Militants say suicide bomber was Somali-American

[Robb]

Source: AP (via CBS)

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — The militant group al-Shabab said the man who carried out a suicide bomb attack on a base in Mogadishu this week was a Somali-American.

Al-Shabab said on its website that a 25-year-old man named Abdullahi Ahmed was the suicide bomber who attacked an African Union peacekeeping base in Mogadishu, Somalia's capital, on Monday, killing two AU troops and one government soldier. Ahmed was said to have moved to Somalia from Minnesota two years ago.

The Internet report purported to quote Ahmed before his death saying that he wanted to carry out the attack because of abuses by Christians of Muslim countries.

If the report is confirmed, Ahmed would become at least the third Somali-American to have carried out a suicide bombing in Somalia.

Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/06/03/ap/africa/main20068577.shtml

[harmonicon]

1. ah, yes, he has to be called a "Somali-American"....

because Americans aren't terrorists, and the US doesn't foster and export terrorists. err....

[Alamuti Lotus]

2. I take the opposite insinuation there...

the insinuation is possibly more of the "enemies among us" sort of implication--be afraid, go buy stuff, and do what the gov't says and all that stuff..

[harmonicon]

3. hmm.... I see your point.

However, when there are terrorist attacks within the US, very rarely are they labeled as such, but maybe that's because they're carried out by white men.