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USA v. Al-Madioum, Abdelhamid

September 2020 (Updated January 14, 2021)
St. Louis Park, MN
ISIS

Abdelhamid Al-Madioum of St. Louis Park, Minnesota, has been charged by indictment with providing material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS). He was detained overseas by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and was then transferred into FBI custody. From 2015 through March 2019, Al-Madioum knowingly provided material support and resources, including personnel (namely himself) and services to ISIS. In June 2015, Al-Madioum, a native of Morocco and naturalized U.S. citizen, and his family traveled from St. Louis Park, Minnesota, to Casablanca, Morocco, to visit their extended family. In July 2015, he left Morocco and traveled to Istanbul, Turkey, and then on to Iraq and Syria, where he joined ISIS. In March of 2019, he was captured and detained by the SDF. Al-Madioum pled guilty in January 2021 to one count of providing material support and resources, namely personnel and services, to ISIS.

Case Updates

2021-01-14 | Minnesota Man Pleads Guilty to Providing Material Support to ISIS

Abdelhamid Al-Madioum pled guilty to one count of providing material support and resources, namely personnel and services, to ISIS, a designated foreign terrorist organization. He previously had been detained overseas by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and was subsequently transferred into FBI custody and returned to Minnesota. In June 2015, Al-Madioum and his family traveled from St. Louis Park, Minnesota, to Casablanca, Morocco, to visit their extended family. In July 2015, Al-Madioum left Morocco and traveled to Istanbul, Turkey. There, Al-Madioum met up with members of ISIS who aided his border-crossing into Syria. Once in Syria, the defendant joined other members of ISIS who brought him to Mosul, Iraq. After Al-Madioum arrived in Mosul, he was administratively ISIS and received military training from its members. Al-Madioum was then assigned to the Tariq Bin-Ziyad Battalion of the Abu Mutaz al-Qurashi Division of ISIS, where he served as a solider for ISIS until 2016, when he was injured conducting military activities on behalf of ISIS. Following Al-Madioum's injury, he remained a member of ISIS and continued to receive a stipend until his surrender to the SDF in or near Baghouz, Syria, in March of 2019. In September of 2020, Al-Madioum was returned to Minnesota.

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