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Rep. Keith Ellison says U.S. authorities are trying to help the missing Minnesota youth thought to be caught up with a radical Islamic faction in war-torn Somalia return to the United States. Ellison told Minnesota Public Radio that he’s been briefed on classified information about the issue.

The story of Somali youth who vanished from the Twin Cities, possibly to fight alongside jihadists back in their home country, is transforming passionate debates at Minneapolis coffee shops into quieter community introspection about how to rebuild the local Somali community’s image.