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Man charged with making threats in Islamic State group case

A Minneapolis man was charged Friday with threatening law enforcement officials and writing on Twitter that a "massacre" would happen if authorities did not free six men who were arrested earlier this week and accused of trying to travel to Syria to join the Islamic State group.

 

According to an FBI affidavit, Mahamed Abukar Said used his Twitter account to threaten to kill a federal law enforcement official and demand that the men be freed. In one tweet on Wednesday, Said wrote, "the Feds are getting two choices. Either they gon free my bros or the gon have a massacre happen then they gon take me too," the affidavit said.

 

Said also used Twitter to retaliate against a man who cooperated with authorities, the affidavit said, and posted a picture of the informant on Thursday.

 


פרסום ראשון: 04.25.15, 09:30