US Government Investigating Young People Joining Mideast Jihadists

Authorities are investigating men and women they believe have left the northern U.S. state of Minnesota to fight alongside extremists in Syria. U.S. Attorney for Minnesota, Andrew Luger, would not specify the number of individuals under scrutiny, but he said they represent a wide variety of backgrounds. Luger told VOA's Somali Service many of these young people are "disfranchised" from their families and communities, and they have lost "hope in their own...

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