FBI Most-Wanted Terrorist Allegedly Planned To Target & Recruit Westerners For
Al-Shabab


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Virginia Man Indicted For Conspiring With Somali Terror Group

 FBI Most-Wanted Terrorist Allegedly Planned To Target & Recruit Westerners
For Al-Shabab

(New York, N.Y.) – This week, former Northern Virginia resident and FBI
most-wanted terrorist Liban Haji Mohamed, wasindicted
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in federal court on charges of conspiring to provide material support to the
Somalia-based terrorist group, al-Shabab. The complaint alleges that after
fleeing the United States in 2012, Mohamedreportedly
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planned to join al-Shabab upon his departure to East Africa and use his media
skills to promote online propaganda for the terrorist organization.

While al-Shabab’s recruitment efforts are primarily focused on Somalia and
Kenya, the group’s use of social media for propaganda has attracted recruits
from around the world, including the United States. The FBI has identified and
stymied several attempts by al-Shabab to recruit American fighters over the
Internet and in person. A 2011 U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security
investigation further corroborated that al-Shabab recruiters have used mosques
and cafes as meeting places to radicalize and recruit. Alabama native Omar
Hammami, for example, appeared in several online videos in which he urged
foreigners in English to “live the life of a mujahid.”

Americans began traveling to Somalia to join al-Shabab in 2007 when the terror
group stepped up its insurgency against Somalia’s transitional government. Most
American fighters for al-Shabab have been radicalized in Minneapolis,
Minnesota, home to the largest Somali diaspora in the U.S.

To read CEP’s Al-Shabab resource, please click here
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