Two Somali men living in Tucson have pleaded guilty to conspiring to provide support and resources to ISIS.
The Department of Justice says 26-year-old Ahmed Mahad Mohamed and 25-year-old Abdi Yemeni Hussein began conspiring in late 2018 to travel to Egypt and fight with ISIS in the Sinai Peninsula.
The agency says one of the men told other ISIS supporters online that he wanted to travel to the group’s territory to become “the beheading guy” and that his friend wanted to join as well. The two met in person in 2019, according to the DOJ, and were arrested by the FBI that year at the Tucson airport before boarding a flight to Cairo.
The two men will face sentencing later this year for conspiracy to provide material support and resources to a designated foreign terrorist organization.
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