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Michigan Residents Arrested for Conspiracy to Provide Material Support to ISIS
DOJ ^ | 01/22/19 | DOJ Office of Public Affairs

Posted on 01/22/2019 3:30:06 PM PST by yesthatjallen

Three residents of Lansing, Michigan, were arrested without incident Monday afternoon for conspiring to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization, namely the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS). The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Michigan charged all three in a criminal complaint filed today in U.S. District Court in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The conspiracy charge is punishable by up to 20 years in federal prison.

Members of the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF) arrested Muse Abdikadir Muse (Muse Muse) at the Gerald R. Ford Airport in Grand Rapids, Michigan, after checking in for a flight to the first of a series of destinations on his way to Mogadishu, Somalia. Shortly thereafter, law enforcement arrested alleged coconspirators Mohamud Abdikadir Muse (Mohamud Muse), and Mohamed Salat Haji (Haji). All three defendants are naturalized U.S. citizens who were born in Kenya.

According to the complaint affidavit, Muse Muse purchased airline tickets earlier this month to travel from Grand Rapids to Mogadishu, departing on Monday, January 21, 2019. Among other support, the complaint alleged Haji and Mohamud Muse aided in the purchase of the ticket and drove Muse Muse to the Grand Rapids airport, each knowing the true purpose of the travel was for Muse Muse to join and fight for ISIS.

The complaint asserts that all three defendants pledged allegiance to ISIS through videos they recorded themselves. Muse Muse and Haji allegedly discussed with each other their desire to join ISIS, to kill non-believers, and even to potentially use a car for a martyrdom operation to run down non-believers here in the United States if they could not travel overseas to fight for ISIS. Following the arrests, federal agents executed search warrants at a residence shared by Mohamud Muse and Muse Muse.

Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers, Andrew B. Birge, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Michigan, and Tim Slater, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Detroit Field Division, announced the arrests.

The public is reminded that a complaint contains only charges and is not evidence of guilt. A defendant is presumed innocent and is entitled to a fair trial at which the government has the burden of proving guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.


TOPICS: Canada; News/Current Events; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: isis; m; terrorism

1 posted on 01/22/2019 3:30:06 PM PST by yesthatjallen
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2 posted on 01/22/2019 3:35:49 PM PST by BeauBo
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To: BeauBo

Out of my state. Good bye.


3 posted on 01/22/2019 3:38:47 PM PST by MarMema (don't forget to stock up on dogfood)
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To: BeauBo

If Obama had sons then this is EXACTLY what they’d look and act like.


4 posted on 01/22/2019 3:44:25 PM PST by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism.)
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To: BeauBo

0bama’s sons.


5 posted on 01/22/2019 3:45:33 PM PST by wjcsux (The hyperventilating of the left means we are winning! (Tagline courtesy of Laz.))
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To: yesthatjallen

“allegedly discussed with each other their desire to join ISIS, to kill non-believers, and even to potentially use a car for a martyrdom operation to run down non-believers here in the United States”

Non-believers in.... Can’t the DoJ say it??


6 posted on 01/22/2019 3:53:23 PM PST by ReaganGeneration2
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To: yesthatjallen

“Abdikadir”
He did wut with that deer?


7 posted on 01/22/2019 4:59:30 PM PST by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: BeauBo

Thanks Lutheran Social Services


8 posted on 01/22/2019 5:25:14 PM PST by magna carta
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To: magna carta

“Thanks Lutheran Social Services.”

They got paid. It’s not like they give a rip about actual Lutherans.

L


9 posted on 01/22/2019 5:26:56 PM PST by Lurker (President Trump isn't our last chance. President Trump is THEIR last chance)
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To: yesthatjallen

Enemy combatants. Send them to Gitmo for about 30 years.


10 posted on 01/22/2019 5:36:40 PM PST by antidemoncrat
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To: yesthatjallen

don’t tell me - they’re Zero refugees that were ‘fully vetted’


11 posted on 01/22/2019 5:38:03 PM PST by blueplum ( "...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
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