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Laura Yuen

Minnesota's Somali-American community responds to Kenya mall attacks

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Leaders in the Minnesota Somali-American community condemned the attacks in a Nairobi, Kenya, shopping mall this weekend.

MPR News' Laura Yuen is looking into the rumors that one or two of the people involved in the mall attack are from Minnesota.

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On Sunday, a Twitter account purporting to represent the terror group al-Shabab released names of the alleged attackers. It said two of the men were from Minneapolis and St. Paul.

But veteran Somali journalists soon determined the Twitter account was fake. Al-Shabab — or at least an email address claiming to be al-Shabab — released a statement this morning essentially denying that it issued the tweet.

Yuen joins The Daily Circuit to talk about the latest developments.