All eyes on US-Somali community as world awaits identity of suicide bombers
July 12, 2010
Written by kenyanobserver, in AFRICA, Featured
Yesterday’s bombings in Kampala at a restaurant and a rugby club have renewed focus on the Somali community here in the US where several young men have disappeared in the last couple of years.
A lot of these young men were recruited in the US to join the militia group, al shabab, which is suspected to have caused the carnage yesterday as patrons sat down to watch the world cup finals in the capital city of Uganda.
24 of these young Somali men are known to have been recruited from one Somali neighborhood in Minnesota to join the militia group (see video report below);
A 25-year old graduate of Roosevelt High School in Seattle, Washington, Abdifatah Yusuf Isse, plead guilty in aiding al shabab’s recruiting efforts in Minnesota almost exactly one year ago.
Seattle is also home to the second largest Somali community in the US after Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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