2 Somali-Americans Sentenced for Plotting to Join IS

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2 Somali-Americans Sentenced for Plotting to Join IS

Two more Somali-American men have been sentenced to prison for conspiring to provide material support to Islamic State.

Hanad Musse, 21, is one of nine friends in Minnesota's large Somali community who are being sentenced this week for conspiring to join the militant group. Earlier Tuesday, one of his co-defendants, Hamza Ahmed, received 15 years on charges connected to the plot.

Musse, Ahmed and two other men traveled to New York in November 2014, planning to travel to Greece and then on to Syria. They were taken off a plane by federal agents.

Prosecutors said they were part of a group of friends who began encouraging each other to join Islamic State militants in the spring of 2014. Some of their friends made it to Syria, but the nine who were prosecuted did not.

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