WASHINGTON - A Somalian American man, who died in what is believed to be the first suicide bombing carried out by a U.S. citizen, appears to have been "radicalized" in the United States, FBI Director Robert Mueller said yesterday.
The suspect, identified in news reports as Shirwa Ahmed of Minnesota, died in the bombing in northern Somalia in October. He was recruited while in the United States, and other Somalian Americans may have been "radicalized" as well, Mueller said.
The recruiting in the United States "raises the question of whether these young men will one day come home, and, if so, what they might undertake here," Mueller said in a speech to the Council on Foreign Relations, a research group.
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