Terror pipeline Minneapolis and Somalia

(not verified) | October 19, 2012
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MINNEAPOLIS (KMSP) -

Jurors have delivered a guilty verdict in the trial of a Minnesota man accused of helping send men to Somalia to join the al-Qaida-linked group al-Shabab.

Mahamud Said Omar was convicted on all five terrorism-related counts in the FBI's investigation into what it called a "terror pipeline" dating back to 2007. 

Omar has been accused of providing material support during the recruitment of more than 20 Minneapolis-area Somali men who returned to their native land to join al-Shabab.



Read more: http://www.myfoxtwincities.com/story/19857608/jury-reaches-verdict-in-somalia-terrorism-case#ixzz29lrmdZZV
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