A member of Pres. Barack Obama’s administration announced another $23 million for food relief efforts in East Africa.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation revealed more details about today’s arrests of Minnesotans accused of aiding the Somlia-based terrorist organization al-Shabab. In a press release, the agency named two women charged with conspiracy to provide material…
Why would young Somali men living in Minnesota return to their war-ravaged homeland to wage jihad? That’s the thorny question that’s been debated by the Somali community and federal investigators since the mysterious disappearances of as many as 20 young…
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…
During a forum on immigrants on Minnesota Public Radio today, Willmar Mayor Lester Heitke said he’d recently learned that the local Somali community had purchased 30 plots in the city’s public cemetery. That lead him to a conclusion:
Naval reformers think the successful rescue of Maersk Alabama captain Richard Phillips from Somali pirates may have highlighted structural imbalances in the U.S. Navy’s ability to handle irregular warfare.
Newsweek has a piece about the recent rash of Somali-American teenagers suddenly disappearing from their Minneapolis homes. The fear is that they are being recruited by radical Islamic groups to fight in their war-torn homeland. As many as 20…
Burhaan Hassan was a fairly typical kid, the kind who asked his mother for $20 when he wanted to go see a movie on weekends. But on Election Day, while much of the world — including his single mother — was consumed by the historic election, the 17-year old and a handful of other Somali-American teenagers quietly boarded a plane to Kenya, en route to the front lines of a Jihad in Somalia. Law enforcement officials fear as many a dozen local boys have been lured by Islamist groups to fight.
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