The capture of a Minnesota man, named Abdirizak Mohamed Warsame, was one of the several arrests made by federal authorities for allegedly recruiting people in the United States to join ISIS in Syria.
Warsame was charged with "one count of conspiring to provide material support to a terrorist organization."
"Abdirizak Warsame conspired with others to travel to Syria to fight with ISIL. We will continue to work to stem the flow of foreign fighters abroad and to bring to justice those who seek to provide material support to designated foreign terrorist organizations," Assistant Attorney General Carlin said in a report by MPR News.
Warsame, 20 years old, is allegedly one of the ten youth from Minnesota who planned to join ISIS more than a year ago. Nine have already been arrested but Abdi Nir, 18 years old, has made it to Syria. Since May 2014, Nir has been recruiting citizens to join ISIS.
According to KSTP, the names of those nine men arrested due to links with ISIS in Minnesota were Abdi Nur, Abdullahi Yusuf, Guled Omar, Adnan Farah, Zacharia Abdurahman, Mohamed Farah, Aburdahman Daud, Hamza Ahmed, Hanad Musse and Warsame.
Prosecutors said Warsame and the group began talking how to get to Syria when they started watching the videos in the spring of 2014. They considered robbing people so they can have money to go to Syria. But Nur said they should just steal from the government.
"It's like playing a game of chess, bro. One thing you move you can be in danger, or you could win," Nur said in the charging documents according to ABC News.
FBI investigators say Warsame encouraged his friends to join ISIS overseas. He even provided money for one of their passports and tried to leave for Syria but his passport application was denied.
Initially, he told the state department in his application that the passport was for a family trip to Britain, but later said that the family was traveling to Australia.
The man recently arrested in Minnesota was one of nearly 90 people taking action on behalf of ISIS.
