- Ahmed Mahad Mohamed, 27, and Abdi Yemeni Hussein, 26, both Somali citizens living in Tucson, were sentenced for conspiring to join ISIS. Mohamed received 132 months in prison, and Hussein received 96 months, followed by lifetime supervised release.
- The two men pleaded guilty in August 2024 to conspiracy to provide material support to ISIS, planning to travel to Egypt to fight for the group in the Sinai Peninsula. Their scheme was uncovered before execution, leading to their arrest at Tucson International Airport in July 2019.
- Mohamed had expressed desires online to become “the beheading guy” for ISIS and to martyr himself, while both he and Hussein had been conspiring since late 2018 or early 2019.
- After serving their prison terms, both men will be deported to Somalia. Read More
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