Minnesota's Somali community has gained notoriety in the past year due to at 20 Somali youths who have gone to Somalia to fight for al Shabaab. At least 2 known Somalis from Minnesota have been slain in Somalia, one was kiled as a suicide bomber and the 2nd was killed in a battle.
Now the FBI has concern that Somali youths in the Atlanta region may have also been recruited by al Shabaab and sent to Somalia to fight jihad.
Somali in Canada, England and Scandanvia have also been recruited by al Shabaab to fight jihad. New America Media
CLARKSON, GA. -– In this small town on the edge of Atlanta, the FBI and local law enforcement are looking out for an alarming kind of crime: radical Islamist terrorists potentially trying to recruit the town's young Somali-Americans to fight a war in Africa.Related Posts:
There is terrorist recruitment taking place already in Minnesota, said Clarkston police chief Tony J. Scipio. That's why his department and the FBI are looking for anything similar in the Somali-American community here in Clarkston.[...]
"From what we know about recruiters, whether they're Islamic, drug gangs or the coach, they're looking for those kids who are looking for something deeper inside. To one it could be geopolitics. To one it could be a friendship. They're all looking for something," he explained.
And terror recruiters are quickly becoming adept at online tactics, noted Young.
"That's what we see as a trend hitting home,” he said. “We see a lot more Internet recruiting being targeted to our youth."
If young people go to Somalia, the FBI's biggest worry is that they may return with dangerous souvenirs, like bomb-making or demolition skills and a radical anti-U.S. agenda.
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