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Home Front: WoT
US terror suspect to be released to halfway house
2015-01-28
[Ynet] A man accused of trying to travel to Syria to join the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group will be released to a halfway house while his case is pending.

Chief US District Judge Michael Davis said Tuesday that Abdullahi Yusuf will have limited hours outside the house and will be monitored.

The 18-year-old is charged with conspiracy to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization. Charges say FBI agents stopped him at the Minneapolis airport last year as he attempted to leave the US for Turkey.

Yusuf's attorneys asked that he be freed and allowed to participate in courses promoting civic involvement. Davis ordered probation officials to talk with program designers to explore that as an option.
Posted by:trailing wife

#2  I have a half-way house for him. How about half-way between FL400 and my house?
Posted by: Otto Ometh3635   2015-01-28 13:40  

#1  There IS a solution to a multinational, multicultural, multigenerational war. Unsavory though it might be, it does not engage halfway measures.
Posted by: Skidmark   2015-01-28 09:29  

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