Three in California on terror charges

[ahmad guray]

pdated: 14:55, Wednesday November 3, 2010

Three California residents are facing charges of providing funding and other aid for the Shabab, a Somali-based Islamist group linked to al-Qaeda.

The Justice Department said an indictment named San Diego residents Basaaly Saeed Moalin, Mohamed Mohamed Mohamud and Issa Doreh.

They were charged with conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists, conspiracy to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organisation, conspiracy to kill in a foreign country and related offences, said the US attorney for the southern district of California, Laura Duffy.

According to the indictment handed up on October 22, the three conspired to provide money to Shabab, a group designated by Washington as a foreign terrorist organisation and which is accused of using assassinations, improvised explosive devices, suicide bombings and other tactics of intimidation and violence to undermine Somalia's transitional government.

The indictment also said the three were working with Moalim Aden Hashi Ayro, said to be al-Qaeda's military leader in Somalia, who was killed by a US air strike in May 2008. http://terror freesomalia.blogspot.com/2 ... error.html