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MINNESOTA<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Three men were sentenced Monday in federal court for conspiring to help the terrorist organization ISIS.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Courtroom\"Abdullahi Yusuf<\/strong>, 20, of Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota, \u00a0was sentenced to 20 years supervised release. Abdirizak Warsame,<\/strong> 21, of Eagan, Minnesota, was sentenced to two years and six months in prison and Zacharia Abdurahman,<\/strong> 21, of Columbia Heights, Minnesota, was sentenced to 10 years in prison, according to officials.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe hard work of rehabilitating those who seek to engage in ideological violence must continue,\u201d said U.S. Attorney Andrew M. Luger. \u201cJudge Davis recognized that fact today in his considered sentences for those defendants who cooperated with the government and have begun to disengage from ISIL\u2019s violent ideology.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The three are the first of nine defendants expected to be sentenced this week for conspiring to provide material support to ISIS, officials said.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to his guilty plea, in April 2014, Yusuf applied for an expedited U.S. Passport at the Minneapolis Passport Office.<\/span><\/p>\n

The following month, Yusuf attempted to travel from the Minneapolis\u2013St. Paul International Airport in Minneapolis to Istanbul, Turkey, to join ISIL.<\/span><\/p>\n

He was stopped at the airport by federal agents. Yusuf pleaded guilty on Feb. 26, 2015. Yusuf cooperated with the U.S. and testified at the trial of three of his co-conspirators.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to his guilty plea, Warsame participated in the conspiracy throughout 2014 and early 2015 in various capacities, including serving briefly as \u201cemir\u201d of the co-conspirators, and helping unindicted co-conspirator, Yusuf Jama, obtain contact information to aid his joining ISIL in Syria.<\/span><\/p>\n

Warsame pleaded guilty on Feb. 11. Warsame cooperated with the U.S. and testified at the trial of three of his co-conspirators.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to his guilty plea, in November 2014, Abdurahman and three co-conspirators traveled by bus from Minneapolis to JFK airport in New York, where they attempted to fly overseas to join ISIL in Syria.<\/span><\/p>\n

They were stopped from flying and questioned by federal agents before returning to Minnesota. D<\/span><\/p>\n

Despite being stopped from traveling in November 2014, Abdurahman and the co-conspirators continued to discuss and plan another attempt to travel to Syria to join ISIL. Abdurahman pleaded guilty on Sept. 17, 2015, according to officials.<\/span><\/p>\n

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**This case is the result of an investigation conducted by members of the FBI-led Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF). The JTTF includes members from the following departments: U.S. Marshals Service, Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, Bloomington Police Department in Minnesota, St. Paul Police Department in Minnesota, Ramsey County Sheriff\u2019s Office in Minnesota, Hennepin County Sheriff\u2019s Office in Minnesota, Federal Air Marshals Service, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Department of Defense, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Minneapolis Police Department, Burnsville Police Department in Minnesota, Department of State, Airport Police, Criminal Investigation Division of the IRS and the FBI.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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