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Latest: ISIS trial in Minnesota
The FBI has arrested nine young Minnesota men since 2014 for allegedly plotting to join the terror group ISIS in Syria.
The men are accused of plotting to commit murder overseas — a charge that carries a maximum sentence of life in prison — as well as conspiring to provide material support to a terrorist organization, a charge that carries up to 15 years in prison. Their families insist the men are innocent and never intended to harm their country.
The government is taking the threat of domestic radicalization seriously. However, some Minnesota Somali-American community leaders contend that the government is over-reaching in its anti-terrorism efforts when it comes to arresting impressionable young Muslim men who recently graduated from high schools and never left the United States.
None of the men on trial has previously committed a crime.
Latest: ISIS trial in Minnesota
The FBI has arrested nine young Minnesota men since 2014 for allegedly plotting to join the terror group ISIS in Syria.
The men are accused of plotting to commit murder overseas — a charge that carries a maximum sentence of life in prison — as well as conspiring to provide material support to a terrorist organization, a charge that carries up to 15 years in prison. Their families insist the men are innocent and never intended to harm their country.
The government is taking the threat of domestic radicalization seriously. However, some Minnesota Somali-American community leaders contend that the government is over-reaching in its anti-terrorism efforts when it comes to arresting impressionable young Muslim men who recently graduated from high schools and never left the United States.
None of the men on trial has previously committed a crime.
