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charged Deutsche Welle On Tuesday (10/18), this 37-year-old man named Abdullahi Ahmed was arrested by Canadian authorities in 2017. After that, Abdullahi was extradited to the United States in 2019.
According to a December 2021 statement from the Department of Justice in federal court in San Diego, Abdullahi pleaded guilty to providing material support to terrorists.
He helped six Canadian and American citizens join ISIS in Syria in 2013 and 2014. One of the six members was the first American to die fighting for the extremist organization.
Of those six, three are Abdullahi’s cousins from Edmonton, Canada, and his 18-year-old cousin from Minneapolis.
Abdullahi also recruited San Diego resident Douglas McAuthur McCain. But now all six recruits, including McCain, have been killed in Syria while fighting alongside Islamic State fighters against Syrian opposition forces in 2014.
Abdullahi also confessed to committing an armed robbery at a jewelry store in Edmonton in 2014, in an attempt to raise money to fund foreign fighters seeking to join ISIS.
For his actions, Abdullahi was sentenced to 20 years in prison by a US court, as he was found to have directly financed violent acts of terrorism, including the kidnapping and murder of people in Syria.
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