Colin Freeze
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The travels of a first-year female University of Toronto student have spawned an international investigation amid fears she is now being groomed by a terrorist group that is targeting her high-profile relative – the Prime Minister of Somalia's Transitional Federal Government.Canadian Security Intelligence Service officers have spent weeks probing the travels of the 19-year-old, who is said to have become radicalized in Toronto prior to leaving in January for Mogadishu with a female friend. She emailed her family after the fact to say that she had enrolled in a school in the capital of the war-torn country.
The young Toronto woman, who has not been identified and faces no criminal allegations of wrongdoing, is understood to be one of Prime Minister Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed’s nieces. Mr. Mohamed became prime minister last year after returning to Somalia from Buffalo, New York.
News of the case amounts to the second time in a week that a recent University of Toronto student of Somali descent has been publicly branded a security threat for embarking on travels to Africa. In both cases, authorities fear that overseas journeys were undertaken with the intent on joining al-Shabab, the al-Qaeda-linked rebel group that is now holding sway over much of the country.Continued
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