his -- it was really his desire and eagerness to get into the fight overseas. >> according to what bryant later tells investigators, he is soon asked to become a suicide bomber, and he accepts. >> he may have viewed it as potentially some type of test to vet him as to whether he was really serious about this. >> you're going to go through multiple paths, multiple doors, if you will, before someone says okay, we think -- we kind of sort of maybe trust this person. >> but when taliban militants here in pakistan don't provide bryant with the training in action he wants, his impatience gets the better of him, and he begins a series of unsuccessful attempts to join osama bin laden's followers. >> one time he disguises himself as a woman dresses in a burqa to hide his hispanic american identity, and sets off alone to find an al qaeda camp. he fails, but he won't give up and nearly loses his life