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African linked to violent extremist group in Somalia sentenced in NYC to 9 years in prison
Thursday, March 28, 2013
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An East African man has been sentenced in New York to just over nine years in prison for conspiring to support terrorism by associating with a violent extremist group in Somalia.
Mohamed Ibrahim Ahmed was sentenced Wednesday in federal court to nine years and three months in prison. He had pleaded guilty in June.
Ahmed was detained in Nigeria in 2009 before being turned over to U.S. authorities. Prosecutors in New York had accused the Eritrean man of receiving explosives training, buying an assault rifle and raising money for al-Shabab.
Al-Shabab was designated by the United States as a terrorist group in 2008. Manhattan's top federal prosecutor said in a release that Ahmed travelled thousands of miles (kilometres) to align himself with al-Shabab and aid their campaign of terror.
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