Report: Minnesota student left to join IS group in 2015
MINNEAPOLIS — A suburban Minneapolis college student left his family while on vacation in Morocco two years ago and joined the Islamic State group in Syria, according to newly unsealed court files. The case is the first disclosure of someone from Minnesota trying to join the Islamic State since nine Minnesota men were sentenced in federal court last year for plotting unsuccessfully to join the terrorist group. The newspaper reviewed newly unsealed court documents in which federal agents say Abdelhamid Al-Madioum, then age 18, apparently booked a flight from Morocco to Turkey, from which many aspiring IS militants cross into Syria. But the paper reports that a member of the FBI’s joint terrorism task force wrote that new recruits commonly misinform loved ones about their actual locations and activities so as not to cause distress.
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