Submitted by: Doris Parker
Latest Slain American ISIS The Third From Single Minnesota High School
September 1, 2014
The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has been very
successful in recruiting Americans and other Westerners to their cause,
but the lure to join jihadist movements seems particularly popular in
metro Minneapolis.
Earlier
this week, American Douglas McAuthur McCain was identified as an ISIS
member slain in Syria. Today, another American slain in the same battle
was ID’d as Abdirahmaan Muhumed, who grew up in the same town and went to high school with McCain.
Coincidence? Maybe not. McCain’s best friend in high school was Troy Kastigar, who himself was slain in Somalia in 2009, after going there to join al-Shabaab, another jihadist faction.
Minnesota
Public Radio suggested in a past report in June, which focused on the
now slain Muhumed, that this may be the tip of the iceberg, sayingthat at least 15 Somali-Americans from the Twin Cities were active members of ISIS at the time.
Muhumed
was one such Somali-American, but neither McCain nor Kastigar were.
Rather they grew up with Somali classmates and friends, and became
sympathetic to some of the same causes.
The US claims to have identified nearly a dozen American
ISIS fighters by name, but that’s a small fraction of the hundreds
believed to be there right now. The US and other nations are struggling
to determine even how many have gone to join ISIS, let alone who most of
them are.
ISIS ability to recruit seems to be far exceeding official
reckoning, as officials try to pass them off as “valueless evil” with
no agenda at all, and yet the group continues to find growing numbers of
recruits in some of the least likely places.
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