Two Indicted In Minnesota on Somali Terror Charges
July 13, 2009 by national
Filed under Incident Reports
A federal grand jury in Minneapolis indicted two men on Monday on charges of conspiracy and aiding terrorism overseas, according to court papers.
The Minneapolis Star Tribune said on Monday that one of the men, Salah Osman Ahmed, 26, is of Somali descent and lived in a Minneapolis suburb.
According to the indictment, Ahmed and Abdifatah Yusuf Isse were charged with two counts of providing material support to terrorists “and resources, namely personnel including themselves,” and conspiring “to kill, kidnap, and maim and injure persons outside of the United States” between September 2007 and December 2008.
Ahmed was also charged with two counts of making false statements about a flight he took from Minneapolis to Amsterdam on December 6, 2007, and bound for Somalia.
Ahmed “stated that he did not know anyone on his flight to Somalia in December 2007 when, in fact, he traveled to Somalia together with an individual he knew so that they could fight jihad in Somalia,” the indictment said.
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