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June 7th, 2010
08:00 AM ET

Feds: Americans planned to train for jihad

(CNN) – Two New Jersey men arrested at a New York airport planned to travel to Somalia to "wage violent jihad," and also had expressed a willingness to commit violent acts in the United States, according to prosecutors and a federal criminal complaint.

Mohamed Mahmoud Alessa, 20, of North Bergen, New Jersey, and Carlos Eduardo Almonte, 24, of Elmwood Park, New Jersey, were taken into custody Saturday at John F. Kennedy International Airport. The two intended to take separate flights to Egypt on their way to Somalia "to join designated foreign terrorist organization al-Shabaab and wage violent jihad," federal prosecutors said in a statement.


Filed under: Terrorism • U.S.
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  1. andrew Northcutt

    Here we go another way for the youth of america to abuse freedom...Be aware America being a boy is influenced by all the fighting cartoons,movies,toys were taught to rebel violently and we do....Now we have these Jihad folks that will train and provide the tools to do some terminator,jeanclaude rambo type junk....Not to mention the fuel we are throwing on the fire with all these soldiers doing 3-4 tours of war....Yup we are making a Human oil spill with all this Global killing "war" and it will wash up against our shores and make its way deep into our society

    June 7, 2010 at 9:32 am |
  2. Michael Armstrong Sr.

    And it's not going to stop with just those two men theres plenty more to fill there shoes America needs to get real we are under attack by the Muslim people and if we do not profile then we will die .

    June 7, 2010 at 9:30 am |