As many as eight people will be charged with terrorism in Minnesota
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A federal judge in Minneapolis is set to unseal a roster of documents charging as many as eight new people with terrorism offenses related to the disappearance of young Somali-Americans to fight for a terrorist organization in Somalia, NPR has learned.
The documents, set to be released later Monday, will include indictments and criminal complaints against a handful of people the FBI believes helped some two dozen young Somali-Americans join the ranks of an Islamist militia in Somalia called al-Shabab. Government officials tell NPR that they will be revealing details of a more than yearlong investigation at a news briefing in Minneapolis later Monday.
People close to the investigation say it appears that people loosely linked to al-Shabab, which is on the State Department's list of terrorist organizations, had taken it upon themselves to radicalize, recruit and send young men from the Somali community in the Twin Cities to Somalia to fight for the group. Five of the Minnesotans who have gone have already died in the fighting.
Over the past couple of months, the FBI has arrested and charged six people with everything from material support for a terrorist organization to actual financing and recruitment for al-Shabab. With the unsealing of today's charging documents, there could be as many as 14 people implicated in the case.
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The documents, set to be released later Monday, will include indictments and criminal complaints against a handful of people the FBI believes helped some two dozen young Somali-Americans join the ranks of an Islamist militia in Somalia called al-Shabab. Government officials tell NPR that they will be revealing details of a more than yearlong investigation at a news briefing in Minneapolis later Monday.
People close to the investigation say it appears that people loosely linked to al-Shabab, which is on the State Department's list of terrorist organizations, had taken it upon themselves to radicalize, recruit and send young men from the Somali community in the Twin Cities to Somalia to fight for the group. Five of the Minnesotans who have gone have already died in the fighting.
Over the past couple of months, the FBI has arrested and charged six people with everything from material support for a terrorist organization to actual financing and recruitment for al-Shabab. With the unsealing of today's charging documents, there could be as many as 14 people implicated in the case.
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