month-long investigation. authorities were notified in 2017 when he allegedly made statements supporting al qaeda and advocating violence against our military, pitts wrote facebook post with disturbing messages including we as muslims need to start training like this every day. we need to know how to shoot guns, throw grenades, hand-to-hand combat. have a bomb blowup in the fourth of july parade and as for his hatred of the military he said he wanted to, quote, chop off heads and hands. >> law enforcement cannot sit back and wait for mr. pitts to commit a violent act, the joint terrorism task force, working every day to deter and prevent terrorist attacks. >> reporter: pitts talked about traveling to philadelphia and planning undetectable or to 1995 oklahoma city bombing. cities throughout the country