one blogger on the site is now thought to be in yemen working with outlawed cleric anwar al awlaki. the site praised osama bin laden and applauded a muslim u.s. army major, nadal hasan, now charged with killing 13 people at ft. hood. the site described the u.s. as a terrorist state that was attacking islam. and the abolishment of america s war against islam. reporter: revolution muslim, by khattab s own account was a bug light for muslim misfits. now he says it was all wrong. it was an idiotic thing, looking back at things now. reporter: by cnn s count in just the last 18 months, eight of the 27 reported cases of home grown terrorism saw u.s. terror suspects frequenting, blogging on or directly linked to revolution muslim and another
far-flung country, pursued by the fbi most likely for the rest of their lives. it s interesting, a lot of the folks who run these kind of websites, they seem happy to encourage other folks to go out and blow themselves up from the safety of their, you new york city their little room where they have this website. does no one is this website now down? reporter: the revolution muslim website based in the united states is down. it is resurfacing overseas as another website. i won t give you the name of that, anderson. right. reporter: you ll be directed to it, but the other member of this group is now overseas, he is trying to start a new website. it s the same was that the guy you talked to, the guy reporter: that s right. so he s now gone overseas? reporter: by our account he s in morocco. we believe he s in morocco now, and trying to start again, start anew. these two men have had a falling apart, khattab is trying to stay in the united states, trying to
little room where they have this website. is this website now down? reporter: the revolution muslim website based in the united states is down. it is resurfacing overseas as another website. i won t give you the name of that, anderson. right. good. reporter: you ll be directed to it, but the other member of this group is now overseas, he is trying to start a new website. it s the same was that the guy you talked to, the guy reporter: that s right. so he s now gone overseas? reporter: by our account he s in morocco. we believe he s in morocco now, and trying to start again, start anew. these two men have had a falling apart, khattab is trying to stay in the united states, trying to get his act together and i believe trying to get off the fbi radar because he s afraid he s going to end up being one of these people being arrested like the one arrested today. authorities wouldn t comment, but if they re proselytizing
and trying to start again, start anew. these two men have had a falling apart, khattab is trying to stay in the united states, trying to get his act together and i believe trying to get off the fbi radar because he s afraid he s going to end up being one of these people being arrested like the one arrested today. authorities wouldn t comment, but if they re proselytizing like this in new york city, clearly the police department good intelligence service, was clearly watching them and aware of their activities. but fascinating development. i mean, did this did this surprise you, drew, when you got this call, that you heard it, this guy had allegedly had a change of heart? reporter: what surprised me is he was willing to go on camera and say this. because they were really annoyed at the reporting you had done on this and that we had aired on this. absolutely. still annoyed. they re going to be annoyed tonight by everything we ve just put on the air. well, such is life.
now he says it was all wrong. it was an idiotic thing, looking back at things now. reporter: by cnn s count in just the last 18 months, eight of the 27 reported cases of home grown terrorism saw u.s. terror suspects frequenting, blogging on or directly linked to revolution muslim and another extremist group he played a role in. do i regret the part that they were on there? honestly, i regret anybody that would hurt an american civilian. that i regret. i think that s disgusting and i think that was never the message. reporter: though law enforcement are encouraged by this transformation and the demise of the revolution muslim website, they are cautious about khattab. the american-born jew turned radical muslim was a rock star in the world of militant islam. just last year, khattab himself