<--A simple Islamic arch in silhouette is near the grave where Shirwa
Ahmed is buried at the Garden of Eden Cemetery in Burnsville,
Minnesota.
The Star Tribune pulls out all the stops to poison the grand jury pool investigating the Lost Boys of Minneapolis with this article on the one that blew himself up outside the Ethiopian Embassy in Hargeisa.
sniff-sniff. Poor misunderstood youth. (Tell that to the families of the 20 people he killed.)
At midmorning on Oct. 29, 2008, a car packed with explosives smashed through the doors of the Ethiopian Embassy in Hargeisa, capital of the breakaway region of Somaliland, killing 20 people. At the same time, other suicide bombers hit targets across northern Somalia, including two bomb-filled vehicles that plowed into an intelligence headquarters in the port town of Bosasso.
In all, 28 people were killed and dozens more injured. Within hours, Somali officials asked the FBI to send teams to comb the blast sites.
In Bosasso, investigators were surprised to discover the fragmented remains of an American.
They had found what was left of Shirwa Ahmed.
Read it all.
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