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From: To: Subject: News linet Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2019 22:20:56 +0000 Importance: Normal Coast Guard Officer Ordered to Jail, Accused of Being 'Domestic Terrorist' [Fox News] • Lt. Christopher Paul Hasson will remain in jail without bail for at least two weeks, a judge ruled Thursday (02/21/2019). • Federal agents recovered 15 guns and more than 1,000 rounds of ammunition from Hasson's Maryland apartment. • Investigators say Hasson repeatedly studied a manifesto authored by Anders Behring Breivik, the Norwegian right-wing extremist who killed 77 people in a 2011 bomb-and-shooting rampage. Prosecutor Jennifer Sykes claimed Thursday that Hasson would also log onto his government computer during work and spend hours searching for information on such people as the Unabomber, the Virginia Tech gunman and anti-abortion bomber Eric Rudolph. • Related Article: Prosecutors Haven't Proved 'Hit List' Coast Guardsman is a Terrorist: Judge [NY Post] US Citizen Charged in Kidnapping of Journalist in Somalia [Fox News] • According to a criminal complaint unsealed Thursday (02/21/2019) in New York, Abdi Yusuf Hassan was part of a conspiracy to kidnap a journalist in January 2012 in Galkayo, Somalia, and demand $20 million in ransom. EFTA00010956 • While the journalist is not named in the complaint or in a superseding indictment, the dates of his capture and release, and several details outlined in the court documents, match the experiences of author Michael Scott Moore, a German-American. In November, Moore confirmed to the New York Times that another man indicted in the case, Mohamed Tahlil Mohamed, was one of his captors. Mohamed and Hassan are listed as co-defendants. • According to court documents, Hassan, 51, was born in Mogadishu and is a naturalized U.S. citizen. He faces six counts, including kidnapping conspiracy, hostage-taking conspiracy and unlawful use of firearms. He was arrested in Minneapolis on Friday and will be returned to New York to […]