04-16-2015, 03:59 PM
The Terrorists Next Door
Good to see these western terrorists being stopped before they have a chance to execute their plans at home.
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^ Abdirahman Sheik Mohamud, 23, of Columbus, Ohio left the United States in April 2014 for the purpose of training and fighting with terrorists in Syria, according to the Justice Department. He had become a naturalized citizen only two months earlier (he came to the US from Somalia as a toddler).
Once in Syria, terrorists trained him in shooting weapons, breaking into houses, using explosives and engaging in hand-to-hand combat, charging documents allege. A radical cleric then instructed him to return to the United States and commit an act of terrorism, the documents say.
Mohamud returned to the United States in June 2014 with a plan to attack a military facility or a U.S. prison, according to the charging documents. “Mohamud talked about doing something big in the United States,” the documents say. “He wanted to go to a military base in Texas and kill three or four American soldiers execution style.”
When Mohamud left for Syria, his brother was already there fighting with terrorists, but his brother has since been killed, according to the Justice Department.
Mohamud was initially arrested in February on state charges. A federal grand jury has now indicted him for attempting to provide and providing material support to terrorists, one count of attempting to provide and providing material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization, and one count of making false statements to the FBI. He faces up to 40 years in prison if convicted.
In the month of April alone, four other American citizens have been charged with similar offenses (two of them female): Joshua Ray Van Haften, Noelle Velentzas, Asia Siddiqui, and John T. Booker.
Refs:
http://abcnews.go.com/US/ohio-man-charge...d=30367493
http://heavy.com/news/2015/04/abdirahman...zam-hashi/
Good to see these western terrorists being stopped before they have a chance to execute their plans at home.
^ Abdirahman Sheik Mohamud, 23, of Columbus, Ohio left the United States in April 2014 for the purpose of training and fighting with terrorists in Syria, according to the Justice Department. He had become a naturalized citizen only two months earlier (he came to the US from Somalia as a toddler).
Once in Syria, terrorists trained him in shooting weapons, breaking into houses, using explosives and engaging in hand-to-hand combat, charging documents allege. A radical cleric then instructed him to return to the United States and commit an act of terrorism, the documents say.
Mohamud returned to the United States in June 2014 with a plan to attack a military facility or a U.S. prison, according to the charging documents. “Mohamud talked about doing something big in the United States,” the documents say. “He wanted to go to a military base in Texas and kill three or four American soldiers execution style.”
When Mohamud left for Syria, his brother was already there fighting with terrorists, but his brother has since been killed, according to the Justice Department.
Mohamud was initially arrested in February on state charges. A federal grand jury has now indicted him for attempting to provide and providing material support to terrorists, one count of attempting to provide and providing material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization, and one count of making false statements to the FBI. He faces up to 40 years in prison if convicted.
In the month of April alone, four other American citizens have been charged with similar offenses (two of them female): Joshua Ray Van Haften, Noelle Velentzas, Asia Siddiqui, and John T. Booker.
Refs:
http://abcnews.go.com/US/ohio-man-charge...d=30367493
http://heavy.com/news/2015/04/abdirahman...zam-hashi/