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Nov 23, 2009 9:05 pm US/Central

Feds Charge 8 In Somali Terror Case

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Feds Charge 8 In Somali Terror Case

Federal authorities unsealed charges Monday against eight new suspects in a long-running probe of young men who left the United States to fight in Somalia.

Two law enforcement officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Monday the new charges against the suspects will be announced at a news conference in Minneapolis.

Seven people already face charges in the case. As many as 20 young Somali men have left Minnesota over the last two years for Somalia, and are believed to have joined the terror group al-Shabab. At least three have died.

The long-running FBI investigation of al-Shabab recruiting and possible financial ties to the United States has spread beyond Minnesota to California, Ohio and Massachusetts.

FBI Director Robert Mueller has said the case is worrisome because it shows young men raised in the United States can be recruited by terrorists overseas, trained to conduct attacks and in some cases killed in the fighting there.

Earlier this month, charges were filed against 24-year-old Omer Abdi Mohamed accusing him of providing material support to terrorists.

The indictment says that as part of the conspiracy, Mohamed -- also known as Brother Omer or Galeyr -- helped some of the men travel to Somalia.

Another Minneapolis man, Mohamud Said Omar, was arrested this month in the Netherlands, accused of financing the purchase of weapons for Islamic militants and helping others travel to Somalia in 2007 and 2008.

Somalia has not had a functioning government since 1991, when warlords overthrew a socialist dictator and then turned on each other, causing chaos in the African nation of 7 million