From the active Somali cells in the area…
Via MPR News:
Federal authorities have charged a 10th Twin Cities man with planning to join the terror group ISIS in Syria.
Abdirizak Mohamed Warsame, 20, of Eagan, was arrested Wednesday evening. Prosecutors say Warsame encouraged the planned departures of several friends who have since been charged in the massive terrorism case — and at one point, was named their leader, according to a court document filed Wednesday.
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.
Warsame graduated in 2013 from Heritage Academy of Science and Technology in Minneapolis, a school that several other defendants attended. A family member said Warsame, who works as a security guard and helps his family pay the bills, currently studies at Normandale Community College.