Group Linked to Al Qaeda May Have Killed Minnesota Man
June 7, 2009 by national
Filed under Incident Reports
A Minnesota man recruited to join an Al Qaeda-linked terrorist group overseas may have been assassinated in Somalia by the very terrorist group he went there to help.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has been investigating for several months at least 20 Somali-American men from the Minneapolis area who recently traveled to Somalia to train with the terrorist group al-Shabaab.
One of those men — 17-year-old Burhan Hassan — was killed in Mogadishu on Friday, his uncle, Osman Ahmed, told FOX News.
“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 mans name.
