US Veteran Tairod Nathan Webster try to join Islamic States to kill american

Tairod Nathan Webster Pugh

Joining Islamic States to kill American people

A US Air Force veteran has been charged with attempting to provide material support to Islamic State militants.

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Tairod Nathan Webster Pugh, 47, of Neptune, New Jersey, allegedly tried to travel to Syria to join the militant group.

Prosecutors say that he had been living and working in the Middle East for more than a year before his arrest.

Court documents allege he travelled to Turkey in an effort to cross into Syria but was denied entry at the airport.

The charges were announced on Tuesday by US Attorney for the Eastern District of New York Loretta Lynch.

Mr Pugh is an American citizen who was born and raised in the US, prosecutors say.

According to a statement from the US Attorney's Office, Mr Pugh served as an avionics specialist and mechanic in the US Air Force.

After he left the military, he did similar work for several companies in the United States and the Middle East.

Tairod Pugh timeline

Around 1986-1990: Served in the US Air Force as an avionics specialist and mechanic

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Around 1998: Moved to San Antonio, Texas, converted to Islam, and "became increasingly radical in his beliefs"

Around 2001: Worked as a mechanic for American Airlines, at which time the FBI received a tip from a co-worker that Mr Pugh sympathised with Osama bin Laden and believed that the bombings of US embassies in 1998 were justified

2002: The FBI interviewed an associate who said that Mr Pugh was interested in travelling to Chechnya to fight jihad

October 2009-March 2010: Worked on avionics as a contractor for DynCorp in Iraq

10 January 2015: Turkish authorities stopped Mr Pugh at Ataturk Airport in Istanbul for questioning. He claimed to be a pilot for the US Special Forces, and said he was visiting Turkey for a holiday. Turkish authorities sent him back to Egypt, where he had been living for a year

10 January 2015: Mr Pugh is detained in Egypt, pending deportation to the US. He denied any interest in travelling to Syria, and said he had visited Turkey to look for a job

Source: United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York

In February the FBI arrested one Kazakhstani national and two Uzbek nationals who were living in Brooklyn.

The men were also charged with attempting to provide material support to Islamic State militants.

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