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Another Minnesota man pleads guilty in Islamic State case
2016-04-26
[IsraelTimes] 21-year-old student joins five other suspects in accepting a plea deal, admits to conspiring to provide material support to terror group

Another Minnesota man pleaded guilty Monday to conspiring to provide material support to the Islamic State
...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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group.

Hamza Naj Ahmed, 21, changed his plea in US District Court in Minneapolis. He had been scheduled to go on trial with three other men next month.

Ahmed’s plea comes 11 days after another defendant, Adnan Abdihamid Farah, accepted a plea deal, the Star Tribune reported.

Ahmed pleaded guilty to conspiracy to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization and to financial aid fraud. The college student was accused of using a $2,700 school loan to try to join the Islamic State.

Prosecutors will move to dismiss the remaining charges, including conspiracy to murder outside the United States, at Ahmed’s sentencing, for which a date has not been set. He faces up to 15 years in prison on the conspiracy to provide material support charge and up to five years on the financial aid fraud charge but avoided a possible life sentence with his plea.

Six defendants have now pleaded guilty. A tenth man is on the lam, believed to be in Syria.

The three remaining defendants -- Guled Ali Omar, Mohammed Abdihamid Farah and Abdirahman Yasin Daud -- have pleaded not guilty
"Wudn't me."
and are scheduled to go on trial May 9.

The FBI has said about a dozen people have left Minnesota to join turban groups fighting in Syria in recent years. In addition, since 2007 more than 22 men have joined al-Shabaab
... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda...
in Somalia.
Posted by:trailing wife

#8  Oasis el Wobegon, where the wymens are in bags and all the children hate the jooooooooooz.
Posted by: Shipman   2016-04-26 17:17  

#7  First I mess up with the nim, then I confuse "lose" with "loose" probably because of my arthritic fingers not to mention an arthritic mind. I should just quit and drink my damn coffee.

FIFY Cs.

I got the same problems and that always seems to work 8^)
Posted by: AlanC   2016-04-26 15:50  

#6  First I mess up with the nim, then I confuse "lose" with "loose" probably because of my arthritic fingers not to mention an arthritic mind. I should just quit and drink my damn coffee.
Posted by: Canuckistan sniper   2016-04-26 15:14  

#5  How about strip their clothes and turn them loose in a Minnesota winter?
Posted by: Canuckistan sniper   2016-04-26 15:12  

#4  How about strip their citizenship then send them to Syria?
Posted by: gorb   2016-04-26 13:22  

#3  I'm kinda partial to stripping citizenship after the jail term. But that's just me.
Posted by: Pappy   2016-04-26 13:19  

#2  Charges downgraded from 'conspiracy to commit murder' to 'financial aid fraud'? Where was TREASON?

Oh, he isn't an American? Just enjoying his tax funded stay here as a student, telling stories about his friends and fantasy life?
Posted by: Skidmark   2016-04-26 10:28  

#1  Trump is an idiot!!!
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2016-04-26 02:47  

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