A judge on Monday ordered two New Jersey men jailed until their next court appearance on charges they planned to meet Islamist militants in Somalia with the intent to kill troops and other people.
Mohamed Mahmood Alessa, 20, and Carlos Eduardo Almonte, 24, were arrested at New York’s John F. Kennedy airport on Saturday as they tried to board separate flights to Egypt on their way to Somalia, U.S. prosecutors said.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Madeline Cox Arleo ordered them held until a bail hearing on Thursday during a five-minute proceeding in a packed New Jersey federal courtroom.
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