U.S: Suspected ISIS recruiter turns himself in

Mohamed Abdulahi Hassan, an American fugitive, has turned himself in to authorities, the State Department announced today.

Known as ‘Miski’ online, officials say he is suspected of recruiting impressionable young men for terrorist groups including ISIS and was linked to at least one domestic terror attack in the U.S.

He surrendered to the government of Somalia early last month, a State Department spokesperson told reporters.

Hassan has been wanted by the FBI since he left the U.S. in 2009 for allegedly providing “material support” to the al Qaeda-linked terrorist group al-Shabab in Somalia, often purportedly by convincing young American recruits to join.

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U.S. officials accuse Hassan of since moving on to recruiting for the Syria-based terror group ISIS.
Investigators are also trying to determine if the couple who killed 14 people in San Bernardino last week had any online connection with Hassan in the months before he turned himself in.

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