An Ohio man has been charged with plotting a terror attack in the United States.
Abdirahman Sheikh Mohamud, 23, was charged by a federal grand jury with attempting to provide and providing material support to terrorists, attempting to provide and providing material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization and making false statements to the FBI.
The indictment, filed Thursday in the Southern District of Ohio, notes that Mohamud actually went to Syria and returned to the U.S. to carry out the attacks.
A naturalized U.S. citizen, Mohamud left the U.S. in April 2014 on a one-way flight to Greece. During his layover in Istanbul, he left the airport and went through with pre-arranged plans to travel to Syria.
Once in Syria, he received training from Jabhat al-Nusra in shooting weapons, breaking into houses, explosives and hand-to-hand combat. The indictment states he was instructed by a cleric in the terror group to return to the U.S. to commit an act of terrorism.
His brother Abdifatah Aden also was part of the al-Nusrah Front and was killed in battle on or around June 3, 2014, according to court documents.
Mohamud was arrested and detained on state charges on Feb. 21 and is set to be transferred into federal custody.
(h/t CBS News)
