2020/12/17 01:36 Cholo Abdi Abdullah, 30, who was arrested in the Philippines in 2019, was transferred to US custody Tuesday on charges that he conspired to hijack an aircraft and slam it into a building. (Photo: Associated Press/Brian Inganga) WASHINGTON DC (Kurdistan 24) – The US Justice Department has charged a Kenyan national with involvement with the Somali terrorist group, al-Shabaab, in “a plot to hijack commercial aircraft and crash them into a building in the United States,” as the indictment states. Prosecutors likened the plot to the 9/11 attacks. Indeed, the Acting US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, which will conduct the prosecution, proclaimed, “This chilling callback to the horrific attacks of September 11, 2001”—which occurred only blocks away from the federal courtroom in lower Manhattan—“is a stark reminder that terrorist groups like al-Shabaab remain committed to killing US citizens and attacking the United States.”