The FBI is reaching out to the Somali-American community amid reports that young men are being recruited to be trained as suicide bombers in Somalia, officials said Thursday. (FBI)From Yahoo News/AFP:
CHICAGO (AFP) – The FBI is reaching out to the Somali-American community amid reports that young men are being recruited to be trained as suicide bombers in Somalia, officials said Thursday.
"There are reports of kids missing from different parts of the country," said FBI special agent E.K. Wilson.
"Our concern is that they are returning to fight and to train to fight or conduct terrorist activity."
Citing Department of Justice policy, Wilson said he could not confirm whether the FBI was actively investigating whether a terrorist recruiting cell was operating in the Somali-American community.
About 20-40 Somali youth are reported to have disappeared in Minneapolis where about half of the estimated 200,000 Somali-Americans reside.
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My Comment: I will be surprise if the Somali community assists the FBI. From my experience in Canada I have found them to be a very closed and isolated ethnic group that are suspicious of outsiders .... especially the police.
Then again .... I could be wrong.