Minnesota man accused of conspiring to help Islamic State

Abdirizak Mohamed Warsame was arrested on Thursday night.

In March of this year, however, Warsame was interviewed by the New York Times and said he “had no clue” as to the motives behind Nur’s disappearance.

According to the complaint and documents filed in court, Warsame repeatedly attempted to obtain a telephone number or other contact information of ISIL members, including ISIL member H.K. In June 2014, Warsame specifically attempted to obtain this contact information so that he could pass it along to Y.J., who was attempting to travel from Turkey to Syria to join ISIL. The group of men allegedly watched propaganda videos with one another at a local mosque. Five others are scheduled to start their trials in May, while the 10th man made it to Syria.

The problem has become so persistent that in April, Andrew M. Lugar, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Minnesota, told reporters that the state appeared to have “a terror-recruiting problem”.

Warsame was deemed qualified for a federal defender after telling the judge he had no assets and his only income was a $14-an-hour job at a private security company, Securitas.

Warsame also tried to keep Omar from becoming depressed following his repeated failed attempts to leave the US over the last several years. The day before the man was to leave, Warsame accompanied him and two others to a library where the man printed out his itinerary.

A 10th terror suspect from Minnesota has been arrested after he allegedly helped extremists travel from the U.S.to join ISIS in Syria.

If that happened, he reasoned that he might not need to travel to Syria, Vinetsky wrote, “because ISIL would then be in Somalia”. The man who planned to fly to Turkey was stopped at Minneapolis-St.

Since 2007, U.S. prosecutors say, dozens of people from Minnesota, many young Somali-American men among them, have travelled or attempted to travel overseas to support Islamic State or al Shabaab, a Somalia-based militant group.

He was denied because of dependencies in his story, but investigators say he would have tried departing for Syria if the passport had been granted. Nine other men from Minnesota’s Somali-American community have been charged with conspiring to help ISIL, according to an affidavit from Federal Bureau of Investigation agent Vadym Vinetsky. A congressional report released in late September indicated that Minnesota had produced more would-be Islamic State fighters than any other state.

Rita Katz, director of SITE Intelligence Group, said Hassan used social media to help recruit a new class of jihadists, including some from Minnesota.