US Man Charged for Attempt to Aid Al Shabaab After Oct 7 Attack on Israel

Published on December 30, 2023

WASHINGTON—A New Jersey man arrested in Kenya has been charged for trying to aid terrorist group al Shabaab, the U.S. Justice Department said, alleging he was motivated by Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel to wage violence. The arrest comes amid heightened incidents of antisemitism and Islamophobia in the wake of the Israel-Gaza war, which have raised terror threat levels in the United States. Karrem Nasr, a U.S. citizen who moved from New Jersey to Egypt around July, was taken into custody in Nairobi on Dec. 14 and brought to the United States on Thursday, the Justice Department said in a statement on Friday....

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