On Monday Salah Osman Ahmed and Abdifatah Yusuf Isse appeared in court on Monday, indicted on charges of providing support to terrorists and conspiracy to "kill, kidnap, maim or injure" people in foreign countries.
Twenty one year old Abdifatah Isse, went to Somalia around 2007 to wage jihad with al Shabaab. Isse traveled to Somalia around the same time as 20 other Somalis from the Minneapolis area. Abdifatah Isse returned to the US earlier this year after fighting for al Shabaab but was arrested at the Seattle airport.
I expect to see more indictments in the future because earlier this year the FBI raided three money-transfer businesses in the Minneapolis area. The three money-transfer were Mustaqbal Express, also known as North American Money Transfer Inc.; Quran Express; and Aaran Financial. The FBI were looking for documents, books, records, ledgers and other materials "relating to the transfer of money, currency or funds" to Somalia, Eritrea, and other African countries.
Let's not forget about Sheik Abdirahman Ahmed of the Abubakar As-Saddique Islamic Center, the largest mosque in Minneapolis, who the FBI placed on the national no-fly list back in 2008. Even members of the Somali community have accused the imam and mosque of brainwashing these kids to go fight jihad in Somalia.
Star Tribune via Hotair
A federal grand jury had indicted Salah Osman Ahmed, 26, of Brooklyn Park, and Abdifatah Yusuf Isse, of Seattle, in February, but the indictments were kept sealed until Ahmed appeared Monday afternoon before Magistrate Judge Susan Richard Nelson.
Special agent E.K. Wilson confirmed Monday that the indictments of Isse and Ahmed are connected to a major federal investigation into the disappearance of up to 20 local men of Somali descent. It is believed that the Minnesota men may have been recruited by terrorists to return to their families' homeland to fight in the continuing civil war there. Since October, at least four have died there.[...]
The alleged time frame of Isse and Ahmed's involvement overlaps the period when several of the Twin Cities men disappeared. The first wave of young men to leave Minneapolis for Somalia began in early 2007. A second wave is believed to have left in the late summer and late fall of 2008.
According to the indictment, federal investigators allege the men "provided material support and resources, namely personnel, including themselves, knowing and intending that the material support and resources were to be used in preparation for and to carry out a conspiracy to kill, kidnap, maim or injure persons in a foreign country" from September 2007 through December 2008.
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"A federal grand jury had indicted Salah Osman Ahmed, 26, of Brooklyn Park, and Abdifatah Yusuf Isse, of Seattle, in February, but the indictments were kept sealed until Ahmed appeared Monday afternoon before Magistrate Judge Susan Richard Nelson".
I know for a fact that is not true isse wasn't even detained in February for get about indictments being sealed.....that is what i am talking about when people say or write things that are not true and others believe it shame on you
How do you know that Isse wasn't detained in February? Obviously Isse was detained since he's sitting in prison awaiting sentencing for helping al Shabaab.
You come here claiming something without any proof and then you dare shame me? NO! Shame on you! Don't bother posting anything without any proof.
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