ISIS Recruit Suspect to Be Returned to Minnesota

By Tamara Audi
Friday, May 1, 2015

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The final defendant arrested in San Diego in connection with a terrorism investigation into a group of Somali-American men in Minnesota will be returned to that state to face charges there.

During a hearing in a San Diego federal court Thursday, Abdirahman Daoud acknowledged he is the person being charged in the Minnesota case, according to court documents. Mr. Daoud waived an identity hearing. The judge ordered him removed to Minnesota, according to court documents.

Mohamed Farah, also arrested in San Diego and charged in the case, agreed to be transferred to Minnesota during an earlier court appearance.

Both men are part of a case against six young men charged earlier this month in connection with attempts to support or join Islamic State, or ISIS. The four other men in the case were arrested in Minnesota. According to federal prosecutors, the two men traveled to San Diego from Minnesota to obtain fake passports, cross the border to Mexico and fly to Turkey, which borders Syria.

Lawyers for the men previously didn’t respond to requests for comment.

The federal case allegedly involves one of the largest groups of would-be foreign fighters in the U.S. attempting to support a terrorist organization.

The two men are being held in a federal detention facility in San Diego County while they wait to be sent to Minnesota, said Steve Jurman, supervisory deputy U.S. Marshal for the Southern District of California. Mr. Jurman said he couldn’t reveal when they would be transferred to Minnesota for security reasons, but that such transfers typically occur within a few weeks.

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