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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)

Thornton: FBI still investigating Minnesota mall stabbing

By AMY FORLITI - Associated Press

Minnesota Lt. Gov. Tina Smith, from left, Gov. Mark Dayton, St. Cloud Police Chief William Blair Anderson, and St. Cloud Mayor David Kleis hold a press conference after meeting at St. Cloud City Hall Monday, Sept. 19, 2016. Authorities are treating Saturday’s stabbings at Crossroads Mall, as a possible act of terrorism, in part because an Islamic State-run news agency claimed that the attacker was a “soldier of the Islamic State” who had heeded the group’s calls for attacks in countries that are part of a U.S.-led anti-IS coalition. (Leila Navidi/Star Tribune via AP)

FBI: Minnesota mall attacker newly interested in Islam

By AMY FORLITI - Associated Press