# ISIL recruitment cases
*Subject entry: the 2015 ISIL recruitment cases against Twin Cities men, covered only as far as the present record reaches.*
The ISIL recruitment cases are federal cases from 2015 in which men from the Twin Cities were convicted.[^1] The project record holds one at-issue item on the subject. It concerns where two of the convicted men were held: the [[Sherburne County Jail]] in [[Elk River]].[^1]
The record establishes the place of detention for two defendants, [[Guled Ali Omar]] and [[Hanad Mustafe Musse]]. It does not establish whether the other defendants were held in Elk River, and this entry does not assert it.[^1]
## What
Omar gave interviews from the Sherburne County jail and received a sentence of 35 years.[^1] Musse wrote to the judge from the same jail.[^1] The at-issue item is flagged as adjudicated as to these two men and not verified as to the other defendants.[^1]
## When
The record dates the cases to 2015.[^1] It carries no dates for charging, trial, sentencing or the periods of detention.[^1]
## In the at-issue record
The item is AI-Sherburne-093, ranked 93 in the section *IV. The Ask (86–100)* of the project's at-issue list, in its Sherburne package.[^1] It is anchored to a White House release dated May 2026. The project gives its reason for the anchor as the federal docket's physical infrastructure, "stated only to the limit of the record".[^1] The item lists two underlying sources, an agency source at justice.gov and a news source at postbulletin.com. Neither source is citable from this pack.[^1]
## Notes
[^1]: White House, *Trump Administration's Full-Scale War on Fraud* (May 2026) — anchor of at-issue item AI-Sherburne-093, which records that Guled Ali Omar was held at the Sherburne County jail in Elk River, gave interviews from it and received 35 years; that Hanad Mustafe Musse wrote to the judge from it; and that the item is adjudicated as to those two and not verified as to other defendants. https://www.whitehouse.gov/releases/2026/05/trump-administrations-full-scale-war-on-fraud/