FBI.gov - Minneapolis - Press Release: "FBI ANNOUNCES IDENTITY OF TRANSITIONAL GOVERNMENT CHECKPOINT SUICIDE BOMBER" (SNIPPET: "One suicide bomber has been positively identified as Farah Mohamed Beledi." SNIPPET: "Beledi, 27 years old, was indicted by a Federal Grand Jury in Minneapolis in July 2010. He is one of thirteen men from the Twin Cities who have been charged with terrorism offenses for traveling to Somalia and joining the designated terrorist organization al-Shabaab. Beledi was charged with, among other things, conspiring to and providing material support to al-Shabaab, and conspiring to kill, kidnap, maim and injure persons abroad. He is believed to have left Minnesota in October 2009 for Somalia. The men are part of an ongoing FBI investigation into al-Shabaab's recruitment and radicalization of young Somali men in the Twin Cities.") (June 9, 2011) (Read More...)
INVESTIGATIVE PROJECT.org - For The Record - The IPT Blog: "CANADIAN AL-SHABAAB MILITANT KILLED IN MOGADISHU" (SNIPPET: "Somali forces killed a Canadian al-Shabaab fighter Wednesday in a gun fight that ensued after he and other man refused to obey orders to stop at a military checkpoint in the capital of Mogadishu. A source from the Somali-Canadian community told the National Post that a cell phone found on the body contained text messages and call logs reflecting contact with family in Toronto. A Somali army official said that a Canadian passport on the body identified the man as Muhan Jeans. Jeans, reported a Somali radio station, is known as "Abdurrahman the Canadian" and is said to be an al-Shabaab commander in charge of the Juba region, near the Kenyan border. Canadian security authorities are currently investigating the disappearance of 20 Canadians thought to have traveled to Somalia to join the al-Qaida linked militant Islamist group. In March, Canadian police arrested 25-year-old Mohamed Hersi at a Toronto airport before he left for Somalia and charged him with plotting to join al-Shabaab.") (June 9, 2011, 10:00 pm) (Read More...)
Mohammed, a native of the Comoros Islands, was carrying sophisticated weapons, maps, other operational materials and tens of thousands of dollars when he was killed, Information Minister Abdulkareem Jama said.
Family pictures and correspondence with other militants were also found, he said. The money, equipment and personal effects made officials take a second look at the death, he said.
Contact info. Hopefully this intel will lead to the deaths of his cohorts.
He was buried and then exhumed.
“We buried him,” he said. “But soon after checking his documents, (we) exhumed his body and took his pictures and DNA. Then we had learned that he was the man wanted by the U.S. authorities.”