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November 24, 2009       Share:    

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/24/us/24terror.html

Americans Recruited to Join Al-Qaeda-Linked Somali Terrorists

(New York Times) Andrea Elliott - Federal officials on Monday unsealed terrorism-related charges against eight new suspects they say were key actors in a recruitment effort that led young Americans to join al-Shabaab, a violent insurgent group in Somalia with ties to al-Qaeda. The recruitment operation largely focused on Somali-American men from the Minneapolis area. The recruits attended training camps in Somalia run by Somali, Arab and Western instructors, who taught them to use machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades and indoctrinated them with anti-American and anti-Israeli beliefs, according to court documents. There are indications that enlistment continues. Last month, the Nevada Highway Patrol stopped a rental car carrying five young Somali men who said they were en route to a wedding in San Diego. A lawyer with knowledge of the case said three of the men soon crossed the Mexican border, en route to an airport.

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