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Shop NowAbdullahi Ahmed Abdullahi, 37, a Somali Islamist formerly of San Diego and prior to that Minneapolis, was convicted of conspiring with other Islamists “engaged in violent activities such as murder, kidnapping and maiming of persons in Syria.”
According to The U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Southern District of California, Abdullahi was captured by Canadian law enforcement in October of 2019, Canada extradited Abdullahi to San Diego to face the charges against him, and he pleaded guilty to all charges on December 17, 2021.
FBI Special Agent in Charge Stacey Moy explained that “Abdullahi committed violent, unlawful acts to obtain money, then used that money to support the murder, torture, and extreme violence that ISIS represents,” according to TheBlaze.
U.S. Attorney Randy Grossman reacting to the sentence said, “Today we have delivered justice to a man who directly funded violent acts of terrorism.”
Court documents revealed that Abdullahi and his family emigrated to America from Mogadishu, Somalia. He lived in Minneapolis and then San Diego where he stayed for about six years.
In 2012, The Blaze reported, Abdullahi moved to Edmonton, Alberta. It would be there that he would commit armed robbery against VJ Jewellers on January 9, 2014. He then wired the proceeds, some $3,100 of the stolen funds, to ISIS terrorists.
According to The DOJ, the government’s sentencing memorandum and Abdullahi’s plea agreement showed “Abdullahi provided both money and personnel to support the violent jihadist activities of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), a foreign terrorist organization. From November 2013 through March 2014, Abdullahi encouraged, aided and financially assisted six North American nationals in traveling to Syria where they joined the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and engaged in armed battles to gain control of the territories and civilian populations within Syria. These six individuals included his three cousins from Edmonton, Canada, an 18-year-old cousin from Minneapolis, as well as San Diego resident Douglas McAuthur McCain.”
Abdullahi’s attorney Marc Carlos attempted to argue that his client was just helping out his “young and impressionable” cousins, but prosecutors essentially eliminated that notion with one of his messages.
According to TheBlaze he wrote, “(M)ay allah bless ur hearts and fill it with joy and happiness on the front and may u brothers bring destruction to the cowards.”
He also wrote in 2014, about his intention to join his fellow terrorists, “inshallah we[‘]ll be all together on the front lines just like I been dreaming about lately.”
