Post by Logan on May 9, 2016 9:00:40 GMT -6
A Minneapolis courtroom was packed with family and advocates Monday morning for the opening moments in one of the nation’s most important terror recruitment cases — the federal trial of three Twin Cities men accused of conspiracy to support the terrorist group ISIL and commit murder abroad.
The three were caught up in a yearlong FBI investigation in the Twin Cities that produced one of the government’s most complex terror recruitment prosecutions.
Abdirahman Yasin Daud, 22; Mohamed Abdihamid Farah, 22; and Guled Ali Omar, 21; are the final three remaining defendants from a circle of 10 young Somali-American men charged last year after the intensive FBI investigation. Six have pleaded guilty and another is a fugitive who reportedly made it into Syria to fight for the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant.
The most serious charge, conspiracy to murder outside the United States, carries the possibility of life in prison.
Read more: www.startribune.com/minnesota-s-biggest-anti-terrorism-trial-begins-today/378636441/
The three were caught up in a yearlong FBI investigation in the Twin Cities that produced one of the government’s most complex terror recruitment prosecutions.
Abdirahman Yasin Daud, 22; Mohamed Abdihamid Farah, 22; and Guled Ali Omar, 21; are the final three remaining defendants from a circle of 10 young Somali-American men charged last year after the intensive FBI investigation. Six have pleaded guilty and another is a fugitive who reportedly made it into Syria to fight for the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant.
The most serious charge, conspiracy to murder outside the United States, carries the possibility of life in prison.
Read more: www.startribune.com/minnesota-s-biggest-anti-terrorism-trial-begins-today/378636441/