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Minnesotan Charged With al-Qaida Support. (Hat tip: zulubaby.)
MINNEAPOLIS - A federal indictment unsealed Wednesday charged a Minnesota man with conspiracy to provide material support to the Al-Qaida terrorist network. Authorities said the man acknowledged being at training camps in Afghanistan at the same time as Osama bin Laden.Mohammed Abdullah Warsame, 30, a Canadian citizen of Somali descent, was charged in an indictment returned Tuesday by a grand jury in Minneapolis.
The indictment alleges that from March 2000 until his arrest last month, Warsame conspired to provide material support and resources for bin Laden’s terror network.
A related affidavit said Warsame admitted to FBI agents he was at training camps in Afghanistan in 2000 and 2001 at the same time as bin Laden.