United States. Arrest of a former soldier for planning a large-scale terrorist attack in Los Angeles.

Mark Steven Domingo, 26, former army infantryman who fought in Afghanistan and professed the Muslim religion, was arrested on Friday and faces federal charges for a plan to detonate "an improvised explosive device to cause mbadive casualties".

"This survey managed to dismantle a very real threat posed by a skilled combat soldier, who repeatedly stated that he wanted to make the maximum of casualties "said federal prosecutor Nick Hanna.

Domingo will be presented to the court on Monday. In the imputation, He is accused of "planning and taking steps to create and use a weapon of mbad destruction to commit mbad murder," according to the prosecution.

Domingo reportedly expressed on the Internet and at the FBI sources his support for "jihadist violence, his desire to seek retaliation for attacks against Muslims and to become a martyr".

The plan was to explode the artifact at a demonstration of white supremacists convened this Sunday in Long Beach. The event did not take place.

"The United States needs another Las Vegas," he wrote on the internet about mbad shooting from October 2017, according to prosecutors, who "gives them a taste of of the terror that they spread with joy in the world ".

After the attack of a mosque in New Zealand on March 13, Domingo wrote: "There must be revenge."