Shirwa Ahmed
Shirwa Ahmed | |
|---|---|
| Born | c. 1983 Somalia |
| Died | October 29, 2008 Puntland, Somalia |
| Cause of death | Suicide bombing |
| Nationality | Naturalized U.S. citizen |
| Motive | Politics and religion |
Shirwa Ahmed (c. 1983 – October 29, 2008) was a 26-year-old
He detonated a car bomb in Somalia in October 2008, killing himself.Life
Ahmed immigrated to the
September 11, 2001.[1][3] Motivated by a mixture of politics and religion, he joined Al-Shabaab, a militant Somali group.[1] Then, on October 29, 2008, — or the 28th[2] — he drove a car loaded with explosives into a government compound in Puntland in the northern region of the country, and blew himself up.[1] The FBI investigated the incident and returned Ahmed's remains to Minneapolis that November.[1]
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h Elliott, Andrea (July 11, 2009). "A Call to Jihad, Answered in America". The New York Times Sunday Magazine. Archived from the original on 2013-11-12. Retrieved June 28, 2010.
- ^ a b c Pierre Thomas and Jason Ryan (November 25, 2009). "Feds Probing Possible Minn. Terror Group". ABC News. Retrieved June 28, 2010.
- ^ a b c Nick Baumann (September 2011). "Locked Up Abroad—for the FBI". Mother Jones magazine. Archived from the original on 2017-06-23. Retrieved 2017-06-25.
What worries federal authorities is that Ahmed was one of at least 20 young men who left Minnesota between 2007 and 2009 for Somalia—intending, the FBI believes, to join the Al Qaeda-linked Islamist group al-Shabaab. Since then, several more of these men are believed to have become suicide bombers—including one just this past May.
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