Feds charge Minnesota man who they say trained with ISIS and threatened violence against New York
Associated PressNEW YORK — A naturalized U.S. citizen who rapped about flying to “shoot New York up” after training with ISIS in his native Somalia has been charged with supporting a terrorist organization, federal prosecutors said Friday. Harafa Hussein Abdi, 41, of Minneapolis was arrested recently in East Africa and taken to the United States this week, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in New York. We going to come blow New York up.” Abdi left the camp in 2017 after clashing with the ISIS group’s leadership, which had him jailed, the complaint said. Abdi left his country to join ISIS, trained as a fighter, and actively aided the group’s propaganda efforts to spread its vile ideology,” Assistant Attorney General Matthew Olsen said in a news release.
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