U.S. officials yesterday unsealed indictments identifying what they said were key actors in a recruitment effort that led about 20 young American men to join an extremist rebel group in Somalia with ties to al-Qaida. With eight new suspects implicated yesterday, the authorities have charged 14 people in the case, one of the most extensive domestic-terrorism investigations since the Sept. 11 attacks.
The new suspects, many of whom came of age as African refugees in the American heartland, face charges that include providing material support to a terrorist organization and conspiring to kill, maim, kidnap or injure people outside the U.S.
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