it is 5:00 a.m. in the east. developing this morning, a naturalized american citizen back from terrorism training in syria with plans to attack on u.s. soil. this man now in custody. he is charged with providing material support to terrorists and lying to the fbi. evan perez is in washington with the very latest. reporter: john and christine, mohamud is the terrorist threat that the counterterrorism officials warned us about for months. an american who traveled overseas to fight for al qaeda and come back to plot an attack at home. the 23-year-old resident of columbus ohio is providing terrorist support to nusra. he became a u.s. citizen last year. two months later, in april of 2014 he flew on one way ticket to greece with plans to make his way to turkey and then to syria. justice department prosecutors say he got training in guns and
now. we ll go back to bob corker in a moment. first there is this. at least 10 people are dead after a terrorist attack that happened in somalia. authorities say al-shabaab gunmen storm ad building in mogadishu, ramming a car loaded with explosives through the front gate. seven attackers were killed. this comes two weeks after gunmen claiming to be from al-shabaab, attack ad college campus in kenya. a brutal massacre. 140 people were dead in the attack. most of them were killed for being christian. bill: fox news alert. growing concerns isis made headway in libya. counterterrorism officials say they are seizing terror camps. isis has control of several private airstrips. that isis could attack from the sky. chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge live in washington. what are we learning about all that today, catherine?
organization. unbelievable. and we know counterterrorism officials, after talking to you, i had buck sexton on saying sloppy about those women yesterday. this is how you re on fbi s radar. i think a lot of people from the outside are saying some of these people aren t very smart. you know they re communicating online they re tweeting things out, doing things seemingly that you would think someone would not wanting to do. right. but then you also have to think about something else. in order to carry off some sort of an attack you don t have to be brilliant. so it doesn t take much. so i think what you re seeing is federal authorities moving in on some of these people in the early stages before it gets to something more serious. jason carroll, thank you very much. you bet. now to this. new information here in the downing of germanwings flight 9525 and what may just be really the final piece of the puzzle and what investigators are now calling a case of premeditated
look at the border between libya and tunisia it s porous people cross it lot of weapons in libya. there is a civil war going on there now. you know how do you seal a border like that in the desert? virtually impossible. but i don t really think the islamic state is controlling these attacks. the united states has the ability to close down their communications monitor them. i think the islamic state is simply claiming victories it s not really in control of so i m not that worried about that. but i m worried about just general chaos because people facing chaos like this the default position is radical islam and that s what should concern us. when do you suppose counterterrorism officials can learn from say the most recent attack that took place there in tunisia in terms of how to anticipate the next plan? if i were a westerner i wouldn t set foot in the middle east anywhere beirut tunisia, iraq libya the obvious places.
back to his homeland of kuwait but reportedly was prevented from doing so by authorities. according to the bbc, he came to the attention of counterterrorism officials in britain, as thought to be involved with extremists over in africa. while he made he way to syria and joined isis he guarded western hostages. three were dubbed the beatles because of their accents, and according to all reports, they were brutal. quote they were really one of had the hostages. when was the beatles show up there was some physical beating or tower further. they seemed to take pleasure. the abuse included prolonged beatings, mock executions and repeated waterboarding. for more on the i haddentity of this brutal man, i m joined by richard engel. what do we know about mohammed emwazi emwazi. reporter: you outlined his biography.