A guy from Minnesota was jailed on Friday for ties with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist company and was charged with one count of attempting to offer “material assistance and resources” to them, the United States Justice Department revealed.
Abdisatar Ahmed Hassan, from Minneapolis, was implicated of signing up with ISIS by taking a trip to Somalia from his home state on 2 different events in December of in 2015, however was eventually unable to do so, the Department included.
Hassan declared that he was checking out household in an African nation, however the Justice Department concluded that he had no loved ones there. He appeared at the District of Minnesota on Friday and remains in custody till there is an official detention hearing on the case.
Hassan supported the foreign terrorist company openly through social networks posts and touched with a Facebook account called the Manjaniq Library, according to an examination performed by the FBI together with the Minneapolis Joint Terrorism Job Force. The Justice Department stated the Facebook account motivated individuals to take a trip to sign up with ISIS.
Two Times in February, Hassan published videos on social networks of himself driving, with a little ISIS flag being seen inside the automobile, the FBI stated.
Applauding the New Orleans terrorist attack
The FBI examination likewise exposed that Hassan had actually applauded the terrorist Shamsud-Din Jabbar, who dedicated a truck ramming attack in New Orleans at the start of this year, where 14 individuals were eliminated. An ISIS flag was on the trailer drawback of the truck. 2 Israelis were likewise injured in the ramming attack.
FBI Assistant Unique Representative Alethea Duncan stated that the FBI didn’t think Jabbar was acting alone. Jabbar, who was a United States Army veteran, was apparently influenced by the terrorist company.
Jabbar had actually apparently attempted to utilize a transmitter to detonate 2 dynamites near the attack also.
Danielle Greyman-Kennard, Corrine Baum, and Reuters added to this report.