Saturday, June 11, 2011

Somalis facing terror charges now number 20

Article by: JAMES WALSH , Star Tribune

A former Eden Prairie resident is arrested for allegedly supplying money and personnel to terror group Al-Shabab.
A former Eden Prairie resident became the 20th person of Somali descent charged in Minnesota with supporting terrorism.

Ahmed Hussein Mahamud, 26, was arrested in Columbus, Ohio, on Thursday morning and made his first appearance in federal court for the Southern District of Ohio. By Thursday afternoon, he was on his way back to Minnesota to face charges that he provided money and personnel to Al-Shabab, a group defined as a terrorist organization by the U.S. State Department.

A grand jury indictment, filed Tuesday but sealed until Mahamud's arrest, offers little detail. It alleges that he "unlawfully and knowingly" conspired with others to provide support to Al-Shabab and its efforts to "murder, kidnap, maim or injure persons in a foreign country."

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