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19/09/2009 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Somali 'Travelers': The Holiest Gang, Part III
Somali-American terror recruits have common roots in an impoverished, neglected and sometime oppressed immigrant community. Their feelings of impotence and isolation -- and their desperate searches for structure -- are not new. But for the most part, any violent impulses simmered under the surface until late 2006, when the Ethiopian invasion of Somalia gave American Somalis -- and their kinsmen all over the world -- a cause on which to hang their dissatisfaction.
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14/09/2009 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Somali 'Travelers': The Baddest, Holiest Gang, Part II
When 26-year-old Shirwa Ahmed, a Somali-born immigrant living in Minnesota, blew himself up in Puntland, Somalia, on Oct. 29 last year, he became the very first American suicide bomber, and a harbinger of a looming crisis. Ahmed sneaked into Somalia in late 2007, followed by potentially scores of other young Minnesotan Somali-Americans.
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13/09/2009 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Somali 'Travelers': The Holiest Gang, Part I
On Oct. 29 last year, Shirwa Ahmed drove a car full of explosives up to a government compound in Puntland, a region of northern Somalia, and blew himself up. The blast -- apparently orchestrated by al-Shabab, an Islamic militant group with ties to al-Qaida -- was part of a coordinated attack in two cities that killed more than 20 people. A BBC reporter described body parts flying through the air.
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