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In Seattle, Local Somalis Struggle to Understand Why Young Men Would Return to a Country They Never Knew

By Nina Shapiro
Seattle Weekly | December 21, 2009
23-year-old Abdifatah Yusuf Isse's family thought he was visiting his girlfriend in Minneapolis during an extended break from studying economics at Eastern Washington University. In fact, he revealed, he was calling from Somalia.
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