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Mpls. Man Charged with Making Threats in Islamic State Group Case
2015-04-26
[KSTP] A Minneapolis man is accused of threatening federal agents, the U.S. Attorney in Minnesota, and a criminal informant who assisted in the arrest of six men accused of trying 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....
terrorist group in Syria.

Mahamed Abukar Said was charged in federal court Friday after posting a series threats on his Twitter page, according to an FBI affidavit.

The tweets have since been deleted but Sherlocks used screen grabs to capture the threatening messages. They claim to have linked the Twitter account to Said using past tweets, a phone number and information from the Division of Vehicle Services.

One tweet said, "Ima whack that US attorney general."
One tweet said, "Ima whack that US attorney general." Investigators believe he meant either U.S. Attorney Andrew Luger, who held a presser about the arrests earlier in the week, or the assistant U.S. Attorney who is prosecuting the case.

Another tweet said, "The feds are getting two choices. Either they gon free my bros or they gon have a massacre happen then they gon take me too."

Said is also accused of trying to retaliate against an informant who aided the federal investigation.

Said's attorney did not return a call for comment Friday night. Said will be detained until a hearing next Wednesday.

The arrests of the six men, all of Somali descent, created tension in Minnesota's Somali community, the largest in the United States. Since 2007, more than 22 young Somali men have traveled from Minnesota to Somalia to join the Death Eater group al-Shabaab
... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda...
. Authorities have also said a handful of Minnesota residents have traveled to Syria to fight with bandidos bully boyz in the past year.

The six men were charged after a 10-month investigation that was aided by recordings made by a man who once planned to travel to Syria himself, but then decided to cooperate. Court testimony about the use of an informant, along with the judge's decision to detain the men, prompted angry reaction from some of the roughly 200 local Somalis who attended Thursday's hearing.

Meanwhile,
...back at the saw mill, Scarface Al had tied Little Nell to the log and was about to turn on the buzz saw...
a man accused of trying to travel to Syria to join the Islamic State group will be sent from Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, to Minnesota to face charges.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Karen S. Crawford in San Diego signed a warrant for the removal of Mohamad Farah.

The FBI tossed in the slammer
Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please!
Farah and Abdurahman Daud last weekend in San Diego. They are among the six men charged in a criminal complaint unsealed Monday with conspiracy to support a foreign terrorist organization. The four others were arrested in Minnesota and authorities say the six are friends.

The complaint says the men planned to reach Syria by going to nearby countries from Minneapolis, San Diego or New York City.
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