syria allegedly and also searches for the flames of war video. you may remember that 55-minute isis propaganda video from several onts ago and also the criminal complaint alleges he downloaded in december on isis video showing isis members executing prisoners by lining them up and shooting them in the head according to the complaint. we re learning more and more about this individual tairod nathan webster pugh. peter bergen you ve been studying terrorism for a long time. what do you make of this development? a u.s. air force veteran, an aviation mechanic now arrested supposedly trying to hook up with isis. i think there are two things that are a little bit different about this case. first of all, he s a veteran. we have seen one case of another veteran hooking up with sort of a jihadist group but it wasn t isis. and the other thing that s new about this is i think typically when people try and join isis from the united states they re arrested at the airport in the united states. th
and turned back. so he got a lot further than most people do. but to put this in perspective, we ve seen according to recent u.s. government figures, 180 americans who have gone to syria or tried to get there. not all of them are going to join isis. some try and join al qaeda. others join other groups. but every day we seem to have a new story that underlies this phenomenon that s really a trend, wolf, that isn t going away anytime soon. and clearly this case peter, it looks like the turks, a nato ally they discover this guy, send him back to egypt. the egyptians then deported him back to the united states where he was immediately arrested. so it looks like there was some good coordination there between the u.s. turkey and egypt, right? yeah. as you know there s been great unhappiness about the turks for a long time amongst a number of western countries who say they haven t been doing enough. but we ve been reporting last week they arrested a facilitator who was helping those briti
girls get across the border into syria and they seem to be taking a much more aggressive stance in the last say, two or three months on this issue. u.s. air force veteran arrested now. we re getting more details. we ll have a lot more on that. peter and pamela thanks very much. still ahead, the historic nuclear negotiations under way right now between the u.s. and iran. if an agreement is brokered what would that mean? much more on this, the latest developments when we come back. you re driving along, having a perfectly nice day, when out of nowhere a pick-up truck slams into your brand new car.
i know a lot of other questions have to be answered and we ll work on that. thanks very much. i want to go to cnn s justice correspondent pamela brown. getting breaking news. what are we learning? a former member of the u.s. air force was stopped in turkey and may, repeat may have been trying to join up with isis. what are you learning? reporter: that s right. according to this recently unsealed criminal complaint wolf, this man who was a u.s. citizen and former member of the united states air force was allegedly trying to travel to syria through turkey to link up with isis and then as this complaint says fight violent jihad. in reading through this complaint, what happened was apparently he allegedly flew from egypt into turkey. turkish authorities stopped him there, sent him back to egypt. he was then deported to the united states and then arrested here in the u.s. he was in the air force. and while he was there, he received training in the installation and maintenance of
member of the united states air force was stopped in turkey it s believed according to accusations, he was trying to join isis. our justice correspondent pamela brown is with us. also our national security analyst peter bergen is joining us on the phone. pamela first, you ve gone through the actual document, the complaint. what do we know about what s going on? here s what we re learning. this u.s. air force veteran allegedly tried to fly through turkey and then travel into syria to link up with isis and fight violent jihad, according to this complaint. and the suspect s name is tairod nathan webster pugh from neptune, new jersey. and what officials are saying is that he lived overseas for a period of time. he lived in egypt and kuwait and was an aviation mechanic. he worked on airplane engines and he worked for several private companies in the u.s. and overseas as well. he allegedly in january traveled from egypt to turkey where authorities stopped him before he could go any further