Mogadishu -- Somali President Sheikh Sharif Ahmed called on all Somalis living in America ...
| ... who are not necessarily Somali-Americans, or Americans ... |
... not to engage in the activities of Al-Shabaab, the Islamist rebel organisation. "I call on the Somali-American community not to send their youth to Somalia to fight alongside Al-Shabaab," he said in a press briefing Sunday.
| Better just to drive the cab in Minneapolis, boys ... |
Somalis began arriving in the United States in significant numbers after the U.S. intervention in Somalia's humanitarian crisis in 1992. American media reports say last year, a group of Somali-Americans left Minneapolis and are feared to have been recruited into Al-Shabaab.
The president showed concern over the high number of Somalis coming from America to support Al- Shabaab's activities. "I am saying to those young men from abroad: 'Your families fled your home to America because of insecurity. You should not return here to ferment violence against your people,'" he said.
| Then again, we're not too pleased with them fomenting violence in Minneapolis ... |
The US homeland security website acknowledges that Somalis are indeed moving in large numbers to Somalia to support the terror movement's activities. |