembled slightly and then, through his lawyer, asked the court for a favor. "Since he was arrested Saturday, his mother has not been able to sleep and is suffering from a lot of anxiety," said attorney James Ostgard. "I would ask the U.S. marshals if they would allow them to embrace briefly." The marshal denied the request, so the judge allowed them to speak quietly in the corner of the room, separated by a railing. After a few minutes, the marshal said: "Let's go." Instinctively, Ahmed's mother reached out and grabbed her son's hand for a moment before the marshal stepped between them. "No touching," he said. Then Ahmed was whisked from the room. It's too bad none of the young Somalis who may be listening to the radical teachings of some charlatan were there to see Ahmed. If they had been, they may have seen the truth: That Ahmed didn't look like a fearsome freedom fighter, but rather a sad, desperate, frightened kid who wanted nothing more than to hug his mother, and could not.

Ali Yusuf Omar and wife Asha Ali say they cannot understand why young men want to return to fight.

CNN source Jamal Bana's family tell reporters they want to know who recruited him to join an Islamist insurgency in Somalia.

Tormented mother grieves son who heeded a fatal call The toughest days A woman of faith, Bihie has leaned heavily on the Qur'an and prayer. It sustained her when she fled the bloodshed of her homeland more than a decade ago and again when her husband died in an accident in Kuwait. The friendship offered by several other families with missing sons has also proved a weekly comfort. She thinks of Burhan constantly, and writes often in the journal she keeps at her bedside. Sometimes, she writes poems about her son whom she lovingly nicknamed "Bashir" after his uncle, a doctor who delivered the boy. She sobbed uncontrollably in April when someone at Roosevelt High called her to ask if she could return Burhan's schoolbooks. A medical technology student at the time, Bihie was driving home from an internship in Glencoe, Minn., and had to pull off the highway because she was crying so hard. "That was the toughest day," she said. The days since haven't been much better. She cannot bear to look at Burhan's clothes or see his backpack. Even photographs of her son bring her to tears. "You can smile, but it is a false smile," she said. Community divided In the aftermath of Burhan's disappearance, Bihie's family and others asked tough questions of the Abubakar administrators. The mosque leaders have repeatedly said the mosque wasn't involved in the disappearance of the men. But Bihie can't help but wonder, because Burhan spent so much time at the mosque, whether someone there influenced him. The community finger-pointing, some of it rooted in longstanding clan rivalries, has often been bitter. That some have attacked Bihie and other families of the missing for speaking out and questioning the mosque has hurt her greatly. It stings even more that some say she has attacked her own religion. "I don't know what's happened to my community," she said, shaking her head slowly. "How can they say we're destroying the mosque? ... We still are missing other kids. ... I was missing my son. I needed information. "I don't know what is going on, but something is going on," she continued. "I need an answer ... the Somali community -- we need an answer." source

Indictments Unsealed The indictments unsealed this week raised almost as many questions as they answered. While the grand jury indicted two men -- Abdifatah Isse and Salah Ahmed -- it is clear that they are not the main targets in the FBI's investigation. The two men, both Somali-Americans in their 20s, are charged with providing material support to a terrorist organization and conspiracy. Ahmed was also charged with two counts of lying to the FBI. But the indictment is thin on details about what the two men are actually accused of doing. It is only three pages long and does not discuss anything about the recruitment of young Somali-Americans. The terrorist organization the two men were allegedly helping is never mentioned by name. And what the conspiracy was, exactly, is also never spelled out -- although there is a vague reference to a flight one of the two men took from Minneapolis to Somalia. Government officials tell NPR that this week's indictments are just the first in a series of charges that will come out of Minneapolis in the coming days and weeks. The grand jury is still meeting, and sources tell NPR that there could be as many as six more indictments coming. What may be most interesting is the way the Somali-American community has reacted to news of the indictments. In terrorism cases like those of the Lackawanna Six or the Fort Dix suspects, the community has typically rushed to the defense of those linked to terrorism. They say the FBI has accused the wrong people, or that they are being scapegoated. Not this time. The latest indictments have the Somali-American community in Minneapolis virtually punching the air."Everybody is talking about it," says Bihi, who has combed the coffee shops around the Cedar-Riverside community where the Somalis gather to gauge public opinion. "I am seeing support for law enforcement. I am seeing support for the indictments, and also I am seeing tremendous support for the families."

Indictments Stir Fear, Relief For Somali-Americans By Dina Temple-RastonMorning Edition, July 15, 2009 · The Somali-American community in Minneapolis has greeted the news of indictments in a long-running investigation into the disappearance of young Somalis from the city's neighborhoods with a mixture of relief and fear. The relief comes from a sense that the indictments mean authorities are close to revealing who they believe convinced the young men to leave the United States, go to Somalia and fight alongside members of a terrorist group called al-Shabab. The fear grows out of an uncertainty about who might have been behind it. "We are scared that the recruiters can be anywhere in our community and we don't know them," said one community leader, Abdirizak Bihi. "The parents are not sleeping. They are on the phone, on the Internet, scanning and monitoring what is happening in Somalia. It has been devastating for the families of the missing kids, and it has been very devastating for the whole community. These kids have been tricked into going to Mogadishu and fighting." According to the FBI, more than two dozen young Somali-American men have left the Twin Cities in the past two years and joined the ranks of al-Shabab, a Somali militia battling the transitional government. The group is on the U.S. government's list of terrorist organizations, and intelligence officials say it has forged increasingly close ties to al-Qaida. That's part of the reason why some law enforcement officials are calling this case the most significant terrorism investigation in the United States since the Sept. 11 attacks.

Two More Deaths The unsealing of the indictments came on the heels of a gloomier development. As the fighting has stepped up in Somalia, there came word over the weekend that two more of the young men who had joined al-Shabab from Minneapolis had been killed. Jamal Bana and Zarkaria Maruf were killed during clashes between al-Shabab and government forces in Mogadishu. Bana's mother first learned her son was dead when she saw photographs of his body on the Internet. Maruf's mother received a phone call from Somalia that said her son had been killed. Then, on Tuesday, both families received e-mails from someone who claimed to be representing al-Shabab. The e-mails said the young men had died as martyrs and good Muslims. The writer told the parents not to be sad because their sons were now in paradise. Bihi, the community leader, says the latest deaths have been really hard. "Especially for the mom of Jamal Bana," he says. "It is also very devastating for the whole community. Those two deaths are making families who are missing the recruited kids -- it is making them less optimistic" that they will return home alive. Bana and Maruf are the third and fourth youths from Minneapolis to die in Somalia since the recruitment effort began. Last October, a young man named Shirwa Ahmed blew himself up in a suicide bombing. Last month, Bihi's nephew, 17-year-old Burhan Hassan, was killed in Mogadishu.What is clear is that after nearly a year of waiting for the FBI to capture whoever is behind the recruitment, the community is eager for the agency to move in and make arrests. The concern is that if those arrests don't happen soon, more of their sons will go missing. Source: NPR

Somali-born Roosevelt grad pleads guilty to terror acts A Roosevelt High School graduate, Abdifatah Yusuf Isse, has pleaded guilty in Minnesota to terrorism-related charges in connection with the disappearances of dozens of U.S. Somali youths, some of whom turned up fighting with suspected terrorists in Somalia and at least one of whom became a suicide bomber, according to court documents and interviews. Court records show Abdifatah Yusuf Isse, 25, a 2002 Roosevelt High School graduate and a former economics student at Eastern Washington University, traveled to Somalia to train with Al-Shabaab, a Somalia-based radical Islamist group that last year was designated by the U.S. State Department as a foreign terrorist organization. His court-appointed attorney said Isse was likely being recruited as a possible suicide bomber. He pleaded guilty to a single count of providing material support to terrorists — which carries a possible 10-year prison sentence — and has been cooperating with federal investigators in what the FBI has said in an ongoing investigation. His mother, in an interview earlier this week, said Isse was a "good boy" who fell in with the wrong crowd while in Minneapolis. Omar Jamal, the director of the Somali Justice Advocacy Center in Minneapolis, also has spoken with Isse's family and said Isse was approached by jihad recruiters at the Abubakar as-Saddique mosque, the largest Somali mosque in Minneapolis. "These people came here and took these boys right under the noses of the FBI," he said. Isse and another man, Salah Ahmed, were named in an indictment unsealed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis, part of what the FBI has said is a widespread and ongoing investigation into alleged terrorist recruitment among Somalis living in the U.S., including Seattle. Federal prosecutors say Isse went to Somalia with another man in December 2007, that he stayed in Al-Shabaab safe houses, was given an AK-47 and helped construct an Al-Shabaab training camp. After a couple of weeks, however, he decided not to stay and he and another Minnesota man left the camp. Isse stayed in Somalia to visit relatives. He was arrested at Sea-Tac Airport in March when he returned. Paul Engh, Isse's Minneapolis attorney, wrote in documents that Isse "will not be the last defendant indicted" because of the recruitment done by those he trusted. "Recruiting young men ... to blow themselves up while killing the innocent at a crowded marketplace is a definition of evil," Engh wrote in an unsuccessful attempt to reduce restrictions on his client while in jail. "And this recruitment happened at a place of worship." Isse's mother, a devout Muslim who spoke from a tidy apartment in Southwest Seattle, said Isse attended Roosevelt High School and was never very religious.

^ Meiji Somalia will not be held hostage by anyone , it's a new age one of possabilities. inshallah khair

Lool, just watched the video, Sharif Hotel at his finest.

^^^lool, I got it all talk no action well talk is easy and cheap dear lad, Get it?

^^^lool. That was not even funny, sheer desperation. If you can do better do instead of complaining. Puntland is moving forward, we have the new parties and that should be wonderful indeed.

Originally posted by Mansa Munsa: "Xiin Hotel" ku lahaa, Duke, are you echoing Bush's doctrine: --Either you with us or with the terrorist--, anyone who opposes your views must have "Hotel" surname, pretty hilarious least to say [/qb] Keep up with the thread adeer, we have a man here who thinks his father is Sharif Hotel, or the man behind the “Midnimo Qaran” flop that man is well known his first name is Xiin, thus Xiin Hotel no one else have come out to claim Sharif is their dad, though we have yet no verification of his claims, from Mr Hotel himself.

Somali terror case By David Hanners dhanners@pioneerpres s.com Updated: 07/15/2009 03:05:09 PM CDT The order to seal the case comes a day before a magistrate is to hold a detention hearing for one of the men, Salah Osman Ahmed. An indictment accusing Ahmed and Abdifatah Yusuf Isse of terrorism-related crimes was unsealed Monday, five months after it was handed up by a federal grand jury in Minneapolis. It was made public after Ahmed, of Brooklyn Park, made his first appearance before U.S. Magistrate Susan Richard Nelson. But a judge ordered the case sealed early today. It wasn't immediately clear who had ordered the closure — either U.S. District Judge James Rosenbaum or Nelson. Rosenbaum's office did not immediately return a call for comment. Nelson's office referred a caller to the U.S. district clerk's office, which also did not immediately return a call for comment. Asked about the file, a deputy clerk in the clerk's office said it no longer existed. Similarly, it had disappeared on the federal court system's PACER (Public Access to Court Electronic Records) facility. W. Anders Folk, an assistant U.S. attorney handling the case, declined to say whether the case was sealed at the request of the government. On Tuesday, Folk filed a notice with the court saying that in Ahmed's case, prosecutors intended to use "information obtained or derived from electronic surveillance and/or physical searches" Local Somali leaders have said that perhaps 20 men from the Twin Cities have returned to Somalia, and that at least four of them have been killed in the fighting. Isse and Ahmed were each charged with a single count of providing material support to terrorists, as well as a count of conspiracy to "kill, kidnap, maim and injure." The alleged incidents occurred between September 2007 and December 2008, the indictment claims. The dates coincide with the disappearance of the first wave of young Somali men from the Twin Cities The material support, the indictment alleges, was "namely personnel including themselves, knowing and intending that the material support and resources" were going to be used to kill, kidnap or injure people in a foreign country. The conspiracy charge alleges that they conspired with each other and others to engage in terrorism. The indictment claims that Ahmed boarded a Northwest Flight in at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport on Dec. 6, 2007, and flew to Amsterdam, "with a final destination of Somalia." Ahmed is also charged with making two false statements to FBI agents. He allegedly told the FBI that he didn't know anyone on the flights, and he is also accused of telling agents that he was traveling alone

^^^Gabba there are two groups. The first group seem older, street toughs "reformed". The second wave were younger mostly better educated employed with clean records. Those who sent them are the main targets of the investigation these are the small fishes.

^^^I have adeer, one of the young boys who lost his life Burhan Hassasn was a relative.

^^^These men are just foot soldiers and they are talking, but more mayhem is coming.

Peace Actions, with all due respect you came here sounding like Xiin Hotel all angry and uppity about Sharif Hotel. I understand Xiins misery, his desperation is deep since all his predictions about the ”Midnimo Qaran” came to naught. Now adeer its confusing that you still make excuses for Sharif Hotel, the simpleton has made monumental mistakes, he has jumped from one Caravan to another. From the controversial sea to Kenya scandal to his appeasement of Xasan Dahir Aways to his utter lack of leadership in the war front the man has failed. These are things I have highlight and will continue to do so insha Allah. Let me remind you that Sharif Hotel does not control, Baidoa, Kismayu, Jowhar and Marka all important capitals of the regions nearby. He does not even control a few KM outside his home, He has lost any pretence to peace making and covets the chair more than the lives of the people. Your man crush on Sharif Hotel aside, there is no reason a mentally stable person would support this man, a two faced, blatant impostor and hypocrite who just says what ever sounds good. A man who declared Jihad on Ethiopia and cursed Melez Zanawi in public is now begging for his military support and urgent intervention. Again you can attack me all you like, my aim is to highlight the truth. This man's actions and dishonesty , led to the deaths of thousands of children he abandoned in the battle field. and thousands more he has now condemned to a life of terror and misery.

Whats the video about? And done scare his sons in SOL.

^^^You lost the argument long ago Xiin Hotel, one must have a back bone and principles to be consistent. You don’t have neither, your new love for all things Puntland is quite laughable and shows your desperation, Garowe will never accept “Midnimo Qran” crap, also make sure you don’t get caught in the youth trafficking case in MN, justice is coming to town.

Xiin Hotel, you are lost in the abyss old boy you think "Midnimo Qaran" = TFG. Thank God President Faroole understands the truth and has delivered the point home to your father Sharif hotel and Walid Abdalla.