By Guillermo Contreras
Tuesday, February 04, 2014
SAN ANTONIO — When Somalia native Abdinassir Mohamud Ibrahim requested asylum to the United States, authorities said he didn't bother to mention his relation to two men with reported ties to terrorist groups — one of whom was killed in a 2008 U.S. air strike.
Ibrahim, who settled in San Antonio's Northwest Side, was arrested this weekend for visa fraud following an investigation by the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force. He has been in the United States since 2007.
On Monday, he was ordered held without bail pending a hearing later this week.
Ibrahim also acknowledged to agents that he sent $100 to a man he knew was a member of terrorist group al-Shabaab, the FBI has alleged.
He is the latest in a stream of people from Somalia to be prosecuted in San Antonio for suspected terrorism ties.