...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
A federal jury in Minneapolis convicted 21-year-old Guled Ali Omar, 22-year-old Abdirahman Yasin Daud and 22-year-old Mohammed Abdihamid Farah of conspiracy to commit murder overseas on Friday, the most serious charge they faced. They now face possible life sentence in prison.
The three are among 10 young men accused in the conspiracy. Six have pleaded guilty to one count each of conspiracy to support a foreign terrorist organization. A seventh, 22-year-old Abdi Nur, is on the lam, and believed to be in Syria.
Prosecutors built their case largely on recordings made by a friend of the men who became a paid informant. Testimony at trial showed he was paid roughly $119,000.
But defense attorneys argued that comments on the records were youthful bluster.
Prosecutors also argued that the trio had made 'exceptionally persistent efforts over a 14-month period' to join ISIS, reported Sky. They said that the trio knew they would be killing people once they arrived in Syria.
The young men were detained last April in San Diego, after they went with an FBI informant to buy fake passports.
Family and friends have protested what they call entrapment, and said most of the defendants were in their teens when they were caught up in the Islamic State's social media recruitment campaign.
Defense attorneys said that Farah's desire to leave the country was motivated by humanitarian aims.
Farah was one of four co-defendants stopped by FBI agents in New York as they were tried to board planes en route to
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
, according to the Star Tribune. Audio recordings also caught him defending an ISIS video that captured a Jordanian pilot being burned alive, as well as saying he would kill an FBI agent,
Daud was born in a refugee camp in Kenya and arrived in Minnesota aged 9. Last April, he was tossed in the calaboose
Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un!
with Farah driving to Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, allegedly in an effort to obtain fake passports to travel to Mexico.
Omar is one of 13 siblings who, as a teen, led religious studies groups that included discussions about the Syrian civil war, according to the Tribune.
In 2007 his older brother left Minnesota to fight for Somali bad boy group al-Shabaab
... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord...
. While Omar himself had made two unsuccessful attempts to leave the U.S.
More than a dozen people have left Minnesota to join jihadist groups in Syria in recent years, said the FBI.
The Minnesota case was the third ISIS-related case to trial nationwide, according to CBS. It is unique because of the sheer number of people personally connected to each other, rather than being recruited online.