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USA v. Jama, Muna Osama, et al.

June 2014 (Updated October 29, 2021)
Reston, VA
Al-Shabaab

[EDVA] Muna Osman Jama, Hinda Osman Dhirane and Farhia Hassan were charged in a criminal indictment with providing material support to the Somali terrorist group, al-Shabaab. The case was transferred from the Western District of Washington District Court to the Eastern District of Virginia (EDVA). Jama and Dhirane were sentenced to 12 years and 11 years respectively for providing material support to al-Shabaab. After more than seven years of extradition proceedings in the Netherlands, Farhia Hassan was brought by the FBI to the United States in October 2021. She faces charges stemming from her alleged participation in a terrorist financing ring in support of the Somalia-based terrorist group al-Shabaab.

Related Topics: Material Support, Prosecutions, Terror Financing

Case Updates

2021-10-29 | Dutch National Faces Charges for Participation in Terror Financing Ring

After more than seven years of extradition proceedings in the Netherlands, Farhia Hassan was brought by the FBI to the United States yesterday made her initial appearance today in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia to face charges stemming from her alleged participation in a terrorist financing ring in support of the Somalia-based terrorist group al-Shabaab. Farhia Hassan was allegedly involved with a group of women from more than a dozen countries around the world who ran a fundraising ring to provide financial support to al-Shabaab from in or about February 2011 through in or about July 2014. Through conduits in Nairobi, Kenya, and Hargeisa, Somalia, the group of women allegedly funneled cash payments via money remitters directly to members of the terrorist group. According to members of the conspiracy, the money was used to fund safehouses and to purchase trucks and weaponry in support of al-Shabaab. The women allegedly coordinated the payments using online chatrooms. Hassan, in particular, was allegedly involved in fundraising in the Netherlands under false pretenses by representing to donors that money was being collected to fund charitable ventures, such as schools for orphans, when it was in fact being funneled to terrorists. Two U.S.-based members of the fundraising ring, Muna Osman Jama, 41, of Reston, and Hinda Osman Dhirane, 51, of Kent, Washington, were convicted in 2016 for their participation and were sentenced to 12 and 11 years imprisonment, respectively. Hassan is charged with conspiracy to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization.

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