to hell with america! the leading light of the group, according to counterterrorism officials, was this man, yousef al kahtab. i love osama bin laden. i love him whoa, like i can t begin to tell you. he recently told cnn s drew griffin that he met bryant. how closely did you know bryant neal vinas? i met him one time. one time? that s it. i just knew that he was a good muslim brother and that was it. and you are an enemy of islam! you are an enemy of islam. but law enforcement officials tell us that kahtab met bryant on several occasions. khattab has since left the united states. so we tried to locate ahmed zarrini, the islamic thinkers society member, who we ve been told first introduced bryant to the radical group. khattab has told us that ahmed zarrini was considered an extremist even within the islamic thinkers society.
i happen to understand united states law and constitution and these things and i exercise my rights. counterterrorism officials say that it is through the islamic thinkers society that bryant begins to develop his ideas about jihad and wanting to fight u.s. troops. in a sense they re almost bug lights for aspiring jihadists, they ve got an anti-western, anti-democratic, anti-u.s., pro-al qaeda message. to hell with america! and the leading light of the group, according to counterterrorism officials, was this man, yousef al kahtab. i love osama bin laden. i love him whoa, like i can t begin to tell you. he recently told cnn s drew griffin that he met bryant. how closely did you know bryant neal vinas? i met him one time. one time? that s it. i just knew that he was a good muslim brother, and that was it. and you are an enemy of islam! you are an enemy of islam. but law enforcement officials tell us that kahtab met bryant on several occasions. khattab has sinc
pro-al qaeda message. to hell with america! the leading light of the group, according to counterterrorism officials, was this man, yousef al kahtab. i love osama bin laden. i love him whoa, like i can t begin to tell you. he recently told cnn s drew griffin that he met bryant. how closely did you know bryant neal vinas? i met him one time. one time? that s it. i just knew that he was a good muslim brother and that was it. and you are an enemy of islam! you are an enemy of islam. but law enforcement officials tell us that kahtab met bryant on several occasions. khattab has since left the united states. so we tried to locate ahmed zarrini, the islamic thinkers society member, who we ve been told first introduced bryant to the radical group.
he is bryant neil venus and he is part of a frightening new trend, homegrown terrorists. radicalization is definitely on the rise in the united states. american citizens radicalizing, eager to kill their countrymen. venus is the terrorist next door. the american al qaeda. it s clear now the number of americans who have become radicalized and are willing to kill for al qaeda or some other terrorist group is on the rise. just this month right here in times square, a man by the name of faisal shahzad attempted to detonate a car bomb. he was born this pakistan, but this is a story about an american-born citizen, a man by the name of bryant neil venus. he grew up in suburbia, loved baseball, but he became a terrorist and worked with al qaeda to try to explode a bomb in new york. he s interviewed close friends of his, tracked down other extremists in the united states who influenced venus. this a.c. 360 special investigation is an intimate and chilling portrait of a homeg