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Eugene

(61,937 posts) Wed Jun 13, 2012, 08:47 PM Jun 2012

Suspected militant pleads guilty to aiding Somalia's al Shabaab

Source: Reuters

Suspected militant pleads guilty to aiding Somalia's al Shabaab

By Basil Katz
NEW YORK | Wed Jun 13, 2012 6:53pm EDT

(Reuters) - An Eritrean man pleaded guilty in federal court on Wednesday to illegally giving funds and receiving military training from the al Qaeda-linked militant group al Shabaab.

Mohamed Ibrahim Ahmed, 38, was arrested in Nigeria in November 2009 and brought to Manhattan federal court to face U.S. terrorism charges in March 2010. He is an Eritrean national and a permanent resident of Sweden.

Ahmed on Wednesday pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to provide material support to a terrorist organization and one count of conspiracy to receive military-type training from a terrorist group. Both offenses took place in 2009.

Prosecutors, in a plea agreement with Ahmed, recommended Judge Kevin Castel sentence him to 10 years in prison.

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Thu Jun 14, 2012, 07:10 PM

Jun 2012

I do not understand either this snippet or the full Reuters report. In neither did I see any evidence that the U.S. has any legal right to take any action concerning this individual, who apparently lived and operated outside of the U.S. and took no action against the U.S. Is Washington asserting the right to condemn anyone who participates in any armed struggle that Washington dislikes?

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