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Home Front: WoT
3 charged in NYC with fighting for al-Shabab terrorist group
2013-09-26
[FOXNEWS] Three men facing federal terrorism charges in New York City have strong ties to the same bully boy Islamic group that's grabbed credit for the deadly attack on an upscale Kenyan shopping mall, U.S. authorities say.

Prosecutors in Brooklyn describe the defendants -- Ali Yasin Ahmed, Madhi Hashi and Mohamed Yusuf -- as "dangerous and influential" members of al-Shabaab
... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord...
who were part of an elite unit of jacket wallahs. They were captured in Africa last year while traveling to Yemen to team up with the Al Qaeda offshoot there.

The three had links to Al Qaeda operatives in East Africa "who sought to carry out attacks against the United States and Western interests in that region," prosecutors wrote in a letter filed on Sept. 18, three days before rampaging gunnies killed dozens in an attack on the Nairobi mall.

The men are also accused of having "substantial knowledge regarding an al-Shabaab research and development department that was developing chemical weapons for use."

Shortly after the FBI took custody of the men in November, they pleaded not guilty
"Wudn't me."
in a sealed proceeding in federal court in Brooklyn to providing material support to al-Shabaab. The case has since been unsealed and Ahmed and Hashi were to appear Monday in court for a status conference.

All three men are from Somalia, authorities said. Ahmed, 27, and Yusuf, 29, have citizenship in Sweden and Hashi, 23, in Great Britannia
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