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U.S. charges Kenyan militant with researching 9/11-style airplane hijacking

U.S. charges Kenyan militant with researching 9/11-style airplane hijacking

MARK HOSENBALL U.S. prosecutors have charged a Kenya-born militant with terrorism-related offences, including conspiring to hijack aircraft for a 9/11-style attack on an American target on behalf of the Somali-based al-Shabaab militant group. Federal prosecutors in Manhattan and the U.S. Justice Department said that Cholo Abdi Abdullah, aged 30, was arrested in the Philippines in July 2019 and transferred to the United States on Tuesday to face six federal charges related to alleged terrorism. At a hearing held via electronic link on Wednesday morning, Abdullah told a U.S. magistrate judge he was pleading not guilty to all of the charges.…
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