Guilty verdicts returned against all three defendants in ISIL trial

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Families could be heard weeping in the courtroom as verdicts in the local recruitment trial with national repercussions were read.
Stephen Montemayor
June 4, 2016

The largest ISIL-related federal prosecution to reach trial resulted Friday in emphatic guilty verdicts against three Minneapolis men on charges of conspiring to support a foreign terrorist organization and to commit murder abroad under its command.

The three defendants — Abdirahman Daud, 22; Mohamed Farah, 22, and Guled Omar, 21 — now face sentences of up to life in prison in a case that could have national repercussions for the battle against homegrown terrorism.

As the verdicts were read in a hushed Minneapolis courtroom, each defendant sat silently and their relatives began weeping. One woman left the courtroom sobbing and one juror could be seen tearing up.

On a list of separate charges, the jury found Farah guilty of making false statements to federal authorities, but found Daud not guilty of perjury. Omar was also found guilty of attempting to use student aid to finance his travel.

After the verdicts were announced, U.S. District Judge Michael Davis asked each defendant in turn: “Do you understand what the verdict was?”

Omar replied: “That’s correct.”

 

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Prepare Yourself For A SHOCK

Terrorist wannabes guilty, Somalis hardest hit
Scott Johnsom
May 5 2016

We are all painfully familiar with the journalistic genre portraying the suffering of favored groups. That would be groups favored by the journalists. The satirical headline that captures the genre gives us the New York Times’s take on the apocalypse: “World ends, women & minorities hardest hit.”

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With their “Somalis hardest hit” stories, Pearce and Hauslohner got a jump on the Star Tribune this time around. On Friday as the jury deliberated the Star Tribune published “ISIL case triggers fear in a community.” Not in the community that is hated by the terrorist wannabes, of course, but rather in the community that decries the efforts of law enforcement to protect us from them.

 

And that’s not all! After the guilty verdicts came in on Friday, the Star Tribune went back for more and came up with “For Somali-Americans, verdicts are discouraging.”

 

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