scrabbled hills from pakistan region. bryant neal vinas becomes a folly-fledge member of al qaeda. by now he is already shown the al qaeda recruiters one of his most valuable assets, perseverance. veteran s cia psychologist marc sageman advised the nypd. that trait of persistence would make him potentially very danger if he had decided to do some kind of terrorist plot in the west, because he would not have given up. bryant is given a place to live with jihadists from europe. conditions in the small house are spartan. some of the europeans he meets are being trained for international operations. you have a subset of people whom might undergo different training in very small facilities on things like how to build an explosive device, how to evade foreign security services, how to communicate in a secret manner. soon, al qaeda instructors training bryant on ak-47s, rockets, heavy machine guns, how to build bombs, how to kill u.s. troops across the border in afghanistan. so he
trend, homegrown terrorists. radicalization is definitely on the rise in the united states. american citizens radicalizing eager to kill their countrymen. vinas is the terrorist next door, the american al qaeda. it s clear now the number of americans who have become radicalized and willing to kill for al qaeda or some other terrorist group is on the rise. times square a name by the name of faisal shahzad to detonate a car bomb. but this is a story about an american-born citizen. a name by the name of bryant neal vinas. he interview up in suburbia. he was an altar boy. he loved baseball and he become a terrorist and plotted al qaeda to explode a bomb in new york. cnn s international corporate nic robertson has spent nearly a year to track vinas track of terror. this ac360 special investigation is an intimate and chilling portrait of a homegrown terrorist. al qaeda s target, the busiest commuter railroad in the united states, the long island rail road in new york. hu
because of his persistence. some fighters in the tribal areas still don t trust vinas. they suspect he could be a spy. on one occasion militants he runs into decide to kill him. and they almost do. but he talks them out of it. after a few more months, finally he gets what he wants, al qaeda relents, letting him into their camp into the hard scrabbled hills from pakistan in the border region. bryant neal vinas becomes a fully-flenled member of al qaeda. by now he is already shown the al qaeda recruiters one of his most valuable assets, perseverance. veteran s cia psychologist marc sageman advised the nypd. that trait of persistence would make him potentially very danger if he had decided to do
because of his persistence. some fighters in the tribal areas still don t trust vinas. they suspect he could be a spy. on one occasion militants he runs into decide to kill him. and they almost do. but he talks them out of it. after a few more months, finally he gets what he wants, al qaeda relents, letting him into their camp into the hard scrabbled hills from pakistan region. bryant neal vinas becomes a folly-fledge member of al qaeda. by now he is already shown the al qaeda recruiters one of his most valuable assets, perseverance. veteran s cia psychologist mark sageman advised the nypd. that trait of persistence would make him potentially very