14 Americans Charged With Trying to Join Terror Group

[Archdemos]

(Aug. 5) -- Fourteen American citizens have been charged with trying to join the Somali terrorist group allied with al-Qaida and tied to two deadly bombings in Uganda last month, NBC News reports.

 

The charges are to be announced today at the Justice Department, NBC said, citing unidentified law enforcement officials. Twelve of those charged with trying to join al-Shabab are from Minnesota, the others are from Alabama and California, NBC said.

 

Earlier this week, a 26-year-old Chicago man, Shaker Masri, was charged after the FBI uncovered his alleged plot to go to Somalia to become a suicide bomber for al-Qaida and al-Shabab, The Associated Press reported, citing court documents.

 

Masri was taken into custody Tuesday evening, hours before he was to leave the country for Somalia, prosecutors said.

 

During a court appearance, Masri told a judge he was a U.S. citizen. Court documents cited by the AP said he was born in Alabama and spent years overseas before returning to the United States when he was 18.

 

Masri suggested to an informant that he knew a man who was arrested last month in Virginia for alleged plans to join al-Shabab, the AP reported. That man, Zachary Chesser, had posted an online warning to the creators of "South Park" that they risked death for mocking the Prophet Muhammad.

 

Al-Shabab claimed responsibility for deadly bombings of two sites in Uganda where people were watching the World Cup final game on television last month. Seventy-four people were killed.

 

The group said the attacks were in retaliation for Uganda's participation in the African Union peacekeeping force in the Somali capital Mogadishu.

[Nin-Yaaban]

Damn, not a week goes by without having to hear people getting busted for this type of thing. A white dude was arrested few weeks ago here in Fairfax for the same thing. and now these guys, I am just gonna tell people I am from Ethiopia if they ask me.

[Geel_jire]

This terrorist label is getting out of hand, now every group who is legitimately opposed to this puppet of a government gets caught in this situation.

 

The damn Americans are too ****** to realize that this whole 'We are fighting terrorists' has become a joke .. a sort of con among puppet regimes .. when they wish to extract a few billion from uncle sam.

 

the word has lost all meaning .. any two groups that disagree on anything are throwing it around now.

 

and these innocent civilians have to suffer for it.

[Prometheus]

I don't mind tolerating bipolar, terrorist-sympathizers online. But actual terrorists who lend material and logistical support to Al-Shabaab deserve to be behind bars. Nicely done, Homeland Security.

[money]

let them rot in jail and in hell ...no sympathy for terrorist supporters and sympathizers

[BUKURR]

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