Younger siblings arrested in Islamic State case
CHICAGO - The younger siblings of a man charged with seeking to join Islamic State militants in Syria were arrested with their brother last month, federal prosecutors said during a Monday hearing.
Mohammed Hamzah Khan's siblings were arrested along with the 19-year-old on October 4 at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport, prosecutors said. The siblings are ages 16 and 17. They haven't been charged in the case.
Attorneys didn't name the minors but said that they, like their brother, had expressed a passion for committing violence. The three not only had "barbaric rhetoric," but intended to act on it, prosecutors said.
