An American was accused of threatening to attack New York
| An American citizen was accused of being a member of the ISIS terrorist group in Somalia and threatening to attack New York City. |
according to the report of the international group Tasnim news, the US Department of Justice announced in a statement that a man from Minneapolis, accused of being a member of the ISIS terrorist group and supporting this group and receiving the necessary training in Somalia to carry out terrorist operations by this group, and finally threatening to attack New York City, the accusation was .
based on this The statement, Harafa Hossein Abdi, 41 years old, left America for Somalia in 2015 and joined ISIS terrorists in the training camp of this group in the Puntland region of Somalia.
Damian Williams, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, stated that Hossein Abdi went to Somalia to join ISIS fighters and while he was training at an ISIS terrorist training camp in that country, with An AK-47 in a video threatened to attack civilians in New York City and encouraged others to participate in the attack.
Abdi earlier in a post on the social network He had said that he went to Somalia from his place of residence in Minneapolis, America, to join ISIS and support ISIS in jihad. He also published a picture of himself holding an AK-47 in his hand and standing in the deserts of Somalia.
Abdi also made a propaganda video in support of ISIS to be published in the media branch of this terrorist group.
According to this report, Abdi was finally arrested and imprisoned by this group in 2017 after leaving ISIS, but he managed to escape from ISIS prison and go to East Africa, where he was finally arrested by the Somali police and extradited to America.
After he was extradited to America, he confessed his connection with ISIS and confirmed his identity in the propaganda video he made for ISIS. In this video holding an AK-47 weapon in his hand, he said: We We are grateful to God for making us his soldiers and choosing us to be members of the Caliph’s forces.
The US Department of Justice stated that Mahadeh Abdi is accused of conspiracy, supporting ISIS and receiving necessary military training from a foreign terrorist group to carry out terrorist operations and threaten to attack New York, and if convicted, he may be sentenced to tens of years in prison.
| Publisher | Tasnim News |
