U.S. charges 14 with giving support to Somali insurgent group
Federal authorities unsealed terrorism-related charges Thursday against 14 people accused of providing funding and recruits to a militant group in Somalia with ties to al-Qaeda, part of an expanding U.S. effort to disrupt what Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. called a “deadly pipeline” of money and fighters to al-Shabab.
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