Parents of Son Killed In Somalia Speak Out

In the past 18 months, 20 young Somali men have disappeared from Minneapolis, Minnesota -- only to re-emerge in Somalia as part of an al-Qaida-backed militia. Some claimed they didn't know they were being recruited by the al-Shabab militia when they accepted a free ticket to Somalia. Their families and the community were shocked to learn their whereabouts. In his first-ever visit to the U.S., Somalia's president asked the Minneapolis community to beware of radical Islamic recruiters. VOA's Jeff Swicord introduces us to one family who lost their son.

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[hajiabdu]

My prayer's are with you for the death of you'r lovely son. hopefully justices will prevail and those who brain washed him of living the country will be found. be strong. samir iyo -eman

[amareto35]

@howie1962 You know Blcks don't have a problem with Alqaeda and vice verza. They have a problem with people like YOU. Even Chris Rock once said " I don't have a problem with Alqaeda, I have a problem with Al Cracker".

He was referring to people like you, I am VERY sure you are NOT elite, and yu don't live in Manhattan or Orange county, you are upset the fact that you couldn't make it, and you're taking your stress out of someone else and blame foy your failure..

[arnaz4]

@torylivingston

Statistics data of how many somali are in Minneapolis can be 100 percent an accrued using and its determine by their social security card

[torylivingston]

I'm not sure where they got the figure for eighty-thousand Somalis, any data I've seen indicates between twenty and thirty thousand in the Twin Cities.

[howie1962]

Praise be to Allah who has removed this filth from our midst.

Inshallah all somaliis should go back to Somalia & GET SHOT IN THE HEAD

The Auswyps are sad because their dead son collected welfare under 5 names

now they will lose the money

Somaliis are DOGSHITthey belong with DOGSHIT

[alnarweeg92]

1:56 he is smiling Allahu akber!

At the time of death, the martyrs sees his place in paradise

-Muhammad(saw)

[bashie34]

sheik sheriff now has enough frequent flyers to return to Minnesota in the future. He spent more time in the air than on land. I guess he was fulfilling his dream of seeing places others have talked about . He is adult with a child's brain. Sad to see that he was elected. Somalia will choose a monkey next , I guess he was the best hawiye lmao .

[iLoveDJIBOUTI]

@salmaaO1x3 inshallah every qabil should work together and kick these al sahbaab out

so what do they do i mean do they roam the streets with their AK-47 and shoot people point blank or something

they are stupid they give islam a bad name

[salmaaO1x3]

@iLoveDJIBOUTI wallahi somali people themselves are fighting over qabil so they cannot even assemble themselves into one body to kick these extremists out, but inshAllah, Allah is on our side, so hopefully things will work out.

[iLoveDJIBOUTI]

@salmaaO1x3 wow really i thought they were 20 people or something

but the poplulation of somalia is much bigger cant they work together and remove those terrorist

[salmaaO1x3]

@iLoveDJIBOUTI 14k .. roughly

[mohtheshmoo]

ISLAM is the cause of all this SUFFERING of the people in SOMALIA. GET RID OF ISLAM

IT IS AS SIMPLE AS THAT. There is NOTHING holy about ramadan a ding dong RAMADAN A DING DONG