A “mujahid walking the streets of LA” recruited three other Californians to engage in “violent jihad.”
A courtroom sketch of Sohiel Omar Kabir.
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The ringleader of what authorities described as plan to become terrorists started with Sohiel Omar Kabir, who until 2011 lived in Pomona, about 30 miles east of LA. Kabir, now 36, is a naturalized U.S. citizen who was born in Afghanistan, according to the Department of Justice. He also served in the U.S. Air Force from 2000 to 2001, the Associated Press reported.
According to the Department of Justice, Kabir reached out to Ralph Deleon and Miguel Santana Vidriales, who lived in southern California at the time. Court documents reveal that Deleon described Kabir as "basically a mujahid walking the streets of LA."
By 2012, Kabir was back in Afghanistan and telling Deleon and Santana to join him. He reportedly claimed to have made contact with terror organizations and that once the other men arrived they would could join "the students" and "the professors," which meant the Taliban and Al-Qa'ida, respectively, the DOJ reported.
The home of Miguel Alejandro Santana Vidriales of Upland, California, in 2012.
AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes
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