Appendices

1. Support for Al-Shabaab in 2009/2010 –total of 31 cases

• 2009 Minnesota indictments (Mahamud Said Omar, Kamal Hassan, Afdifatah Yusuf Isse, Salah Osman Ahmed, Omer Abdi Mohamed) – The FBI considers these indictments a group, though they were resolved at different times; Said Omar was indicted for material support and is currently awaiting extradition from the Netherlands to the United States; Hassan pleaded guilty in February 2009 to providing material support to al-Shabaab; Isse and Ahmed have both pled guilty to providing material support to terrorists in different cases; and Omer Abdi Mohamed was charged with providing material support to al Shabaab.[1]
• 14 Shabaab indictments (Amina Ali, Hawo Hassan, Omar Hammami, Jehad Serwan Mostafa, Abdikadir Ali Abdi, Abdisalan Hussein Ali, Cabdulaahi Ahmed Faarax, Farah Mohamed Beledi, Abdiweli Yassin Isse, Ahmed Ali Omar, Khalid Mohamud Abshir, Zakaria Maruf, Mohamed Abdullahi Hassan, and Mustafa Ali Salat) – in August 2010 indictments were unsealed against 14 people for involvement in fundraising and providing other support for al-Shabaab. Amina Ali and Hawo Hassan were charged with organizing fundraising for the group, Hammami and Mostafa were charged with providing personnel support, and the others were charged with recruiting and traveling to fight for the organization. The indictments against Hammami and Mostafa were filed in 2009 but unsealed in 2010, and Faarax, Isse, Ahmed Ali Omar, Abshir, Maruf, Hassan, and Salat had previously been charged in 2009.[2]
• San Diego fundraising (Isse Doreh, Mohamed Mohamud, Basaaly Saeed Moalin, Ahmed Nasir Taalil Mohamud) – these three were indicted in November 2010 for being part of a group that raised money in the San Diego area for al-Shabaab, and Moalin is additionally accused of having provided a house in Somalia for use by al-Shabaab.[3] Ahmed Mohamud was indicted in December 2010, and is alleged to have connections to that fundraising ring.[4]
• St. Louis fundraising (Mohamud Abdi Yusuf, Abdi Mahdi Hussein, Duane Mohamed Diriye) – these men were indicted in October 2010 for funneling money through Hussein, who worked at a Minnesota money transfer company and allegedly structured the movement of money so as not to raise attention.[5]
• Nima Ali Yusuf – Yusuf was indicted in November 2010 for raising several hundred dollars for al-Shabaab as well as recruiting at least one person to fight for the group.[6]
• Shaker Masri – Masri was arrested on August 3, 2010, just before his departure from the United States, allegedly in order to join al-Shabaab.[7]
• Mahmoud Alessa and Carlos Almonte – federal investigators covertly recorded several years’ worth of conversations between the two about waging jihad abroad, culminating in their June 5, 2010 arrest at John F. Kennedy Airport on their way to Somalia to join al-Shabaab.[8]
• Zachary Chesser – Chesser admitted to attempting to join al-Shabaab, a charge which helped earn him a 25-year sentence in February 2011.[9]

2. FBI Sting Operations in 2009-2010 – total of 11 cases

• Newburgh Synagogue plot (James Cromitie, David Williams, Onta Williams, Laguerre Payen) – The four men participated in a plot to bomb Bronx-area synagogues and shoot down airplanes at Stewart Air National Guard Base, a plot partially organized by paid government informant Shahed Hussain.[10]
• Michael Finton - Finton worked with undercover government agents in his plot to detonate an FBI-supplied inert explosive in front of a federal courthouse in Springfield, Illinois.[11]
• Hosam Smadi – undercover FBI agents contacted Smadi after noticing extremist postings online, and posed as an al-Qaeda sleeper cell. They provided Smadi with an inert bomb that Smadi then attempted to detonate in Dallas.[12]
• Farooque Ahmed - in a period between April and October 2010, Ahmed allegedly met with undercover federal agents whom he thought were representatives of al-Qaeda. Ahmed allegedly took mission taskings from them, suggested targets for bombing, and scouted several Washington, DC-area metro stations on their instruction.[13]
• Mohamed Osman Mohamud – Mohamud, along with undercover FBI agents, allegedly scouted targets in Portland, detonated an explosive in the Oregon woods, and plotted to attack the Portland Christmas tree-lighting ceremony with an inert bomb that the FBI had constructed.[14]
• Antonio Martinez – Martinez plotted withan FBI confidential informantand then an FBI undercover agent to detonate a bomb--which the FBI had rendered inert--outside of an Army recruitment center in Maryland.[15]
• Ahmed Ferhani and Mohamed Mamdouh – Ferhani and Mamdouh were secretly recorded by an NYPD undercover officer allegedly discussing their hatred of Jews and plotting to dress as Hasidic Jews in order to infiltrate and attack a New York synagogue. They were arrested after Ferhani purchased three handguns and a grenade from an undercover officer.[16]