
In pleading guilty to a single count of perjury, Ali became the fourth person to enter a guilty plea in connection with the exodus of young local Somali men back to Africa to take up arms for a group that the State Department says is a terrorist organization linked to al-Qaida.
A fifth man accused of lying to FBI agents investigating the case has pleaded not guilty.
A federal grand jury has been investigating the travels of at least 20 men — some in the Somali community say the number is higher — back to the African nation that has been a battleground of warring factions since a 1991 coup left the country of 7 million without a government.
In 2006, a transitional government brought in Ethiopian troops to oust Islamist forces from Mogadishu, the nation's capital. Some Somalis viewed the foreign soldiers as invaders; among the groups who fought the Ethiopians was al-Shabaab, which the U.S. government designated as a terrorist organization in February 2008 because it allegedly had ties to al-Qaida. ..more..http://www.twincities.com/news/ci_13698489?source=rss
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