Rick Thornton

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In this Feb. 9, 2017 photo, Rick Thornton, special agent in charge of the Minneapolis FBI office, poses in his office in Brooklyn Center, Minn. during an interview with the Associated press. Speaking on several topics including Islamic State recruitment, Thornton said over the last decade, roughly three dozen people have left Minnesota to join militant groups in Somalia or Syria, and nine Minnesota men were sentenced last year on federal charges of conspiring to join the Islamic State group. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)