Why American Suicide Attackers In Somalia Could Be A Future Threat

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Somali militant group al Shabaab claimed June 2 on its website that the suicide bomber who killed three soldiers in a May 30 attack on an African Union peacekeeping base in Mogadishu was a 25-year-old Somali-American from Minnesota who moved to Somalia two years ago.

 

The man, Abdullalli Ahmed, was quoted as saying the attack was in retaliation for how Christians have treated Muslim countries.

 

If al Shabaab’s claim is true, this would be the third confirmed suicide attack carried out by a Somali-American in Somalia. The first was a Minneapolis man named Shirwa Ahmed, who blew himself up in October 2008 in Somaliland. The second was an unnamed 19-year-old from Seattle who was part of a suicide attack in Mogadishu in September 2009. The fact that Abdullalli Ahmed and Shirwa Ahmed were from Minnesota is notable; STRATFOR research indicates that a few dozen Somali-Americans who studied at the Abubakar As-Saddique Islamic Center in Minneapolis have been radicalized and moved to Somalia.

 

 

Read more: http://www.stratfor.com/analysis/20110602-implications-american-suicide-attacker-somalia#ixzz1OIrgVwsY

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Somali militant group al Shabaab claimed June 2 on its website that the suicide bomber who killed three soldiers

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