Nonilex on Nostr: What was happening in #Minnesota then was a tension surrounding the state’s #Somali ...

What was happening in #Minnesota then was a tension surrounding the state’s #Somali community, its 2nd-largest #immigrant population. In 2008, a young Somalia-born man from #Minneapolis was recruited by the Somali Islamist militant group Al Shabab & detonated a car bomb outside a govt building in his birth country’s Puntland region, the first of dozens of young men from the community who would fight for Al Shabab in Somalia &, later, for the #IslamicState in Iraq & Syria over the next decade.