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Kenyan Man Pleads Guilty in U.S. to Supporting Terrorist Groups
2015-05-30
[AnNahar] A Kenyan man pleaded guilty to supporting three different terrorist organizations Thursday, admitting to providing money and recruits in Syria and Somalia, the U.S. Justice Department said.

The suspect, 27-year-old Mohammed Hussein Said, is accused of providing material support to "foreign terrorist organizations," according to a statement from the Justice Department.

Said, from Nairobi, Kenya pleaded guilty to sending money and recruits to Al-Qaeda, its affiliate al-Nusra
...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli sh-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ...
Front, and al-Qaeda-linked Shabaab holy warriors in Somalia.

He was indicted on 15 counts alongside Gufran Ahmed Mohammed, a naturalized U.S. citizen and resident of Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
The men were locked away
Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please!
together in Saudi Arabia last year and taken to Miami by U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation agents.

"Mohammed sent a series of wire transfers to Said for the purpose of supporting al-Shabaab
... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda...
," the Justice Department said.

"Said also served as a contact and recruiter of imported muscle from the United Kingdom and elsewhere traveling to Somalia to join al-Shabaab."

The pair also allegedly said they would support al-Qaeda and al-Nusra Front fighters by sending recruits to fight in Syria, according to the Justice Department.

The charges against the two men stemmed from a Miami-based investigation involving an FBI employee who enlisted the pair in a financial scheme to back the terrorist organizations, the Miami Herald newspaper reported earlier this year.

Said's sentencing is scheduled for August 14.

If convicted, he faces a maximum statutory sentence of 15 years in prison.
Posted by:trailing wife

#3  #1 So there is a second Kenyan doing this...

Yeah, that's Snark of the Day.
Posted by: SteveS   2015-05-30 20:52  

#2  LOL
Posted by: Matt   2015-05-30 20:42  

#1  So there is a second Kenyan doing this...
Posted by: USN, Ret.   2015-05-30 20:34  

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