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Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2019 22:20:56 +0000 
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Coast Guard Officer Ordered to Jail, Accused of Being  'Domestic Terrorist' [Fox News] 
• Lt. Christopher Paul Hasson will remain in jail without bail for at least two weeks, a judge ruled Thursday 
(02/21/2019). 
• Federal agents recovered 15 guns and more than 1,000 rounds of ammunition from Hasson's Maryland 
apartment. 
• Investigators say Hasson repeatedly studied a manifesto authored by Anders Behring Breivik, the 
Norwegian right-wing extremist who killed 77 people in a 2011 bomb-and-shooting rampage. Prosecutor 
Jennifer Sykes claimed Thursday that Hasson would also log onto his government computer during work 
and spend hours searching for information on such people as the Unabomber, the Virginia Tech gunman 
and anti-abortion bomber Eric Rudolph. 
• Related Article: Prosecutors Haven't Proved 'Hit List' Coast Guardsman is a Terrorist: Judge [NY Post] 
US Citizen Charged in Kidnapping  of Journalist in Somalia [Fox News] 
• According to a criminal complaint unsealed Thursday (02/21/2019) in New York, Abdi Yusuf Hassan was 
part of a conspiracy to kidnap a journalist in January 2012 in Galkayo, Somalia, and demand $20 million in 
ransom. 
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• While the journalist is not named in the complaint or in a superseding indictment, the dates of his 
capture and release, and several details outlined in the court documents, match the experiences of 
author Michael Scott Moore, a German-American. In November, Moore confirmed to the New York Times 
that another man indicted in the case, Mohamed Tahlil Mohamed, was one of his captors. Mohamed and 
Hassan are listed as co-defendants. 
• According to court documents, Hassan, 51, was born in Mogadishu and is a naturalized U.S. citizen. He 
faces six counts, including kidnapping conspiracy, hostage-taking conspiracy and unlawful use of firearms. 
He was arrested in Minneapolis on Friday and will be returned to New York to…
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