Defendant Traveled to Somalia to Join Foreign Fighter Corps
NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–January 29, 2016. Mahdi Hashi, 26, a Somali national, was sentenced to nine years in prison by U.S. District Judge John Gleeson of the Eastern District of New York for conspiring to provide material support to al-Shabaab, a designated foreign terrorist organization. The defendant traveled from the United Kingdom to Somalia to join the terrorist group. While in Somalia, the defendant was affiliated with the…
