SOMALI SUICIDE BOMBER WAS RAISED IN THE USA

ONE OF THE SUICIDE BOMBERS IN SOMALIA WAS RAISED IN THE USA:

He had been an ambitious pre-med student at the University of Minnesota, hoping for an internship at the Mayo Clinic, before he disappeared in 2008. The audio recording, in which the speaker exhorts Westerners to join the fight, appears to reflect those qualities.

“Don’t just sit around, you know, and be, you know, a couch potato and just like, just chill all day,” the voice on the recording says. “Today jihad is what is most important. It’s not important that you become a doctor, or some sort of engineer.”

... During high school, he sold sneakers out of his locker to make money to help support his family. He lifted weights, and his friends called him “Bullethead.” He was elected president of the school’s Somali Student Association, and he later became a caseworker at a prestigious law firm. At the University of Minnesota, he majored in chemistry and held a part-time job as a security guard at the management school there.

“He was a highly motivated kid,” said a fellow student, an upperclassman who became his mentor. “He wanted to change lives.”

Why and when he turned to Islamic militancy is unclear.

... In Arabic class [IN COLLEGE], he started sitting in the back, not talking to anyone. “But then again, you’re not going to look at him and say his personality changed, he’s going to get radical and leave the country,” she said. “In college that’s when you find out who you are, so I didn’t think much of it then.”

... Speaking of Saturday’s suicide attack, the weak American-backed transitional government expressed sorrow over what it said was not just a loss of life, but of a vital human resource.

“It’s tragic, because we were hoping for this young man to come back and take part in the rebuilding of the country,” said Suldan A. Farahsed, a government spokesman. “We needed young people like that.”

HE WAS RAISED IN A FINE NEIGHBORHOOD, WITH ENOUGH MONEY, AND WENT TO FINE SCHOOLS. SO IT COULDN'T HAVE BEEN POVERTY OR A LACK OF EDUCATION THAT DROVE HIM TO BECOME A SUICIDER.

AND, ER... UM, IT'S FUNNY HOW HIS CONTACT WITH ARABIC CHANGED HIM... GEE: I WONDER WHY?

IT'S THE ISLAM, STUPID!

IF THEY WANT THEIR KIDS TO COME BACK AND REBUILD THEIR COUNTRY, THEN THEY SHOULD SEE TO IT THEY CONVERT TO ANYTHING BUT ISLAM BEFORE RETURNING!