Al Shabaab may have murdered Minneapolis recruit in Somalia
by Jerry Gordon, The Iconoclast, June 7, 2009
FoxNews, reported the second death of a Somali American youth from Minneapolis, 17 year old Burhan Hassan in Mogadishu, Friday. Hassan may have been recruited for the Taliban-like Al Shabaab militia in Somalia at the Abubakar As-Saddique Mosque in Minneapolis. Hassan’s uncle, Osman Ahmed testified at a US Senate Homeland Security and Government Committee (HSGAC) hearing in March about his nephew, Hassan and accusations against the Mosque’s Imam, who was put on a government ‘no-fly’ list. We reported Ahmed’s testimony in the June NER article, “Foot Soldiers of Islam”, the basis of a presentation made at the recent Nashville, Tennessee Symposium, “Understanding Jihad in Israel, Europe and America.” Last December, the remains of another Minneapolis Somali American, 27-year old Shirwa Ahmed, a suicide bomber who took the lives of 29 others in Somalia ,were returned for a funeral and interment. Both Hassan and Ahmed attended Roosevelt High School in Minneapolis. The FBI has been investigation the ‘disapperance’ of upwards of 40 Minneapolis area Somali American young men who were reported to have gone to Somalia.
Hassan’s uncle Osman Ahmed in the Fox report noted:
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“Someone who claimed (to be) a member of al-Shabaab called Burhan’s mom Friday (afternoon) and said Burhan died Friday morning,” Ahmed said. “Burhan’s mom got shocked and (threw) the phone when she heard the story.”
“Al-Shabaab assassinated Burhan and shot (him in) the head,” the individual said, according to Ahmed.
A law enforcement official told FOX News on Sunday that one of the Somali-American men was recently killed in Somalia by artillery fire, but the official declined to release the man’s name.
“My sister still is under shock,” Ahmed said.
