Houston Muslim born in the US arrested for alleged ISIS inspired terror plot

Houston Chronicle:
An 18-year-old Houston man who told a federal informant he wanted to die in "martyrdom" has been charged with supporting ISIS in a plot authorities said also included planning for a firearms attack in the United States.

Kaan Sercan Damlarkaya, a native-born U.S. citizen, is accused in a criminal complaint of unlawfully distributing instructions for making explosives and trying to provide material support to the terrorist organization, according to court documents unsealed Monday in federal court in Houston.

He is the third Houston-area resident arrested for supporting ISIS in recent years. Last week, Asher Abid Khan, 23, of Spring, pleaded guilty to supporting the group. Another man, Omar Faraj Saeed Al Hardan, 25, is scheduled to be sentenced Dec. 18 after pleading guilty last year to an ISIS bomb plot in the Houston area.

Damlarkaya had already tried twice to reach ISIS in Syria, in 2014 and 2015, and had purchased parts to make a homemade AK-47, FBI Special Agent Keith Fogg of the Houston division said in a sworn statement used to obtain an arrest warrant.

Damlarkaya discussed making bombs online and slept with a machete under his pillow, Fogg said.

Damlarkaya had also discussed attacks with Samurai swords or machetes, authorities said, because "not all of us can get a gun or make explosives, but we can afford to buy a $15 knife."
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He apparently was unknowingly discussing his plans with an undercover FBI agent.   It looks like being a terrorist is a seductive line of work for some swayed by radical Islam.

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