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ISIS Suspect Plotted to Bring Syrian Jihadis to US via Mexico

A lawyer for one of four American men on trial for attempting to join the Islamic State is attempting to stop prosecutors from introducing evidence that at least one of them, Guled Ali Omar, 21, wanted to open up routes for jihadis from Syria to infiltrate the U.S. through Mexico.

The routes would then be used to carry out terrorist attacks in America.

Three other men are are trial with Omar: Hamza Naj Ahmed, 21; Mohamed Abdihamid Farah, 22; and Abdirahman Yasin Daud, 22. They are all from the Somali community in Minnesota.

Defense lawyers for Daud claimed that without any specific evidence that their client threatened the U.S., any references during the trial to such attacks would prejudice the jury.