A 19-year-old Minneapolis man accused of lying to federal agents during a terrorism investigation will remain behind bars for now.
At a detention hearing Monday, U.S. Magistrate Judge Steven Rau said he was concerned about tweets that Hamza Ahmed posted on Twitter before he tried to leave for the Middle East in November. Federal authorities suspect he was trying to travel to Syria, possibly to join the terror group ISIS.
Prosecutors argued that Ahmed's tweets suggested he was willing to be a martyr and was therefore a danger to the community.
On his Twitter account, Ahmed tweeted his sense of feeling conflicted about living in Minnesota while the violence continued in Syria. "Ya Allah give me the chance to Help and fight for the Muslims in Syria," he wrote in November 2013. About a month later, he mused, "Staying here just seems to kill part of me everyday."![]()
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