The feds busted an Ohio man who sneaked into Syria last year to train with terrorists before returning to the United States with the twisted plan to “kill three or four American soldiers execution style,” authorities said. Abdirahman Sheik Mohamud, 23, wanted to attack a Texas military base or a prison, targeting police or military members at the behest of a radical cleric, an indictment on several terrorism charges filed in Columbus, Ohio, reads. Mohamud, a Somalia native who became a naturalized U.S. citizen in February 2014, left the country two months later on a one-way ticket to Greece. But he got off at a connection in Istanbul, never boarded his next flight and instead sneaked into Syria. It was there that Mohamud received training, “including shooting weapons, breaking into houses, explosives and hand-to-hand combat,” the government alleges. Mohamud was arrested earlier this year and faces charges of supporting terrorism, supporting a terrorist group and making a false statement involving international terrorism. His disturbing plan was put into motion in September 2013, when Mohamud got in touch with a brother already fighting in Syria about plans to follow him there. Mohamud told Abdifatah Aden he wanted to join him “in… Read full this story
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