Federal authorities say that a young man from the United States -- now fighting for the Islamic State (IS) in Syria -- used funds garnered from a settlement in the 2007 Minnesota bridge collapse to finance his trip, as well as pay for for cars and weddings of his fellow jihadis, the Clarion Project website reports today (August 29, 2016).
Mohamed Amin Ali Roble, 20, was one of 145 people injured when the I-35W Mississippi River bridge suddenly collapsed due to a design flaw, killing 13 people.
Roble was one of a group of men from Minneapolis who were recruited by the Islamic State, and planned to travel to Syria to fight for the terror group.
In 2014, when Roble was 18, he was given the settlement money in the case, an amount of $91,654 paid by the state of Minnesota, a contractor, and an engineering firm.
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