Somali refugee admits aiding terror group (San Diego)

Source: AP

A Somali refugee pleaded guilty in federal court on Thursday to aiding four men who left Minnesota to join a Somali terror group, including one man who is suspected of carrying out a suicide bombing in the African nation in October.

Prosecutors have said Nima Yusuf conspired in California and elsewhere to aid al-Shabaab, an al-Qaeda-linked militia trying to create an Islamic state in Somalia.

As part of her plea, the 25-year-old permanent resident of the US acknowledged that she agreed to help the men with money and personnel.

Over the past three years, Minnesota has been the centre of a federal investigation into the recruitment of people from the US to train or fight with al-Shabaab in Somalia, which hasn't had a functioning government since 1991.

Read more: http://www.news24.com/Africa/News/Somali-refugee-admits-aiding-terror-group-20111202

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FBI press release http://www.fbi.gov/sandiego/press-releases/2011/san-diego-woman-pleads-guilty-to-conspiracy-to-provide-material-support-to-al-shabaab">here.

'nuff said.