Minneapolis ? A 20-year-old man believed by his family to have been killed in his native Somalia “had no clue” what the country was really like when he left his home in Minneapolis to fight there, his mother said Sunday.

Abayte Ahmed said through an interpreter Sunday that she and her husband, who live in Minneapolis, identified their son, Jamal Bana, in a photo on a Somali news Web site, Dayniile.com, showing a dead body in Somalia. Bana’s father saw the photo Saturday morning during his daily check of news reports.

Bana was among a group of up to 20 young Somali men who left Minneapolis in recent years — disappearances under investigation by the FBI out of suspicion they were recruited by a radical Islamic terror group to fight in their homeland. Ahmed said her son disappeared from Minneapolis on Nov. 4.