Spotlight shines on Minnesota connections to Somali violence

Somalia and Minnesota: Maya Nishikawa of WCCO-TV reports that 20-year-old Jamal Bana, one of an estimated 20 Somali-Americans who disappeared from Minneapolis last fall, has been killed in a skirmish in Somalia. At the same time, the Associated Press reports on the death of another Somali-American, Zakaria Maruf, who likewise was killed in combat, the fourth of the group to die in Somalia. Andrea Elliott of The New York Times takes an extensive look at this group, which included Shirwa Ahmed, the first known American suicide bomber, who blew himself up in northern Somalia on Oct. 28, 2008.

Source: MinnPost.com