Three in California charged with aiding Somalia’s Shebab

WASHINGTON — Three California residents were indicted on charges of providing funding and other aid for the Shebab, a Somali-based Islamist group linked to Al-Qaeda, US authorities said Tuesday.
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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 organization, conspiracy to kill in a foreign country and related offenses, 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 Shebab, a group designated by Washington as a foreign terrorist organization and which is accused of using assassinations, improvised explosive devices, suicide bombings and other tactics of intimidation and violence to undermine Somalia

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