Biography
Karrem Nasr was critic of the U.S government living in Egypt who had been making anti-American Facebook posts when an undercover FBI agent befriended him posing as a member of the Somali militant group al-Shabaab. The al-Shabaab rebels control around 30% of Somalia and have been participants in the country's civil war since 2006. The agent convinced Nasr to travel to Somalia but when he arrived in Kenya he was immediately arrested and then deported to the United States. He was charged with providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization and sentenced to 5 years in federal prison plus an additional 15 years supervised release.
Portrait provenance
Karrem Nasr, individually identified in CONAN Daily reporting on his December 2023 arrest and federal case. Original photographer and photograph date unspecified. Source photograph reproduced in full, without cropping, resizing, retouching or generated details. This is a portrait, not a documented booking or arrest photograph.
