SAN DIEGO (AP) — A California woman has been charged with providing money and personnel to a terrorist group in Somalia to help carry out killings in the African nation, according to a federal indictment obtained Monday.
Nima Ali Yusuf supported al-Shabab, an al-Qaeda-linked militia trying to create an Islamic state in Somalia, federal prosecutor Sabrina Feve said.
Yusuf was the fourth person charged in the past month in San Diego with helping al-Shabab. Authorities described her as a lawful permanent resident of the U.S.
She was arrested Friday in San Diego and appeared in federal court Monday.
Yusuf was charged in the indictment with conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists, conspiracy to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization and making a false statement to a government
The others charged in San Diego were accused of raising money then routing the funds to the radical Islamist group.
Federal prosecutors did not provide further details on the allegations.
Since 2007, roughly 20 men have left Minnesota to fight with al-Shabab. It wasn’t immediately clear from the indictment whether Yusuf was connected to those men.
Yusuf also was charged with making a false statement to an FBI agent and Customs and Border Protection officer when she allegedly denied sending money to anyone in Somalia in the past year.
Three other people were indicted in St. Louis and Minnesota this month for also allegedly supporting the radical Islamist group.
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Associated Press writer Amy Forliti in Minneapolis contributed to this report.
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TattooQ
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 1:34pmAnd women like this are the ones Man-et Napalitano is going to give a pass to as she prostrates herself before CAIR . How many jihadists need to be arrested before this Admin WAKES UP on issues like border security, EL AL like profiling, and over the top political correctness !!
Report Post »mzmaj7
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 12:31pmNeither “muslim” nor “Islam” are present in the article. I’m sure the AP was merely in a rush.
Report Post »powhatan
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 11:23amMaybe she could accidentally “escape custody” and later be found beheaded along the mexico border……………….just sayin….
Report Post »BurntHills
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 11:03amlewt’s start freaking these wannabe terrorist muslims out — send her to Gitmo. case CLOSED.
Report Post »moonpeace
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 10:59amWe should lock these people up for a while and then deprot them all to shores of New Jersey.
Report Post »zagfan
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 10:39amDon’t send her to a country that will worship her…put her in prison for life! She would only help the cause if she is free to roam an Islamic country.
Homeland Security has no idea what this bunch of animals is planning for us. All they would need to do is make a car bomb go off in every major city on the same day and we would have total chaos in this country! It or something like it is coming..they aren’t done with us yet!
Report Post »J.C. McGlynn
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 2:19pmYou’re right about locking her up for life. To her, like the rest she supports, the worst thing to do is make them live in America, eat food made by Americans, and breath air in America. The best torture of them all, they want dead so keep them alive.
Report Post »George1
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 10:34amTone down the hateful comments guys, it’s shameful.
Act with some dignity, you are the face of America.
Report Post »Sledgehammer
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 11:44amG1, I kind of see it as a sarcastic humor, I Know we’re should lead by example, but some times I have to laugh or else I’d cry. But you are right on one thing, When it comes to muslims, I do have a deep seated hatered. I was in lebenon Oct 23′rd 1983, this is my spirtitual battle some times I lose, some times I break even, I pray to win! God bless, And laugh!
Report Post »dkhartman
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 10:19amWAIT!! I was told there were no more threats….. I’ve been lied to
Report Post »Sledgehammer
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 9:59amAs a “lawful Permanent resident” see has the right to a trial, (make it fast), if these charges are proven true, her status by law, is revoked! At this stage, I say we put her on a plane (1st let the TSA have at her, hopefully, someone who is Jewish, I’m feeling the love here) fly her over Somalia, and push her out, with no chute! (I lost that lovin feeling)! But that’s the way I would handle it!
Report Post »Okpulot Taha
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 9:55amNima Ali Yusuf. There is no doubt she is a stereotypical blue eyed, blond haired, buxom beach babe from San Fernando Valley. This is what is so insidious about Islamic terrorism, those murderous Muslims look just like you and me. We will never be able to bring Islamic terrorism under control while there is no effective way to visually spot a person who might be an Islamic terrorist.
Okpulot Taha
Report Post »Choctaw Nation
heavyduty
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 9:48amPeople will start getting the message when cars start blowing up. When suicide bombers start blowing themselves up in our churches. But then it will be a long hard fight to get them out of this country.
Report Post »Deda1
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 9:46amExecute
Report Post »libertyordeath87
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 9:42amSend her ass to Gitmo and start the waterboarding. Turn the marines loose on her. Nothing should be held back.
Report Post »NWalters78
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 9:35amThey put Ethel Rosenberg in the chair for just as much as she did. Mary Surrat was hung as a co-conspirator in Lincoln’s Assassination. A number of female SS Guards were hanged for atrocities. Someone follow suit with seditious swine.
Report Post »Sandy
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 9:27amHas anyone checked to see if she is connected to Code Pink?
Report Post »EqualJustice
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 9:07amSan Diego.. isn‘t that one of those SANCTUARY cities where they can’t question your immigration status? Plus, if she has to fly she can avoid security by wearing her BURKA. What a country!
Report Post »Ed in Lebec
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 9:06amThose who hate the USA can’t run to the protections of our Constitution quick enough.
Report Post »George Washington
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 9:01amShe must be classified as an enemy combatant and sent to Guantanamo. But then again: Why waste money on the &*%##@***!!!? Just take her out to Death Valley and leave her there to rot. To HOUSENEGRO. Stoning is to good for that lump of S*&#! I agree with the desert part, though.
Report Post »LadyIzShy
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 8:59amyeah we should allow her to fly and NOT be scanned or pat down? see why we ALL must go through this. because a terrorist can be a female as well as a male.. This just makes me SO mad…
Report Post »mike_trivisonno
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 8:58amThis woman is engaged in violent Jihad in an effort to spread Islam. Deport her.
Report Post »Rogue
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 10:20amI say send her to Guantanamo. Or, perhaps her home nation – maybe the government there can get some information out of her without us having to get our hands dirty. Anyone who supports a terrorist orgaization needs to made an example of.
Report Post »Flagwaver
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 12:02pmNah, send her to Iran. I’m sure they would love to get their hands on an American Muslim. They can try her with Sharia law for some new crime they pencil in and execute her.
Report Post »HouseNegro
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 8:47amCan we drag her out to the desert and throw rocks at her?
Report Post »EP46
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 9:19amYes, but you must first bury her up to her neck in sand.
Report Post »Deda1
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 9:46amDang, that is one hecka off an idea. You need to run for office and you will get my vote. Can I toss the 1st stone? And, I am not void of sin, just figured I would add another one on to my total
Report Post »HouseNegro
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 9:55am@HEAVYDUTY
That sounds like a plan HOUESNEGRO 2012. Wanna be V.P.?
Report Post »HouseNegro
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 10:03amooops! I ment @Deda1
Report Post »MamaBear
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 8:39amKeep shining that light folks!
Report Post »WhiteFang
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 3:46pmMama!!! Mama?? Is that you?
Report Post »patriot4ever
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 8:36am“Lawful permanant resident” has a very broad meaning in SoCal…
Report Post »patriot4ever
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 8:35amand…did she come across the broder illegally?
Report Post »john seven eighteen
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 8:35amI hope the police didn’t pat her down any lower than her neck!!
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {mix art}
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 9:00amSince they did not take her through the airport, most likely not.
http://www.artinphoenix.com/gallery/grimm
Report Post »Rogue
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 10:15amAnyone in MO or MN – the indictments mentioned near the end, were those related to those FBI raids on anti-war groups a little while back?
Report Post »Major Infidel
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 11:01amWe should schedule her for a public stoning.
Report Post »pajamash
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 12:11pm@rogue – No. These are completely different issues. We have a large Somali population in the Twin Cities. Young men went missing over a long period of time. One of the young men was identified as a suicide bomber that had gone back to Somalia. We also have a large Hmog population that is tied to gang violence in parts of the cities. The anti-war group is a separate group and a separate issue from this. Glenn has repeated the adage, “those that do not study history are bound to repeat it”. Most immigrant groups have experienced a period, within the first 50 years of immigrating, of having the young join gangs and promote a heightened level of violence. In the early part of the century you saw it with the Irish. The situation with the young Somali men are a handful of older people filling these boys heads with non-sense. Brain washing them that going back and fighting in a country they know little or nothing about is honorable.
http://www.mapsites.net/gotham/webpages/canfield/irish_gangs.html
Report Post »proudinfidel54
Posted on November 17, 2010 at 12:07pmMAJOR INFIDEL, That wouldn’t do any good, a public stoning has an entirely different meaning in California
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