Some young Somali-Americans left their inner-city neighborhood in Minneapolis to fight in Somalia. At right, a drill by Shabaab fighters near Mogadishu. Nicole Bengiveno/The New York Times; Mustafa Abdi/Agence France-Press — Getty ImagesA Call To Jihad From Somalia, Answered In The U.S. -- New York Times
MINNEAPOLIS — The Carlson School of Management rises from the asphalt like a monument to capitalist ambition. Stock prices race across an electronic ticker near a sleek entrance and the atrium soars skyward, as if lifting the aspirations of its students. The school’s plucky motto is “Nowhere but here.”
For a group of students who often met at the school, on the University of Minnesota campus, those words seemed especially fitting. They had fled Somalia as small boys, escaping a catastrophic civil war. They came of age as refugees in Minneapolis, embracing basketball and the prom, hip-hop and the Mall of America. By the time they reached college, their dreams seemed within grasp: one planned to become a doctor; another, an entrepreneur.
But last year, in a study room on the first floor of Carlson, the men turned their energies to a different enterprise.
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