Somalis Leaving Minnesota to Wage Jihad?

Why do these things always seem to happen in Minnesota?

Young Somali men are vanishing off the streets of the Twin Cities. More than 20 have left in the last few months, and the community fears they’ve gone back to Somalia to fight in a holy war.

They’re known in the Somali community simply at The Missing. More than 20 young Somali men, between the ages of 17 and 22, who have left the Twin Cities in the last few months, without a single word to their families.

The families and community leaders believe the men have gone back to fight in a bloody civil war, in which Al Quiada is a major player.

From multiple sources in the Somali community, FOX 9 has learned eight men are believed to have left on August 1, and another ten on November 4.

Flight itineraries discovered by their families show they left Minneapolis to take the winding trip back, through Dubai, Nairobi and Malindi, Kenya, where they’re believed to have entered Somalia by boat.

At least one mother has received a phone call from her son. He told her he was in Somalia, but would not tell her what he was doing there.

Watch the video report here.

UPDATE: Video report about a Minnesota man who blew himself up during a suicide attack in Somalia last month.