breaking down the terror threat at home and around the world. welcome back to early start. i m christine romans. i m john berman. a naturalized and american citizen back from terror training in it syria with plans to attack on u.s. soil. the man is in custody charged with terrorist threats and lying to the fbi. our justice reporter evan perez is in washington with the latest. reporter: mohamud is the terrorist threat that the officials have warned us about for months. an american traveling overseas to fight for the al qaeda group and returning to home. the 2-year-old resident of columbus ohio provided support to the terrorist group. the fbi says mohamud became a u.s. citizen last year. in april of 2014 he flew to greece with plans to make his
it is 5:00 a.m. in the east. developing this morning, a naturalized american citizen back from terrorism training in syria with plans to attack on u.s. soil. this man now in custody. he is charged with providing material support to terrorists and lying to the fbi. evan perez is in washington with the very latest. reporter: john and christine, mohamud is the terrorist threat that the counterterrorism officials warned us about for months. an american who traveled overseas to fight for al qaeda and come back to plot an attack at home. the 23-year-old resident of columbus ohio is providing terrorist support to nusra. he became a u.s. citizen last year. two months later, in april of 2014 he flew on one way ticket to greece with plans to make his way to turkey and then to syria. justice department prosecutors say he got training in guns and
naturalized american citizen. accused of traveling from ohio to istanbul andaçq]n turkey then syria. actually making it there, and actually training with isis. recording to a federal indictment after traveling to syria, the rained to shoot trained break into house trained to work with explosives and strand with hand-to-hand come swamp after the training was done an isis cleric ordered the suspect to return to the united states and quote, commit an act of terrorism. the fbi director recently said the government has active investigations of possible home-grown terrorists in each of our 50 states. the chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge is in washington. reporter: this indictment was just unsealed by the court, and what stands out is this always that the 23-year-old want to attack an army base in texas and kill at least three soldiers.
by all of those agitating for throwing them out now. get these people who have been out of washington long. they had better decide that we if they re going to transfer people, new ones, they had better be ones who can serve them. dan? paul, we are going to miss the middle east scholar who died last week. he wrote for the journal editorial pages for nearly 30 years, he was on this channel. as a naturalized american citizen, he understood prey.com. i think his greatest desire was arab countrymen could experience that freedom. he had that fundamental american optimism that so many americans now seem to have lost. he had the courage of his convictions because he stuck with the iraq war, even though it became unpopular, like so many other public intellectuals who first supported it. even though it hurt his career. i agree with you, dan. but a gracious man throughout. throughout. gracious always. that s it for this week s show. thanks to my panel and to 0 all
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