Abu-Bakar Al Saddique Mosque (Formerly Shafi'e Mosque)
Minneapolis, MN

In sworn testimony on March 8, 2009 Osman Ahmed, the uncle of one of several missing Minnesota Somali youth, linked the Abu-Bakar Al Saddique mosque to the recruitment of young men to the Somali terrorist organization al-Shabaab.[1] According to Ahmed, the young men who left for Somalia had all studied at the center since 1998 and had "no perception of Somalia except the one that was formed in their mind by their teachers at the Abu-Bakar Center."[2]

See: US v. Isse, Abdifatah Yusuf

[1] U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, "Statement of Osman Ahmed On Behalf of the Victims Families Whose Children have Been Recruited And Kidnapped To Somalia," Minneapolis, Minnesota, March 8, 2009, http://hsgac.senate.gov/public/_files/031109Ahmed.pdf.

[2] U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, "Statement of Osman Ahmed On Behalf of the Victims Families Whose Children have Been Recruited And Kidnapped To Somalia," Minneapolis, Minnesota, March 8, 2009, http://hsgac.senate.gov/public/_files/031109Ahmed.pdf.