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Seem way beyond 20-some odd convert from long island should be involved in. >> reporter: an american, so radicalized, so dangerous, he is willing to help al qaeda plot bombings that could kill his own friends and even his own family on long island. >> this a conventional war, you have companies. you have divisions. you have brigades. you have battalions. in this war every single person counts. every single individual goes over there like him is somebody we cant miss. >> reporter: but the tables ...

Forrest gump of the jihad in the sense he seems to find this way to get himself involved in operations or attacks that seem way beyond 20-some odd convert from long island should be involved in. >> reporter: an american so radicalized, so dangerous, he is willing to help al qaeda plot bombings that could kill his own friends and even his own family on long island. >> in a conventional war, you have companies, you have divisions, you have brigades, you have battalions. in this war, every single p...

U.s. troops, but also helped him hook up with contacts here in pakistan who then introduced him to militants on the border of afghanistan. he denies this. >> it seems like hes involved with military action out there. >> reporter: he actually joins militants on a mission targeting u.s. troops in afghanistan. >> we almost called him the forest gum p of the jihad. he seems to find this way to get himself involved in operations or attacks that seem way beyond 20-some odd convert from long island sho...