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A federal judge sentenced a Somali man to 10 years in prison for lying on his asylum application about his association with terrorist entities Al Barakat and Al Ittihad Al Islamiyah. Ahmed Muhammed Dhakane was arrested in 2008 in Texas after illegally crossing the Mexican border. He ran a human smuggling operation, and is believed to have helped “violent jihadists” enter the US.

Bill Roggio is a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and the Editor of FDD's Long War Journal.

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