SAN DIEGO, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- A Southern California man sent money to a Somali militia branded as a foreign terrorist organization, federal prosecutors in San Diego say.
Ahmed Nasir Taalil Mohamud, 35, of Anaheim, was indicted Friday on conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists, conspiracy to kill in a foreign country and money-laundering, The Orange County Register reported.
Mohamud appeared in federal court in San Diego, where U.S. Magistrate Judge Jan Adler ordered him held without bail pending a hearing Tuesday.
Mohamud plotted with Basaaly Saeed Moalin, Mohamed Mohamed Mohamud and Issa Doreh to send money to al-Shabaab, a militia in Somalia that the State Department has designated a foreign terrorist organization, prosecutors said.
Several transfers of money from San Diego to Somalia in 2008 totaled $10,930, the indictment said.
The government says al-Shabaab employs assassinations, improvised explosive devices, rockets, mortars, automatic weapons, suicide bombings and other tactics of intimidation and violence.
The other three men face similar charges in a separate indictment. UPI
