Somali-Born Ohio Man Sentenced For Aiding Terrorists

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A Somali-born naturalized U.S. citizen was sentenced to prison on Tuesday for training with terrorists overseas and plotting to orchestrate a terrorist attack on American soil.

U.S. District Judge Michael H. Watson gave 26-year old Ohioan Abdirahman Sheik Mohamud 22 years in prison followed by 10 years of supervised release, for training with terrorists overseas and returning to the U.S. with the intent to perpetrate an attack, according to a report from the Justice Department. Evidence seized by the FBI indicates that Mohamud planned to kill military officers and other government and military employees.

Court documents show Mohamud obtained a U.S. passport and one-way ticket to Greece in 2014, but did not board his connecting flight to Greece and remained instead in Istanbul, from where he crossed the border into Syria. After arriving in Syria, Mohamud trained with the terrorist organization al-Nusrah Front, the Justice Department reports. In addition to training with the group and planning to execute an attack, he also recruited others into the terrorist organization.

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