Mohammed Warsame

(1973-08-12) August 12, 1973 (age 51)[1]) is a Canadian citizen who was arrested in 2003 by American police (FBI) in Minneapolis who accused him of attending an Afghan training camp and fighting alongside Taliban forces in the country,[2] and charged him with conspiring to provide support to terrorists.

[1] From 2000-2001, Warsame said he was intrigued by the "utopian"[1] society he had heard existed in Afghanistan, and travelled to the country where he attended two Afghan training camps using the kunya name Abu Maryam.

[1][3] He is additionally said to have fought Northern Alliance troops twice to stabilise Taliban control of the country, and to have eaten meals with Osama bin Laden.

[7] The following year he moved to the United States permanently with his wife and daughter, and enrolled at the Minneapolis Community and Technical College, where he also tutored computer science students.

[1][5] He was arrested the following day and held in secret detention at Hennepin County jail for two weeks, during which police registered him under an anonymous name and didn't allow a paper trail when public defender Dan Scott met with Warsame.

[7] The FBI originally claimed that he had lied to them, and charged him with providing false information,[3] although he was later listed as having been fully honest with law enforcement from the beginning of his questioning.

[7] On May 20, 2009, federal prosecutors announced that Warsame pleaded guilty to one count of "conspiring to support al-Qaida", with the remaining charges dismissed.