Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Second Somali pleads guilty in al Shabaab terror case

Back in February a federal grand jury had indicted Salah Osman Ahmed, 26, of Brooklyn Park, and Abdifatah Yusuf Isse, of Seattle on charges of providing support to terrorists and conspiracy to "kill, kidnap, maim or injure" people in foreign countries.

Abdifatah Isse had plead guilty in exchange for lesser charges. It seems that Salah Ahmed is following in Isse's footsteps. According to the AP article, Ahmed could face between 5 to 15 years in prison. AP

MINNEAPOLIS — A Minnesota man who helped build a training camp for a group of Islamic militants in his homeland of Somalia told a federal judge Tuesday that he had attended secret meetings in Minneapolis before he went back to East Africa.

Salah Osman Ahmed, 26, pleaded guilty Tuesday in U.S. District Court to one count of providing material support to terrorists. Ahmed told U.S. District Judge James Rosenbaum he went to Somalia to fight Ethiopian soldiers but ended up working with al-Shabab, which the U.S. designated a terrorist organization in March 2008.
Could Ahmed had attended the "secret meetings" at the Abubakar As-Saddique Islamic Center, the largest mosque in Minneapolis? The imam of the mosque, Sheik Abdirahman Ahmed, was 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.

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