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Note: Suspect apparently was born in Alabama and lives in Chicago. It's unknown if he's Somali, but he was apparently heading over to Somalia.


INVESTIGATIVE PROJECT.org - For The Record - The IPT Blog: "YET ANOTHER AMERICAN ARRESTED FOR PLANNING JIHAD" (August 4, 2010, 4:47 pm)

Chicago.FBI.gov - Press Release: "CHICAGO MAN ARRESTED FOR ATTEMPTING TO PROVIDE MATERIAL SUPPORT TO A TERRORIST ORGANIZATION" (SNIPPET: "A 26-year-old Chicago man, who authorities believed was planning to travel to Somalia and engage in jihadist fighting with a terrorist group, was arrested last night just hours before he was scheduled to leave Chicago..." SNIPPET: "SHAKER MASRI, who lived in the Streeterville area of Chicago, was arrested late yesterday in Countryside, Illinois, without incident..." SNIPPET: "In the past month, it is alleged that MASRI began to actively plan a trip to Somalia where he hoped to join the specially designated terrorist group al Shabaab and commit a suicide attack targeting "infidels." He was arrested last night just hours before he was planning to depart Chicago en route to Somalia...") (August 4, 2010)

Complaint - Link (pdf)

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148 posted on 08/05/2010 3:34:17 AM PDT by Cindy
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http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.6956/pub_detail.asp

“Al-Shabaab in Somalia: A Magnet for American Jihadists?”
August 5, 2010 - The Editor


150 posted on 08/05/2010 5:11:24 PM PDT by Cindy
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