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Minnesota Muslims used college loans to pay for airfare to Syria to wage jihad

May 20, 2015 11:30 pm By Robert Spencer

Minnesota ISIS recruitsYour tax dollars at work. “Fraud charges added to ISIL terrorism case against 2 Twin Cities men,” by Paul McEnroe, Star Tribune, May 19, 2015 (thanks to Pamela Geller)

Two Twin Cities men charged with conspiracy to fight alongside terrorists now face financial fraud charges for allegedly using their college loans to purchase airline tickets to fly to the Middle East.

In a superseding indictment unsealed Tuesday by the U.S. attorney’s office in Minnesota, Hamza Ahmed and Hanad Mustafe Musse were charged with using more than $1,000 of financial aid provided to them.

Ahmed, 20, of Savage, and Musse, 19, of Minneapolis, are among seven young Somali-Americans from Minnesota who face charges of planning to leave the United States and fight alongside Islamic extremist groups. Six of them were charged in April.

During the past two years, more than 20 Somali-Americans from Minnesota have left to fight alongside terrorists with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, or ISIL, according to the FBI.

The new indictment says that Ahmed and Musse bought airline tickets on Nov. 8, 2014, from New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport to Europe, using more than $1,000 in federal college financial aid. Ahmed used his aid money to purchase a flight to Istanbul, Turkey, authorities say. Musse used similar funds to buy a ticket to travel to Greece. From those two destinations, authorities say the pair then planned on heading to Syria. Ahmed had actually boarded his flight when he was ordered off the plane by officers from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

In a related matter, Abdirahman Daud, 21, another alleged conspirator, made his first appearance in federal court in Minneapolis on Tuesday morning before U.S. Chief District Judge Michael Davis. Daud was arrested by the FBI in San Diego in late April, along with alleged conspirator Mohamed Farah, after they drove from Minneapolis to California. They were accompanied on the trip by a confidential informant who was working for the FBI.

Daud and Farah allegedly planned to acquire false documents in San Diego in order to cross into Mexico. From there, they planned on flying to the Middle East with the intent of entering Syria to fight, authorities say….

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Filed Under: American jihadis, Featured, Islamic State (aka ISIS, ISIL, Daesh) Tagged With: Abdirahman Daud, Hamza Ahmed, Hanad Mustafe Musse


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  1. sarah pratt says

    May 20, 2015 at 11:45 pm

    Only $1000 to get them out of the US? Money well spent.

    • Don McKellar says

      May 21, 2015 at 12:28 am

      It would have been had they been allowed to leave and then stripped of any ability to ever come back! Instead it’s just another $1000 bled from the foolish infidels who let them use taxpayer money.

      • dlbrand says

        May 21, 2015 at 2:12 am

        Don McKellar says: “It would have been had they been allowed to leave and then stripped of any ability to ever come back! Instead it’s just another $1000 bled from the foolish infidels who let them use taxpayer money.”

        Indeed, Indeed, D.m k.

        Once more, like blind helpless fools, because we refuse to regard the basic facts of the teachings of Islam; we are, not twice stung from the same hole, but repeatedly, repeatedly, repeatedly, twice ad infinitum stung from the same hole

    • b.c.terry says

      May 21, 2015 at 8:31 pm

      Money well spent.

  2. Don McKellar says

    May 21, 2015 at 12:26 am

    Look at those dead shark eyes, will you? Islamic zombies.

    • Diana Rosalind Trimble says

      May 21, 2015 at 8:08 am

      I thought the same thing. Especially the one on the far right – he looks like a wax figurine with glass eyeballs.

  3. Mahendra Singh says

    May 21, 2015 at 1:13 am

    Have these four thought of entering a Somali Beauty Contest?

    • Lioness says

      May 21, 2015 at 11:05 am

      Funny. They ARE hideous looking, very appropriate for jihadis.

  4. Mike says

    May 21, 2015 at 6:13 am

    $1000 would have been a bargain to get them out if they had have got away with it……..
    Would be the best use of taxpayer money after drone strikes and missiles

    Great care should be taken by the media in reporting exactly how they got caught so the next lot planning on doing the same don’t make the same mistakes

  5. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    May 21, 2015 at 8:40 am

    We got to see the mass rocket attack on Israel, you remember, the one that caused the BBC to denounce the Jews there as Islamophobic. The rockets they were shooting were paid for by the U.S. taxpayer, the Iron Dome to shoot down the shot rockets was paid for by the U.S. taxpayer, and the concrete tunnels the Mujahidin snuck through to cross from Gaza into Israel to murder Jews were paid for by the U.S. taxpayer.

    So, as a taxpaying Minnesotan, I don’t feel two bad about paying for these fine looking young Mujahidin to fly to Syria to mass murder some Christians and Yazidis. I think of it like a Moslem version of a young person taking a trip across Europe before going to college, riding on a EuroPass and staying in inexpensive hostels. Hopefully the New Caliph Abu Bakr is smart enough to transport these kids after their service in the Upper Levant down to the Gaza to maybe murder some Jews, or least be able to watch them being murdered.

    Question: what college would admit these dumbasses?

    • PRCS says

      May 21, 2015 at 11:53 am

      Most likely would, and the boys would be given preferential treatment,toot–for their beliefs and intent–I imagine.

  6. Angemon says

    May 21, 2015 at 8:49 am

    In a superseding indictment unsealed Tuesday by the U.S. attorney’s office in Minnesota, Hamza Ahmed and Hanad Mustafe Musse were charged with using more than $1,000 of financial aid provided to them.

    More than $1000? How much more? In any case, they left so it’s money well spend. In any case, so much for “poverty, ignorance and exclusion causes terrorism” – they were instructed enough to enter a college and qualified for student loans.

    • Alarmed Pig Farmer says

      May 21, 2015 at 8:58 am

      It’s worth mentioning here that President Barack Obama, a Harvard-Columbia Man, has asserted that many if not most of the slaves picking cotton in pre-Civil War America were Moslems. This of course implies that the Moslem slaves were stripped of their religion and forced to convert to Christianity. So the charge of fraud is neither here nor there, as descendants of slaves they are owed reparations.

      True, these guys are Somalis, but that doesn’t matter, Justice Anthony Kennedy of the Supremes crossed that legal bridge a long time ago.

  7. PRCS says

    May 21, 2015 at 11:57 am

    So, as one of them was removed from the flight before it left the gate, were the funds recouped from the airline and returned to the treasury?

  8. Alan McNulty says

    May 21, 2015 at 1:45 pm

    Robert
    Using just one , latest example: Coach Harbaugh (there are such men) leading the charge for free speech , amazingly at an American university, is it time to have a separate section called ‘ The Backlash?’ People worldwide are fighting back, some in unfair and unjustified ways, against Jihadi oppression and its assault on Western Civilization.

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