A Somali-American ISIS recruiter who was alleged to have been killed in Syria is alive and still trying to recruit young men to join him.
According to law enforcement officials, Abdi Nur, 20, who left Minneapolis for Syria last year is frequently in touch online with young Somalis in Minnesota to try to entice them to join ISIS.
The officials gathered reports from young people who said that the Somali-American ISIS recruiter was always in touch with them, trying to entice them into joining them in ISIS.
Nur had been reported dead in March but according to several federal law enforcement officials, the young fighter is still alive and a full ISIS recruiter.
They said the investigation into Islamic State recruitment efforts in Minneapolis was continuing.
Abdi Nur played a role in an alleged plot by six Americans of Somali origin to travel to Syria and take up arms with the Islamic State.
The men were later arrested on Sunday in Minnesota and San Diego.
The Somali-American ISIS recruiter communicated with a person in Minnesota via the social media app Kik and also tried to help some of the arrested men obtain false passports to allow them to travel to Syria via Mexico.
One of the arrested men, Guled Ali Omar, was cited as telling other members of the conspiracy in a recorded conversation on March 16 that he thought Nur may have died in Syria because communication with him had been cut.
