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Mission: Minnesotan Involved In Somalia Suicide Bombing

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – One of the suicide bombers in Saturday's bombing near the Somali capitol is an American from Minneapolis, according to the Somali Mission to the U.N.

Omar Jamal, the first secretary of the Somali Mission, said that the event marks the third time a Somali American from Minnesota has carried out suicide bombing in Somalia.

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