December 31, 2009
Rahm at Terror Free Somalia goes national
It was just two weeks ago we noted that Jawa buddy Rahm, who operates the Terror Free Somalia blog, got a solid write-up in the Seattle Weekly based on his exclusive reporting on the September suicide bombing conducted by Seattle resident Omar Mohamud. He also got plugs from the Seattle Times and local TV station KOMO.
But now we hope he remembers us little bloggers now that he's gone national in yesterday's Christian Science Monitor in an article, "A US pipeline for jihad in Somalia?":
In Somali grocery stores and cafes in Tukwila, talk over cups of cardamom tea often centers on the politics of their homeland. The community’s deep Muslim faith is evident in the decorated prayer rugs in the back of restaurants that serve traditional goat and spaghetti and the mosque donation boxes at markets. It’s a closed community still getting comfortable with America.“They live here, but they don’t live here physically. You won’t see them at Seahawks games,” says Abdirahman Warsame, who came to the US in 1996 and now works as a building security manager just outside Seattle.
Two years ago, Mr. Warsame began blogging about the increased terrorist attacks in Somalia. Recently he republished an article reporting that a Somali man from the Seattle area died in a Sept. 17 suicide attack on African Union peacekeepers that killed 21 people. The FBI would not confirm the perpetrator’s identity but did not dispute local reports that a Seattle resident may have been the latest American to die for Al Shabab’s cause.
CSM even gave him some link luv in the article. I would also note that Rahm is posting a couple hundred times a month, which rivals or surpasses what we do here as a team at MPJ. If you want to know what's going on in Somalia, he's the guy you want to go to.
Congrats, Rahm!
