The two U.S. women — Muna Osman Jama, 34, of Reston, and Hinda Osman Dhirane, 44, of Kent, Washington — were arrested Wednesday and have been charged with 20 counts each of providing material support to a foreign terrorist group, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Virginia. The U.S. designated al-Shabab as a terrorist group in 2008; in 2012, leaders of al-Shabab and al-Qaida announced they were merging.
Jama faced an initial appearance Wednesday afternoon at the federal courthouse in Alexandria, and Dhirane appeared in U.S. District Court in Seattle. Dhirane's husband, Rashid Jama Barhadle, told Seattle's KING-TV that she has done nothing wrong.
"The FBI come 4 in the morning, around 10 cars," he said. "They knock my door too hard and scared my kids. I have 5-year-old, she cried."
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