An American fugitive, who officials say is suspected of
recruiting impressionable young men for terrorist groups including ISIS and was
linked to at least one domestic terror attack in the U.S., has turned himself
in to authorities, the State Department announced today.
Mohamed Abdullahi Hassan, known online as “Miski,”
surrendered to the government of Somalia early last month, a State Department
spokesperson told reporters. Hassan has been wanted by the FBI since he left
the U.S. in 2009 for allegedly providing "material support" to the al
Qaeda-linked terrorist group al-Shabab in Somalia, often purportedly by
convincing young American recruits to join. U.S. officials accuse Hassan of
since moving on to recruiting for the Syria-based terror group ISIS.
Over the weekend ABC News reported that investigators
were trying to determine if the couple who killed 14 people in San Bernardino
last week had any online connection with Hassan in the months before he turned
himself in.
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