Somali Terror Suspect's Light Sentence Raises Questions

When federal agents stopped 18-year-old Abdullahi Yusuf at the Minneapolis airport last May he had a ticket to Istanbul, Turkey. The Somali-American teen had gotten a passport just a few weeks earlier. He hadn’t told his father where he was going. But the Federal Bureau of Investigation believed he wanted to join terrorist fighters battling the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad. And that, the U.S. government says, is against the law. In November, federal prosecutors charged Yusuf with...

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