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Georgia jailers, corrections officers learning to intercept terrorist radicalization
By macon.com- Liz Fabian
Published: 11/09/2015

When Somali terrorist group al-Shabaab first made headlines, Putnam County Sheriff Howard Sills thought he might have been the only local lawman in Georgia familiar with the group.

In 2002, Sills arrested Malachi York, founder of the Nuwabian Nation of Moors, who had ties to the Middle East, he said.

"I knew of some of the earlier Islamic terrorist organizations because of York," Sills said.

In 2009, York unsuccessfully petitioned to appeal his 2004 child molestation conviction and 135-year sentence on grounds that he was a Liberian diplomat and citizen not under U.S. jurisdiction.

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