St. Louis, November 5, 2011 – A refugee from Somalia who worked as an airport cab driver in St. Louis has pleaded guilty to funding terrorism in Somalia.

The U.S. Attorney's office in St. Louis says 31-year-old Mohamud Abdi Yusuf entered the guilty plea Thursday, admitting that he raised nearly $6,000 for al-Shabaab, which was trying to overthrown the provisional government in Somalia. The U.S. government named al-Shabaab a terrorist organization in 2008.

Yusuf admitted to soliciting money and coordinating the transfer of the money to al-Shabaab.

The case was the first post-Sept. 11, 2001, international terrorism case in federal court in St. Louis.

Sentencing is Jan. 31, and Yusuf faces up to 15 years in prison.

Source: The Associated Press

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