{"id":15008,"date":"2016-11-16T07:52:42","date_gmt":"2016-11-16T07:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=15008"},"modified":"2016-11-16T07:52:42","modified_gmt":"2016-11-16T07:52:42","slug":"final-3-minnesotans-sentenced-islamic-state-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/final-3-minnesotans-sentenced-islamic-state-case.html","title":{"rendered":"Final 3 Minnesotans to be sentenced in Islamic State case"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Final 3 Minnesotans to be sentenced in Islamic State case<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">MINNEAPOLIS \u2013 Sentencing hearings are wrapping up for nine men convicted of plotting to travel to Syria to join the Islamic State group.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The final three defendants \u2014 Guled Omar, Mohamed Farah and Abdirahman Daud \u2014 will be sentenced Wednesday. Prosecutors say the 22-year-old men are part of a group of friends in Minnesota&#8217;s large Somali community who inspired each other to join the militant group.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Six men who pleaded guilty were sentenced on Monday and Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Omar, Farah and Daud took their case to trial and were convicted of conspiracy to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization, as well as a more serious count of conspiracy to commit murder outside the U.S.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">That count carries a possible life sentence, but prosecutors are seeking sentences of 40 and 30 years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">Source:\u00a0http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2016\/11\/16\/final-3-minnesotans-to-be-sentenced-in-islamic-state-case.html<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/final-3-minnesotans-sentenced-islamic-state-case.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Final 3 Minnesotans to be sentenced in Islamic State case MINNEAPOLIS \u2013 Sentencing hearings are wrapping up for nine men convicted of plotting to travel to Syria to join the Islamic State group. The final three defendants \u2014 Guled Omar, Mohamed Farah and Abdirahman Daud \u2014 will be sentenced Wednesday. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15010,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[699,9205,9202,9203,3242,9204],"class_list":["post-15008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-crime-news","tag-final-3-minnesotans-to-be-sentenced-in-islamic-state-case","tag-islamic-state-case","tag-latest-news","tag-minnesotans-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}