increasingly out of step with the moderate selden mosque. he needs somewhere else to pray. he comes up this long dirt road to a small nondescript house. a new mosque. the man who was then deputy head of the fbi s national security branch tells me that he sees this pattern all too often. people peeling off in smaller groups because either they don t feel comfortable in one environment or people actively in that environment say, you re not welcome here. that s a pretty common phenomenon. are they more at risk once they ve peeled off? yes. i think they re clearly more at risk because you re going to get a close circle of individuals, where other ideas can t penetrate. we stand up for the truth! some in bryant s group tell me that bryant came to believe that the united states was at war with islam. he became so convinced of this that he took up bolinin laden s command to stop paying united
he is bryant neil venus and he is part of a frightening new trend, homegrown terrorists. radicalization is definitely on the rise in the united states. american citizens radicalizing, eager to kill their countrymen. venus is the terrorist next door. the american al qaeda. it s clear now the number of americans who have become radicalized and are willing to kill for al qaeda or some other terrorist group is on the rise. just this month right here in times square, a man by the name of faisal shahzad attempted to detonate a car bomb. he was born this pakistan, but this is a story about an american-born citizen, a man by the name of bryant neil venus. he grew up in suburbia, loved baseball, but he became a terrorist and worked with al qaeda to try to explode a bomb in new york. he s interviewed close friends of his, tracked down other extremists in the united states who influenced venus. this a.c. 360 special investigation is an intimate and chilling portrait of a homeg