Somalian Suicide Bomber Returned Home for his Burial...in Minnesota

Minnesota is fast becoming the new Michigan.

One of the five men suspected to be a suicide bomber who killed himself and 29 others last October in Somalia, was buried Wednesday at a Burnsville Cemetery.

FOX 9 has learned DNA tests have confirmed Shirwa Ahmed was one of five suicide bombers who killed himself and 29 others last October in northern Somalia.

He is also a Minnesotan and a naturalized U.S. citizen.

Shirwa Ahmed, 27, was given a traditional Muslim burial.

Community activist Omar Jamal is one of the few who will.

“Honestly I look at him seriously as a victim and not as a criminal, I think of him as a young victim," says Jamal.

U.S. intelligence is investigating whether Ahmed and the other missing Minnesota Somali’s attended terrorist training camps.

There, lessons are given on explosives and automatic weapons and some of the terrorists seem to speak, with American accents.

It figures. Jmal thinks he's a "victim". Which begs two questions. One, a victim of what? And two, if he's a victim, then what are the 29 people he murdered?

We reported on the strange disappearance of Minnesota Muslims last week:

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.