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Miami: Muslim gets 15 years for conspiring to support jihad mass murderers

Aug 28, 2015 2:17 pm By Robert Spencer

AlShabab_MOA_screengrabAl-Shabaab was behind the Westgate Mall massacre in Nairobi several years ago. “Kenyan sentenced to 15 years in prison in US terror case,” by Curt Anderson, Associated Press, August 28, 2015 (thanks to Lookmann):

MIAMI (AP) — A Kenyan man described by U.S. prosecutors as a fundraiser and recruiter for terrorist groups in Africa and the Middle East was sentenced Friday to 15 years in federal prison.

U.S. District Judge Ursula Ungaro imposed the maximum possible sentence on 27-year-old Mohamed Said. He pleaded guilty in May to charges of conspiring to support to Africa’s violent al-Shabaab organization and al-Qaida affiliates in Syria and elsewhere.

Said’s attorney, Silvia Pinera-Vazquez, had sought a more lenient eight-year sentence because Said never plotted directly against the U.S. and was solely supporting what she described as foreign “insurgents.”

“There is simply no evidence of direct intent to harm the United States,” she said.

Oh, well, then it’s OK? Not quite:

But Ungaro said terrorist groups he supported have an avowed intent to attack the U.S. and its interests overseas.

“It’s not reasonable to say that his conduct did not touch the United States. It did,” Ungaro said.

Said and co-defendant Gufran Mohammed were arrested in 2013 in Saudi Arabia in a case that evolved from undercover FBI monitoring of Internet chat rooms frequented by Islamic extremists. Mohammed, a naturalized U.S. citizen originally from India, is already serving a 15-year prison sentence after pleading guilty.

Said, from Mombasa, Kenya, had never been to the U.S. before his arrest. It was his use of the Internet and communications with undercover FBI operatives and Mohammed — who lived in the Los Angeles area — that enabled the U.S. to charge him with federal terrorism support crimes.

Of the two, Said played the more critical role because of his connections to the leadership of the terrorist groups and knowledge of their inner workings, said Assistant U.S. Attorney Ricardo Del Toro. The prosecutor noted that al-Shabaab’s most notorious attack was the 2013 assault on a shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya, that left 67 people dead.

“He was an insider in al-Shabaab,” Del Toro said. “The goal of these organizations is to murder civilians.”…

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Filed Under: Al-Shabaab, Featured, Kenya Tagged With: Mohamed Said


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  1. Mr Upside Down says

    Aug 28, 2015 at 2:39 pm

    TWAT

  2. Goat Pimp says

    Aug 28, 2015 at 2:52 pm

    We need to open up a new hell-hole prison complex for all these Muslims. The numbers appear staggering.

    Robert the number of these type of articles that you have been compiling on JW is growing and accelerating. Unbelievable. It is hard to keep up with it all.

    I guess the strategy of appeasement is working — sarc.

    • Dr. Divinity says

      Aug 29, 2015 at 10:19 pm

      We sure do need a separate hell-hole prison for Muslims only, because mixed prisons make for a great recruitment field.for the Islamist terrorists.

  3. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    Aug 28, 2015 at 3:30 pm

    27-year-old Mohamed Said

    Grandson of Edward Said, perhaps? If he is, then look for op-eds by this guy to show up in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal.

  4. mortimer says

    Aug 28, 2015 at 4:39 pm

    Del Toro said. “The goal of these organizations is to murder civilians.”…

    Correction: “The goal of these organizations is to TERRORIZE WESTERN civilians.”…

    Koran 8.60 ‘TURHIBUNNA’ (terrorize them)

  5. Angemon says

    Aug 28, 2015 at 5:21 pm

    15 years for treason? Sounds kinda lenient…

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