An Ohio man who allegedly took the train to train with ISIS is stopped at the airport

An Ohio man was arrested at an airport. He would be accused of planning to travel with terrorists in the so-called Islamic State group, also called ISIS.

The local WBNS-TV channel reported Thursday to the Justice Ministry that Naser Almadaoji, a 19-year-old US citizen born in Iraq, had been arrested the previous day at John Glenn International Airport in Columbus, Ohio. . Almadaoji was accused of planning to cross Kazakhstan to Afghanistan, where he intended to train with a terrorist group.

"He was planning to smuggle into Afghanistan to join ISIS Khorasan, Isis's Afghanistan-based affiliate," Glass World, US District Attorney for South Ohio District, told WHIO on Thursday. "He intended to get training to use on behalf of ISIS."

Almadaoji was reportedly accused of attempting to provide material support to the terrorist group.

According to the authorities, Almadaoji allegedly contacted a confidential FBI source who pretended to be a supporter of the Islamic State and, in their conversations, pledged his allegiance to the terrorist group and expressed the wish to see the group. inflict damage to the United States.

A mural shows the emblem of the Islamic State group on October 5, 2017. An Ohio man was arrested at an airport, accused of planning a train trip with the group also known as the D-Day. ; ISIS. Ahmad Al-Rubaye / AFP / Getty Images

"Almadaoji recorded a video of himself, asserting his allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who is the head of the Islamic State, and then forwarded it to a person that he thought was member of the Islamic State, "said Glassman, via WHIO. "Mr. Almadaoji had a lot of ideas about how he wanted to bring down the United States as a long-term plan."

The court documents showed Mr. Almadaoji that, according to the Daily Beast, he wanted to learn from ISIL. He expressed his interest in "training of weapons experts, planning, execution, hitting and running, the capture of high-value targets, ways to enter homes and avoid guards. This type of training. "

Authorities said that a number of arrests related to terrorism-related charges had occurred recently.

"This is the third person arrested by the FBI for terrorism for at least a week, and as these arrests prove – two in Ohio and one in Illinois – the threat posed by terrorism remains extremely serious," he said. said Michael McGarrity, deputy director of the FBI's antiterrorist division, according to WCMH.