Mohamud isn’t the first Portland individual to be investigated for intent to travel overseas to engage in violent activity. According to an affidavit filed in the Portland Seven case, two of the defendants talked about the imam of Masjid as-Saber, Muhammad Kariye, with a cooperating witness. Kariye used money raised at the mosque to finance travel for individuals to join the mujahedeen in Afghanistan, the defendants said, and made statements supportive of armed jihad. In October 2002, Jeffrey Battle, one of the defendants, told the witness that Kariye had prepared individuals to fight jihad against Russia. Kariye “told his followers...