wabc has the report. reporter: a man who claims to be a former roommate said he had no idea how radical pugh was becoming. shock but then when you hear stuff like that, you say to yourself, do you really know people? reporter: 47-year-old tairod pugh was living in egypt and fired from a job as an aviation engineer there. the feds say his plan was to travel from egypt to turkey and cross the border in to syria to join up with isis. pugh converted to islam in 1998 and became increasingly radical. as the years went by. in 2001 co-workers told the fbi he defended the bombings of the embassies in west africa. when he was detained in egypt, his cell phones an computers contained isis videos and images and maps that showed crossing points in to syria. in a letter to his wife, pugh allegedly wrote, i m mujahid. i am a sword against the
the cemetery where victims of the armed islamic group and seen elderly muslim women praying for their slain children, this sort of story that somehow you go off and join jihad, and you re going to be defending muslims is completely exposed. the reality is, you re killing muslims. yes. that s the number one target is muslims who they don t believe are muslim enough, not following the proper path. absolutely. the vast majority of the victims of jihadist groups and jihadist terrorism are people of muslim heritage. but we don t see their faces. we don t talk about those victims, or the heroic iraqi woman lawyer executed by isis in september because of her opposition to their barrity. we need to tell those stories, so that young muslims and people who think they re going to help by joining jihad will find other ways of doing that and know that is absolutely the wrong path. isis has its own etiology cal