CINCINNATI (AP) — A 20-year-old Ohio man’s Twitter posts sympathizing with Islamic terrorists led to an undercover FBI operation and the man’s arrest on charges that he plotted to blow up the U.S. Capitol and kill government officials.
Christopher Lee Cornell, also known as Raheel Mahrus Ubaydah, told an FBI informant they should “wage jihad,” and showed his plans for bombing the Capitol and shooting people, according to a criminal complaint filed in federal court in Ohio Wednesday. The FBI said Cornell expressed his support for the Islamic State.
Cornell’s arrest came only days after a grand jury indictment charged another Cincinnati-area resident with threatening to murder House Speaker John Boehner.
Boehner spokesman Michael Steel said in a statement Wednesday: “Once again, the entire Congress owes a debt of gratitude to the FBI and all those who keep us safe.”
The complaint against Cornell charges him with attempting to kill officers and employees of the United States.
Cornell was arrested Wednesday after buying two semi-automatic rifles and about 600 rounds of ammunition, authorities said.
A phone message and an email were left Wednesday for attorney Karen Savir, a federal public defender listed in court records as Cornell’s attorney. A working phone number could not be found for Cornell’s family.
The complaint alleges that an FBI informant began supplying agents with information about Cornell last year. The informant and Cornell, who lives in Green Township, first began communicating through Twitter in August 2014 and then through an instant messaging platform separate from Twitter, according to the complaint.
“I believe we should meet up and make our own group in alliance with the Islamic State here and plan operations ourselves,” Cornell wrote in an instant message, according to the court document.
NOTE: Does anyone really believe this man wrote this? In fact, this is precisely the writing and agenda of the arch-Zionist DHS. It continues:
The two met in October in Cincinnati and again in November, the complaint states. Cornell told the informant at the November meeting that he considered the members of Congress as enemies and that he intended to conduct an attack on the Capitol, according to the complaint. The document says Cornell discussed his plan for them to travel to Washington and conduct reconnaissance of the security of government buildings including the Capitol before executing “a plan of attack.”
Cornell planned for the two to detonate pipe bombs at and near the Capitol and then shoot and kill employees and officials, and Cornell had saved money to fund the attack, according to the complaint.
He wrote in an August message to the informant: “I believe that we should just wage jihad under our own orders and plan attacks and everything… I believe we should meet up and make our own group in alliance with the Islamic State here and plan operations ourselves.”
The FBI and Department of Homeland Security wrote in a statement Wednesday: “The alleged activities of Cornell highlight the continued interest of US-based violent extremists to support designated foreign terrorist organizations overseas, such as ISIL, by committing terrorist acts in the United States … Terrorist group members and supporters will almost certainly continue to use social media platforms to disseminate English language violent, extremist messages.”
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“We never talked too much about his faith until, like, the last couple of weeks he finally started opening up,” he said.
The father told WKRC Cornell had a seasonal job but not a lot of money, and that he didn’t know where his son got the funds to purchase firearms and ammunition. Cornell had no previous experience with guns, according to his father, who alleged his son was “definitely set up.”
“I know how they operate,” John Cornell said. “I don’t care if people like what I have to say. I know how they operate. They will set you up.”
CBS News spoke with Lynessa Gilpin, a former classmate who went to Oak Hills High School in Cincinnati with Cornell and his older brother, John Cornell II. Gilpin and John were in the same class, a year ahead of Christopher.
“Chris was always an odd individual that I personally stayed away from,” said Gilpin, who described him as “a weird kid in school.”
“Chris seemed to be the normal one, more so than his brother,” Gilpin told CBS News. “John was always a little off. Both were very quiet. No one really was friendly with them or invited them to hang out. They were kind of loners.”
Gilpin said she was “not surprised that he’s involved in this, frankly. Everyone we went to high school with are (sic) commenting and we are shocked that this happened, but not that it was him.”
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