	Name: Burhan Hassan • 17 years old when he left for Somalia • Senior at Roosevelt High School in Minneapolis • Allegedly left for Somalia on Nov. 4, 2008 • Killed June 5 in Mogadishu. Family members say he was killed by members of Al-Shabaab for wanting to escape.
	Name: Shirwa Ahmed • 27 years old at time of death • Allegedly blew himself up in Somalia in one of several suicide attacks on Oct. 29, 2008. • 2000 graduate of Roosevelt High School • Buried in Burnsville in December 2008
	Name: Mohamoud Hassan • Engineering student at the University of Minnesota • Allegedly left for Somalia in November 2008 • Classmates voted him 'most friendly' out of the graduating seniors at Roosevelt High School in 2006 • Reportedly killed in Mogadishu on September 4
	Name: Abdisalam Ali • 19 years old • University of Minnesota student • Allegedly left for Somalia in Novemeber 2008
	Name: Mustafa Ali Salat • 18 years old • St. Paul resident • Allegedly left for Somalia in August 2008 • Would have been a senior at Harding High School in St. Paul • Indicted in August 2009 on terror-related charges
	Name: Jamal Bana • 19 years old • Studied engineering at Minneapolis Community and Technical College and Normandale College • Allegedly left for Somalia in November 2008 • Family members learned on July 11 he was killed in Mogadishu.
	Name: Zakaria Maruf • Went by the name Abu Muslim • Graduated from Edison High School in 2000 • Left for Somalia in early 2008 • Friends say he was in a Somali street gang in the 1990s but left the group several years ago after he became religious • Told a Somali radio station in early 2009 that none of the missing men were coerced • Reportedly killed July 11 in Mogadishu. • Indicted in August 2009 on terror-related charges, a month after his reported death
	Name:Mohamed Abdullahi Hassan • Went by the nickname "Miski" • Left Minneapolis for Somalia at the age of 17 in August 2008. He had one year left before graduating from Roosevelt High School • His mother, in an interview, said she does not believe he is fighting. He told his family that he got married in Somalia • A mosque volunteer said Hassan and another friend tried to buy plane tickets to Africa a few months before they departed, but she was able to thwart those early plans. • Indicted in August 2009 on terror-related charges
	Name: Ahmed Ali Omar • Also knows as "Mustafa" • Left for Somalia in late December 2007 with the first wave of would-be fighters from Minnesota • Graduated from Edison High School in Minneapolis in 2004 • Reached by phone, he told MPR News in July 2009 that no one had any proof he was fighting, but would not say why he was in Somalia • Indicted in August 2009 on terror-related charges • Authorities say he helped persuade four other Twin Cities men to fight in Somalia from September to December 2007
	Name: Troy Kastigar • 28 years old, from Minneapolis • Left for Somalia in November 2008 • Authorities think he was one of 20 men from Minnesota who left to join the war in the east African country. • Unlike his peers, Kastigar was not Somali, but a Muslim convert • His family received information during the second week of September that he had died, according to family friends
	Name: Khalid Mohamud Abshir • Also known as "Abdul" or "Abdullah" • Allegedly left for Somalia in December 2007 • Worked at a car-rental company • Indicted in August 2009 on terror-related charges. • Authorities say he helped persuade four other Twin Cities men to fight in Somalia from September 2007 to January 2008

Returned from Somalia:

	Name: Salah Osman Ahmed • Left for Somalia in December 2007 • 26 years old; worked as a security guard • According to a friend, Ahmed left Al-Shabaab shortly after arriving in Somalia after deciding he didn't want to fight. He sought medical treatment for allergies in Kismayo and eventually returned to the Twin Cities, where he worked as a security guard. He lived in New Brighton. • Attended North Hennepin Community College in pursuit of an associate's degree. A classmate said Ahmed wanted to become an X-ray technician • Indicted in February 2009 on charges of supporting terrorism and conspiring to kill people abroad • Pleaded guilty to one count of providing material support to terrorists • Held at the Anoka County jail
	Name: Abdifatah Yusuf Isse • Left for Somalia in December 2007. Court documents say he wanted to fight the Ethiopian troops who invaded Somalia. • 25 years old • According to court documents, Isse received weapons instruction and lived in Al-Shabaab houses shortly after arriving in Somalia. He eventually returned to the United States. An acquaintance said he left with Salah Ahmed, while the other Minnesota fighters remained with Al-Shabaab. • Arrested in February 2009 at the Seattle-Tacoma airport while trying to travel to Tanzania for an internship • Pleaded guilty in April 2009 of providing material support to terrorism; now cooperating with authorities • Held at the Washington County jail
	Name: Kamal Said Hassan • Left for the al-Shabaab training camp in Somalia in November 2007 • 24 years old; Plymouth resident • Pleaded guilty to providing material support to terrorists and to a foreign terrorist organization. Hassan continued to fight and "follow the orders of al-Shabaab in Somalia" after leaving the training camp, according to court documents and testimony. Unlike two of his peers who left shortly after arriving at the camp, a court document suggests Hassan remained active with al-Shabaab until about August 2008 - several months after the U.S. declared the group a terrorist organization. • Attended Minneapolis Community and Technical College in 2006 • His Facebook profile page lists him as married, Muslim, and a fan of the 1990s TV series "Fresh Prince of Bel-Air." He also belonged to the group "THE SUFFERING SOMALIS IN MOGADISHO," a page dedicated to the mistreatment of Somalis under the occupation of Ethiopian soldiers beginning in 2006.

Others charged in the case:

	Name:Mahamud Said Omar Authorities believe he helped facilitate the departures of nine Minnesota men to Somalia to fight. Omar is accused of helping pay for their trips and assault rifles. He was indicted on terror-related charges in August 2009. 43 years old at time of his arrest by Dutch authorities in November 2009 in the Netherlands Worked as a janitor at the Abubakar As-Saddique mosque in Minneapolis. His siblings say Omar was not an extremist and was too poor to finance terrorism. They said the divorced father of three moved to the Netherlands in late 2008 after failing to find work in the U.S. U.S. authorities are seeking his extradition.
	Name: Omer Abdi Mohamed Authorities say he helped recruit six young men to fight in Somalia Went by the nickname "Galeyr" 24 years old Attended Roosevelt High School in Minneapolis; worked as an employment counselor until he was laid off in fall 2009. Indicted in November 2009 on terror-related charges; pleaded not guilty.
	Name: Cabdulaahi Ahmed Faarax Authorities say he participated in political discussions at a Minneapolis mosque in the fall of 2007 to phone "co-conspirators" in Somalia about leaving to fight the Ethiopian there; Faarax was charged in October 2009 with conspiring to kill others abroad. Believed to have fought in Somalia in 2007 before returning to Minnesota. Authorities say he told others that he experienced "true brotherhood" while fighting jihad. Well-liked cab driver and recreational soccer player known by the nickname "Adaki"; 32 years old Spotted Oct. 8 at the U.S.-Mexico border crossing; friends and acquaintances have heard he eventually made it to Kenya.
	Name: Abdiweli Yassin Isse Authorities believe he raised money to buy plane tickets for other young men to travel from Minnesota to Somalia. He allegedly described the fighting in their homeland was "a good jihad." Charged in October 2009 with conspiring to kill others abroad According to a court document and an interview with a friend, Isse planned to go to Somalia in 2007, but was unable to get the appropriate travel documents. Worked at a money-wiring service and was known by the nickname "Farhan." Spotted Oct. 8 at the U.S.-Mexico border crossing; authorities believe he is outside of the U.S.