Testimony details pipeline from Minn. to Somalia

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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Kamal Said Hassan didn’t know what al-Shabab was when he agreed to join a jihad in Somalia in autumn 2007. Months later, the young man who had never picked up a gun was a foot soldier for the terror group in his homeland, practicing with assault rifles, participating in an ambush — and willing to kill in the name of Allah.

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