radical circles with the islamic thinkers society. i mean i like what they did you know, and i joined them you know on a lot of occasions. spreading the word. you know try goethe truth out. and kaiyum is about to play a very significant role in setting bryant neal vinas on his path to al qaeda. zarrini, khattab, kaiyum, all belong to the islamic thinkers society. bryant begins to emulate his new friends, dress like them, flowing arabic-style robes. but his friends at moderate selden mosque worry, he is falling under the influence of these radical friends, and that
with his family so he was with his caretaker you know all day long. they were like really good friends. the caretaker was reluctant to speak to us on camera. but told us their close relationship began to sour when bryant began spending more and more time with this man these people are liars? zarrini a young man turned down by members of the mosque when he offered to run classes for the children. i have that feeling that he might not follow a guideline over books. ahmed zarrini was not moderate muslim. our investigations have shown that he was a leading figure in a radical islamist group. islamic thinkers society. counterterrorism officials say they ve come to the same conclusion. disgust and disappointment. zarrini is front and center
behind those windows could be the secret to bryant s radicalization. i don t see ahmed, but i do meet his father. thank you. have a good day. you too. thank you. good luck. mr. zarrini tells me, ahmed is not home. he s out of the country. but we get a tip that ahmed is not abroad. so we wait and within a few hours, a car goes by. that s him. that s him! in it, ahmed and his father. later that day, i return to the house. well, ahmed zarrini s father just admitted to me that he lied to me earlier in the day when he told me that ahmed wasn t around. he admits now that his son was in fact inside the house. i am told ahmed refuses to meet me or answer any of my questions. but while i m searching for him, i stumble across someone who will talk. he is ahmed kaiyum, one-time
officials was this man, yousef al khattab. i love osama bin laden. i love him whoa, like i can t begin to tell you. he recently told cnn s drew griffin that he met bryant. how closely did you know bryant neal vinas? i met him one time. one time? that s it. i just knew that he was a good muslim brother and that was it. and you are an enemy of islam. you re an enemy of islam. but law enforcement officials tell us that cat ab met bryant on several occasions. khattab has since left the united states. so we tried to locate ahmed zarrini the islamic thinkers society member, who we ve been told, first introduced bryant to the radical group. khattab has told us that ahmed zarrini was considered an extremist even within the islamic thinkers society. i come here to zarrini s parent s house near the selden mosque in long island. if ahmed is in there, then