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Somali-Americans Divided Over How To Prevent Youth From Joining ISIS

By Laura Yuen
Published August 24, 2015 at 12:26 PM PDT

More Somali-American young people have disappeared from the Twin Cities, and community leaders fear the missing have joined the self-declared Islamic State. The news comes as the Somali community remains divided on how to stem the flow of potential fighters for battlefields in Syria.

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Laura Yuen
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