Mujahid Miski (born Muhammed Abdullahi Hassan) is a Somali permanent resident of the United States wanted by the

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for providing material support to the Somalia-based terrorist group al-Shabaab. Miski reportedly left Minnesota for Somalia as a teenager in 2008 to join al-Shabaab. Miski has been an active propagandist and recruiter for ISIS and al-Shabaab on

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, leading the

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(CEP) to call on Twitter to permanently block his accounts. Miski had reportedly been in contact "for months" with Elton Simpson, one of the two shooters responsible for the May 3, 2015

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on the American Freedom Defense Initiative's "Muhammad Art Exhibit and Cartoon Contest" in Garland, Texas. On December 7, 2015, the U.S. State Department issued a statement saying that Miski had "surrendered to the Federal Government of Somalia on November 6, 2015."

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