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
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