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Minn. Woman Says Nephew Involved in Somali Suicide Bombing
A St. Paul Somali woman has identified a man thought to have been involved in a suicide kaboom in Somalia as her stepson, Farah Mohamed Beledi.Mumina Roba looked at a picture of the alleged bomber and said through an interpreter: "It is him." "I'd know that nose anywhere." Authorities are still working to identify the man involved in last week's bombing in Mogadishu that killed two African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... troops and one government soldier. Beledi is among more than 20 men who left Minnesota in recent years to possibly fight with the terror group  al-Shabaab in Somalia.... Harakat ash-Shabaab al-Mujahidin aka the Mujahideen Youth Movement. It was originally the youth movement of the Islamic Courts, now pretty much all of what's left of it. They are aligned with al-Qaeda but operate more like the Afghan or Pakistani Taliban. The organization's current leader is Ibrahim Haji Jama Mee'aad, also known as Ibrahim al-Afghani. Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, a Kenyan al-Qaeda member, is considered the group's military leader... Posted by: Fred 2011-06-09 |
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