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The FBI arrested a man Wednesday, suspected of planning to bomb the U.S. Capitol, following an undercover investigation that began in 2014.<\/h1>\nThe FBI arrested a man Wednesday, suspected of planning to bomb the U.S. Capitol, following an undercover investigation that began in 2014.<\/h1>\nChristopher Cornell, 20, of Green Township, Ohio, posted to Twitter as Raheel Mahrus Ubaydah, and \u201cvoiced his support for violent jihad,\u201d and for ISIL, the FBI said in a criminal complaint.<\/p>\n
An undercover informant made contact with Cornell through Twitter in August 2014.<\/p>\n
During their conversations, Cornell said that he wanted to wage violent jihad, and that doing so \u201cwould be their way of supporting ISIL.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI believe we should meet up and make our own group in alliance with the Islamic State here and plan operations ourselves,\u201d Cornell allegedly said in a message he sent to the informant, according to the FBI.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe already got a thumbs up from the Brothers over there and Anwar al Awlaki before his martyrdom and many others,\u201d he allegedly said.<\/p>\n
Awlaki, an American citizen, was killed in a U.S. drone strike in 2011. U.S. authorities allege that he was an operational leader for al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.<\/p>\n
Cornell first met with the informant during a meeting in Cincinnati on Oct. 17-18, 2014. At that meeting, the FBI said he told the informant that he wanted to “move” in December, but did not reveal details of his plot.<\/p>\n
During a second meeting on Nov. 10-11, the FBI said he laid out details of his plans to build, plant and detonate pipe bombs at and near the U.S. Capitol building before beginning a shooting spree with the informant during the unfolding chaos. He told the informant that he considered members of Congress “enemies,” according to the FBI.<\/p>\n
Cornell was arrested after he purchased two semi-automatic rifles in his native Ohio, according to court documents.<\/p>\n
The bureau said he was never a threat to the public.<\/p>\nError, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 9)<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The FBI arrested a man Wednesday, suspected of planning to bomb the U.S. Capitol, following an undercover investigation that began in 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,80,63,14],"tags":[10340,75844,9694],"class_list":["post-56468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-america","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-world","tag-fbi","tag-isil","tag-ohio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}