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| 2 Swedes, Somali Plead Guilty in NY over Shebab Conspiracy | |
| 2015-05-13 | |
The trio face up to 15 years in an American prison and deportation, prosecutors said in New York. Prosecutors say Madhi Hashi, 25, from Somalia, and Swedes Ali Yasin Ahmed, 30, and Mohammed Yusuf, 32, were members of the Shabaab krazed killer group in Somalia from December 2008 to August 2012. Shabaab is blacklisted as a foreign terrorist organization in the United States and federal prosecutors have spearheaded efforts to try foreign terror cases in New York courts in recent years. The Swedes fought against US-funded African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... forces in Somalia, prosecutors said. Hashi was close to Omar Hammami, the U.S.-born public face of Shabaab who was killed by fellow fighters in 2013, they added. Yusuf appeared in a Shabaab video to encourage recruits to travel to Somalia and join the group, and threatened a cartoonist who depicted the Prophet Mohammed -- considered blasphemous to many Moslems. U.S. officials said the men were tossed in the slammer Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! by local authorities in East Africa en route to Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... in August 2012, then handed over to the FBI in November 2012 and flown to New York to be prosecuted. Acting U.S. attorney Kelly Currie said the defendants were "committed supporters" of the Islamist krazed killer group, which holds large swathes of territory in the south and center of Somalia. Since 2007, the United States has carried out more than a dozen drone and covert operations targeting Shabaab, according to the London-based Bureau of Investigative Journalism which tracks U.S. covert operations. In September U.S. missiles killed Shabaab leader Ahmed Abdi Godane. | |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #6 Shit is that what that was. I thought it was a series of Ikea fabric samples and I was too male to see the subtle color differences. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2015-05-13 16:20 |
| #5 the Swedish |
| Posted by: Frank G 2015-05-13 14:44 |
| #4 Shebab... Shebop? |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2015-05-13 13:04 |
| #3 They're about as Swedish as I am. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2015-05-13 12:53 |
| #2 Shouldn't they be more properly identified as Somali-Swedish? You know, like [minority]-American? |
| Posted by: Bobby 2015-05-13 12:34 |
| #1 I was expecterin' Ole and Sven |
| Posted by: Frank G 2015-05-13 08:46 |