Meet 20-year-old “security guard” Abdirizak Mohamed Warsame, the 10th person arrested in the Minneapolis, Minn. area on charges of conspiring with ISIS:
BREAKING: Abdirizak Warsame is the 10th Twin Cities man to be charged with conspiring to join ISIS. https://t.co/DfC9xAbVux
— Mukhtar M. Ibrahim (@mukhtaryare) December 10, 2015
Abdirizak Warsame, 20-year-old security guard from Eagan, will have detention hearing Tuesday and will be assigned a public defender.
— Laura Yuen (@laura_yuen) December 10, 2015
According to the FBI complaint, Warsame was the leader of the “cell”:
FOX NEWS ALERT: Minnesota man accused of conspiring to help ISIShttps://t.co/vlLbW7JEux
— FOX & friends (@foxandfriends) December 10, 2015
More from Minnesota Public Radio:
Warsame also is accused of providing one of the defendants, Adnan Farah, $200 for Farah’s passport application, and seeking to put another traveler, Yusuf Jama, in touch with ISIS contacts.
He was charged with providing support to a foreign terrorist organization, as well as conspiring to do so.
A phone call to his mother Wednesday night was not returned.
Warsame knew that investigators were interested in him. Family members told MPR News the FBI had questioned Warsame and a younger brother in recent years. In August 2014, the family was concerned enough to send the two teens to Chicago to live with their father for a time. Warsame returned to Minnesota in June.
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Warsame and his family have been on the FBI’s radar for years:
FBI questioned Abdirizak Warsame and his brother multiple times in recent years. Family is in shock now. https://t.co/Y1cvpuSqOp
— Mukhtar M. Ibrahim (@mukhtaryare) December 10, 2015
Family of ISIS suspect Abdirizak Warsame was concerned, sent him to Chicago after questioned by FBI. https://t.co/TmsulU14q0 @mukhtaryare
— Laura Yuen (@laura_yuen) December 10, 2015
Of the 9 others from the area arrested, “Three of them have pleaded guilty, five will head to trial next year, and one — Abdi Nur — is believed to have made it to Syria.”
A tenth accused ISIS recruit from Minnesota faces charges and is expected to appear in federal court this morning pic.twitter.com/ZJlANxxcmu
— CBS This Morning (@CBSThisMorning) December 10, 2015
Wonderful.
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