American funded al-Shabab terror recruit!

October 05, 2012 08:38

An American who traveled to Somalia to train with the terror group al-Shabab testified against a man accused of helping arrange the travel.

Abdifatah Yusuf Isse told jurors that he saw Mahamud Said Omar hand $500 in cash to another al-Shabab recruit and wish him good luck during a meeting at a Minneapolis pizza parlor in 2007. The meeting occurred before Isse and several other men departed for Somalia, said Isse, who said the cash was pocket money.

Isse testified that the pizza parlor meeting came near the end of a string of private meetings at a Minneapolis mosque in which participants discussed traveling to Somalia and waging "jihad" against Ethiopian soldiers seen as invaders of their homeland.

Omar, 46, is charged with five terror-related counts in a federal trial that is part of a broader investigation into recruiting by al-Shabab, a US-designated terror group linked to al-Qaida at the center of much of the violence in Somalia. Prosecutors say Omar helped acquire airline tickets, helped pay for weapons and encouraged men to join.

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