{"id":40265,"date":"2013-09-27T15:30:34","date_gmt":"2013-09-27T15:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ap_leaders_of_minnesota_somali_community_say_young_men_still_being_enticed_\/"},"modified":"2013-09-27T15:30:34","modified_gmt":"2013-09-27T15:30:34","slug":"ap_leaders_of_minnesota_somali_community_say_young_men_still_being_enticed_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40265","title":{"rendered":"(AP) Leaders of Minnesota Somali community say young men still being enticed to join terror group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leaders of the nation&#8217;s largest Somali community say some of their young men are still being enticed to join the terror group that has claimed responsibility for the deadly mall attack in Kenya, despite a concentrated effort to shut off what authorities call a &#8220;deadly pipeline&#8221; of men and money.<\/p>\n<p>Six years have passed since Somali-American fighters began leaving Minnesota to become part of al-Shabab. Now the Somali community is dismayed over reports that a few of its own might have been involved in the violence at the Westgate Mall in Nairobi.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One thing I know is the fear is growing,&#8221; said Abdirizak Bihi, whose nephew was among at least six men from Minnesota who have died in Somalia. More are presumed dead.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.therepublic.com\/view\/story\/9bb380707840409f907d450905b9d4ed\/US--Kenya-Mall-Attack-Americans\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leaders of the nation&#8217;s largest Somali community say some of their young men are still being enticed to join the terror group that has claimed responsibility for the deadly mall attack in Kenya, despite a concentrated effort to shut off<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40265\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,42,202,426,329,125,155,108,525,148,124,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-africa","category-islam","category-kenya","category-men","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture","category-somalia","category-terrorism","category-violence","category-young-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}