Minneapolis Bridge Collapse Survivor Takes Payout, Heads For Syria

A man who survived the collapse of the I-35 Bridge over the Mississippi River in Minneapolis has taken his settlement money – said to be about $65,000 – and gone off to join ISIS in Syria. There he’s been using the money to finance weddings and cars, “passing out money like it’s candy,” according to a Minneapolis acquaintance who was secretly recorded by the FBI. In 2007 Mohamed Roble was riding in a school bus when the bridge went down, killing 13 people and seriously injuring many others, including Roble, who was 10 years old at the time. He recently turned 18, got his payout, and according to testimony in a terrorism-related trial concluding in Minneapolis, shortly thereafter headed for Syria. Roble is not among the defendants.