Threatening to carry out attacks over there and in the u. S. , and that wasnt the whole plan. Two suspects threatened to plant a bomb on new yorks coney eye and and to kill president obama and wait until you hear in a few moments how authorities uncovered their plot. But this morning Law Enforcement across the country on high alert for other violent extremists we have this story covered from every angle, beginning with will ripley in brooklyn, new york. Weve been working to learn more about the two younger suspects arrested here in brooklyn including a 19yearold who lived in this building behind me. He paid just 571 to get a ticket to try to fly over try to join isis a plot that was only foiled by the federal authorities because of the fact that these two young men were so careless. The initial actions were effectively to go to syria. This morning two men intent on waging war with isis according to the february are in custody in new york. A third accomplice arrested in florida. At least one of the alleged aspiring terrorists lived in this Brooklyn New York apartment complex. The buildings superintendant said they didnt seem suspicious. Federal prosecutors say 24yearold and his 19yearold friend planned to fly from new york to turkey and cross into syria to join isis. The teams Attorney Says the fbi is rushing to prosecute. This is all information that is delivered to the fbi from a confidential informant that the government says in their own complaint they cant rely on the credibility of. The third brooklyn man, a 30yearold business own frer uzbekistan allegedly funded some of the efforts. The men had a secondary plan if they were unable to reach syria. If they were unable to go they would seek to acquire weapons here and guns and machine guns and seek to attack very specifically police officers. According to documents, jeraboyev tried to make contact with the terror group in a chat room online. Saying to shoot obama and get shot ourselves, will it do . That will strike fear in the hearts of infidels. That brought fbi agents to his front door. Where the suspect admitted woe harm president barack obama, but did not have the means to do so and said if isis ordered him to he would plant a bomb on coney island new york city. Isis online propaganda a growing threat to the u. S. The state Department Says theyre combatting around 90,000 tweets a day. This as the fbi says there are investigations into homegrown violent extremists in all 50 states. This morning, the u. S. Government believes at least 150 americans have left this country to join isis. They believe they stopped three others from doing the same thing. But again we do need to point out the attorney for the 19yearold suspect says these are just allegations and an indictment for the three men has yet to be filed. Thats not unusual. The indictments can grow over time. Well see how they build this case thank you for the reporting. Let us know what else you find out about this. What we just learned about the true identity of jihadi john and that that was known and that authorities were in contact with this young londoner when he was still there, when he was getting his degree in computer science, yet they couldnt stop him from going to syria. Show house difficult it is even with the clumsiness we just saw with these guys in brooklyn. Lets bring in evan perez to discuss this investigation, because it speaks to what were dealing with with jihadi john evan and how difficult it is these cases are to make. Lets start with the lynchpin of the arrest of the terror investor what is that . This represents a big change in what weve seen in these types of cases, according to this current complaint by the fbi, we have a real network here. We have an investor essentially whos financing these, what basically the two men, who are going to go fight in syria. If they cant do that theyre planning to attack here in this country. The backup plans they had, which is to perhaps assassinate the president or kill fbi agents was more aspirational. This is something the fbi has seen before and they expect that you know its not very difficult to go from aspirational to actually carrying this thing out. One of these guys as he was boarding the plane, ended up not being prepared for his flight. Because he didnt actually have a visa to get into turkey. It shows you that this plan was not very well thought out. But thank goodness the fbi was watching these guys and was able to move quickly. Back to you. It shows that even when theyre watching people that doesnt mean necessarily they can make a case whenever they want and thats how you see a guy like who theyre now identifying as Mohammed Emwazi jihadi john from being surveilled in the uk to being the face of isis. We want to bring in tom fuentes, our cnn lawn Enforcement Analyst and daveed gartensteinross senior fellow for the defense of democracies, thanks for being here. Tom, lent me start with you. Lets talk about what we know now about jihadi john. This seems as though its a big investigative coup, that investigators have figured out hes Mohammed Emwazi growing up in west london. How would they have gone about piecing together his identity . I think they were able to find people in london that knew him. Knew of his travel there. And his intention to join isis and eventually revealed that to the authorities. Daveed here are some things we know. The bbc and the Washington Post are reporting his real identity theyve done the Background Research into what exactly he is. He is a brit, he is allegedly from a welltodo family. He grew up in west london he graduated from college, he graduated with a degree if computer programming. Does this fit the mold of what we think about isis fighters . Or does it break the mold . Theres various molds. I wouldnt say that you have a single demographic. And you know the information thats coming out about these guys has been only a fraction of the whole. If you look at the foreign fighters who have gone over theres over 20,000 foreign fighters about 4,000 of them are from western countries, 16,000 are from the arab world. And the amount of biographical information we have is just a fraction of that. In terms of previous jihadi profiles this does fit the mold. Terrorist groups tend to be comprised of people who are of higher socioeconomic status than the norm. The ira was an exception, they were composed of people of lower socioeconomic status. But in general terrorism rather than insurgency tends to be a profession of the elites. Tom, until this moment he had been called jihadi john. Because no one knew his identity. The first time that he came to be seen in the public view was during james foleys execution and beheading. Since then this same man with the same build with the same accent was seen in other gruesome beheading videos how significant is it that authorities now know his identity . Well significant in terms of being able to identify other people that may be you know his friends or classmates other individuals that know him and may be inspired by him to go over and do the same thing. I think that thats probably how they caught up with him and identified him is through his network of friends back in london. And people that he may have stayed in communication with or thought he was being clever enough as a Computer Programmer to be able to to have discreet communications with. That eventually gave him up. I think its very important to identify who else might be involved with him. Daveed this is breaking news so im just reading some of these details along with you at this moment. So he was not born in london he was perhaps raised there and lived in west london. However, hes kuwaiti born. Niece his mid 20s. He appears to have left little trail of social media online. Those who knew him say he was polite. He had penchant for wearing stylish clothes. He had a beard and was mindful of making eye contact with women. What does all that tell you, daveed . Theres a few different things. The lack of a social media trail indicates that he may have radicalized quite a bit earlier. Oftentimes when someone is radicalizing fairly close to the time of trying to go over to syria or carry out a terrorist attack they have a social media trail where you can see development of their thoughts thats been one of the very interesting things about recent terrorist cases. Ten years ago, say, when i was studying these issues it was really the exception when someone would have a trail like that sometimes they would have a blog. But now almost everyone has a social media trail. A second thing thats interesting about that look theres a debate thats been reopened by graham woods article in the atlantic about do isis guys really believe in the religious ideas. Theres some indications that religiousness was important to him. But think well learn more as information trickles out. This is breaking now and were starting to get just the first details. I think well have a more comprehensive boig comprehensive biographical sketch by tomorrow. Courtesy of the Washington Post thats done this reporting, they spoke to friends of his. The friends, who spoke on condition of anonymity believe that emwazi started to radicalize after a planned safari in tanzania and following his graduation from the university of westminster. Tanzania thats not a place we think of as a hotbed is it . Absolutely. Al qaeda has been up and down africa for more than a decade. We had the u. S. Embassy bombings in august of 1998 and the fbi sent several hundred agents to east africa. That investigation went from somalia down to south africa. So so the u. S. Embassy being one of the places bombed in tanzania. Lets switch to the other breaking news that the three suspects were arrested in brooklyn. As they were trying to join isis. These guys are also fascinating, kazakhstan uzbekistan living and working in brooklyn . Tell us more that youve learned about this investigation here at home. Theres a few things that are interesting about it. I mean the most interesting is you generally dont have the interactions that occurred in this case with the fbi. I mean as the report prior to this interview said they went to one of the defendants in this case and asked him about a social media postings. If he admitted to them that he wanted to kill the president , he admitted he was a supporter of isis. He was basically caught redhanded. Generally people make up some sort of excuse. Its interesting that he admitted that. Its interesting they were able to get a confidential informant into the group after he admitted to the fbi he wanted to kill the president and was an isis supporter. This indicates some poor Operational Security on their part and the fact they were so eager to get in with isis and spread isis ideas, that they trusted someone who was unfamiliar and ultimately helped to provide the fbi some information that gave them authority for example to undertake wiretaps and other such things. It is fascinating to read this 23page complaint from the fbi on these guys. Daveed gartensteinross tom fuentes, thanks so much for helping us walk through all of this. Well have more on this breaking news throughout the program. Lets go over to michaela. This morning were learning that the number of syrian christians being held hostage by isis has nearly tripled. There are growing concerns about their fate. Senior International Correspondent ben wedeman is live in erbil, iraq with the latest on what we know. Michaela if you thought the story was bad, its just gotten a lot worse. Day before yesterday, our initial reporting was that between 70100 people in northeastern syria, a syrian christians mostly women, children and the elderly, had been abducted by isis. Now we hear from edward osama edward founder of the syrian human rights network, who is in sweden but has relatives and is in touch with people in the area. He says that that number is 262 people abducted and currently in the hands of isis. Now we dont know their fate. There were reports that some of them had been sent to raqqa, which is in North Central syria. Essentially the capital of the Islamic State. And of course as we know in the past oftentimes these people especially the women end up being sold as sex slaves to isis fighters. In addition to that we are hearing that thousands, not the original 700 asyrian christian families have fled villages approximately 11 of them according to osama edward have been attacked 11 villages have been attacked by isis as well. That situation getting increasingly grim as we look for more information. Meanwhile, there is somewhat brighter story here in iraq to the south, the town of ball gami right next to the Assad Air Base the biggest base in Anbar Province where several hundred american servicemen and contractors are working to support the iraqi army the iraqi army reporting they were able to retake at least 70 of the city. Michaela . Ill take it ben, thank you very much. We have new terror arrests obviously here and they make clear how fragile these cases are. That means you dont want to destabilize the efforts which means the game something played with Homeland Security funding right now are that much more dangerous. Lets bring in cnn senior White House Correspondent jim acosta with more. Whats the lay of the land . We know its snowing, but is it thawing behind you with the gop leadership and the democrats . The forecast is unclear, chris. But that case in new york and the other lone wolf cases are exactly what the white house is worried about. The alleged lone wolves who travel from the United States and the west down to syria to try to join isis get training and come back to the homeland to potentially wreak havoc, thats why white house Officials Say this is no time for the department of Homeland Security to run out of funding. A message that the president delivered last night in miami. What we said to republicans is instead of trying to hold hostage funding for the department of Homeland Security which is so important for our national security. Fund that and lets get on with actually passing comprehensive Immigration Reform. Now, as for the state of play up on capitol hill the senate should technically be able to get to this Homeland Security bill later today. Have a bill that only funds the agency. And puts aside Everything Else and then that potentially could go to the house. Nobody is making any guarantees on capitol hill because of the uncertainty in the house, we have less than 48 hours to go. The president will be doing a round of local Television Interviews one more chance to hammer home the message. Guys back to you. Also breaking overnight the taliban claiming responsibility for a deadly attack outside the Iranian Embassy in kabul, afghanistan. Police say the target was actually a Turkish Military convoy the Turkish Embassy is adjacent to the iranian one. At least two people were killed. Iranian officials condemned the attack and say no members of their diplomatic staff were injured. Recreational marijuana use is now legal in our nations capital. Adults 21 and over in washington, d. C. Can smoke pot, possess up to two ounces and grow up to six plants in their homes for personal use. The law took effect at midnight. The sale of marijuana, meanwhile, is still illegal in washington, but the District Council is considering a measure to regulate and tax pot sales much like they do in colorado. Did the movie, american sniper, influence the murder trial of chris kyle and chad littlefield, no says an attorney for the man convicted of murdering the two men. He says the case wasnt impacted by the fact that some jurors saw the film and most jurors can do their job and make up their minds based on evidence. He and the rest of Eddie Ray RouthsTeam Defense Team did not see the movie as a reason to dismiss any jurors. Routh was quickly convicted and sentenced to life in prison. In our next hour were going to speak to Jeff Kyle Chris kyles brother, his first interview since the guilty verdict. Hell tell us what the family is thinking and what theyll do next. 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