Just last week, an 18-year-old Twin Cities man was arrested for allegedly planning to kill people at Mall of America. He’s also accused of supporting ISIS, a terrorist organization.
In 2016, there was a wave of young men from Minnesota who pledged allegiance to ISIS. Some were tried and convicted. One was killed in Syria while fighting for the terror group. The prosecutor for the case was former U.S. Attorney Andy Luger, who served from 2014 to 2017, and again from 2022 to 2025.
Luger says ISIS is still recruiting in Minnesota, though not as aggressively as it was 10 years ago…