Somalia: My Encounter With American-Somali Jihadist in Nairobi

Many Somali refugees would die to have the supposedly good life abroad. However, some young men from the Diaspora are now returning to fight for Al Shabaab in Somalia, rated as one of the most dangerous countries on earth. Our investigative writer FATUMA NOOR recently met with some of these Mujahideens from the US, Canada and Sweden and this is her gripping report.

It all started when a mother called to inquire about the whereabouts of her 18-year-old son Nuno Ahmed whom she believed was in Nairobi and had plans of going to Mogadishu. "He left with his three friends and l have just found out that they are going back home," she told me when she called from her home in Minnesota, US. "I would rather he is arrested and stays in a Kenyan prison than let him go back to Mogadishu and die there," she says as if pleading for my help.

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