A US federal court has put on trial three Somali-American men from the US state of Minnesota on charges of plotting to join and help the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group (ISIL) in Syria.
On Tuesday, the US District Court in Minnesota tried Mohamed Farah, 22, Abdirahman Daud, 22, and Guled Omar, 21, over conspiring to provide material support to the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group and to commit murder outside the US, charges that could carry a possible life sentence for each of them in case of conviction.
“They participated wholeheartedly in the conspiracy from early 2014 through April 2015,” said Assistant Attorney John Docherty, adding that, “They were going to put themselves under the control of ISIL, and they knew that they would be ordered to kill and would have to carry out those orders.”
According to state officials, the three men are allegedly part of a group of 10 people that faced similar federal charges earlier. Six of them have already…