NEW YORK (AP) — An East African man has pleaded guilty in New York to U.S. charges he supported terrorism by associating with a violent extremist group in Somalia.
Mohamed Ibrahim Ahmed entered the plea Wednesday in federal court in Manhattan.
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Ahmed was detained in Nigeria in 2009 before being turned over to U.S. authorities. Prosecutors in New York had accused the Eritrean (ehr-ih-TREE’-uhn) man of receiving explosives training, buying an assault rifle and raising money for al-Shabaab.
Al-Shabaab was designated by the U.S. as a terrorist group in 2008.
Ahmed faces a possible 10-year term at sentencing on Nov. 2.
