( CNN ) -- A suicide bomber who carried out an attack in Somalia this weekend was an American citizen of Somali descent , a website associated with the Al-Shabaab Islamist movement claimed Sunday . The website named the bombers as Aden al-Ansari and Cabdi Salaam al-Muhajir , and posted what it said was an audio interview with al-Muhajir speaking American-accented English . The speaker urges his `` brothers and sisters '' to `` do jihad '' in America , Canada , England , `` anywhere in Europe , in Asia , in Africa , in China , in Australia , anywhere you find kuffar , '' a derogatory term for non-Muslims . The African Union force trying to establish order in Somalia said there had been an attack Saturday involving two suicide bombers in the capital Mogadishu , but said AU troops `` beat off '' the attack by `` al-Qaeda linked terrorists . '' Al-Shabaab is associated with al Qaeda and is considered a terrorist organization by the United States . The African Union military spokesman in the country did not immediately respond to a CNN question about the identity of the bombers or whether any AU troops were injured . Omar Jamal , a Somali diplomat at the United Nations , identified the person who made the audio recordings as Abdisalam Ali of Minneapolis . He told CNN that friends of Ali had listened to the messages in English and Somali and were `` convinced it is him . '' The discrepancy in names may mean that the name released by Al-Shabaab is a nom de guerre . Jamal said Abdisalam left Minneapolis on November 4 , 2008 , with another man , Burhan Hassan , who has since been killed . Kyle Loven , an FBI spokesman in Minneapolis , told CNN , `` We 're aware of the reporting but not able to confirm any IDs at this time . '' In the Somali-language interview that Al-Shabaab released , the speaker says he has been fighting with the group for two years and killed `` many infidels '' with his own hands . Jamal said this weekend 's bombing was the third time a Minnesota Somali-American had carried out a suicide bombing in Somalia . The previous two were Shirwa Ahmed , 27 , who was the first confirmed American suicide bomber in U.S. history , and Farah Mohamed Beledi , also 27 . Ahmed killed himself and 29 others in the fall of 2008 . The FBI identified Beledi as one of two suicide bombers responsible for killing two African Union soldiers in Somalia in May . In recent years , approximately 20 young men -- most of them Somali-Americans -- have traveled from the Minneapolis area to Somalia to train with Al-Shabaab , and a number of them have gone on to fight with the terrorist organization , U.S. officials said . And this month , a federal jury found two Minnesota women guilty of raising money for Al-Shabaab . According to the federal indictment , Amina Farah Ali , 35 , and Hawo Mohamed Hassan , 64 , of Rochester , Minnesota , solicited funds in ways that included going door-to-door `` under the false pretense that the funds were for the poor and needy . '' The two were charged with one count of conspiracy to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization . Ali was also found guilty of 12 other counts including sending more than $ 8,000 in 2008 and 2009 . CNN 's Carol Cratty contributed to this report .
A website associated with Al-Shabaab posts an audio interview with the alleged bomber . The man says he was inspired by al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, who is believed to be hiding in Somalia. He would be at least the third Minnesota Somali-American to blow himself up in Somalia . In the Somali-language version , he boasts of having killed many infidels .