Mohamed Mahmood Alessa, the 20-year-old man who was allegedly planning to attack American troops in Somalia was radicalised in his early teens and was kicked out of his high school in New Jersey, a media report said.

On Saturday, Alessa along with his co-conspirator, Carlos Eduardo Almonte, were arrested at John F Kennedy airport trying to make their way to Egypt and have been charged with conspiring to kill, kidnap or maim persons outside the United States.

If convicted, they could be in prison for life.

The criminal complaint states that the two American citizens prepared for their mission by working out in the gym, doing test runs at paintball fields, saving thousands of dollars, buying cargo pants, listening to videos especially the ones by radical American-Yemeni cleric Anwar Al Awalaki, and reading documents authored by Osama bin Laden and Ayman Al-Zawahiri.

“A lot of people need to get killed bro, swear to God assault rival and just kill anyone that even looks at me the wrong way bro,” said Almonte to Alessa and a New York City undercover cop who recorded the conversation in November 2009.

“Nah, I swear to God bro. I wanna like. I m not. my soul cannot rest until I shed blood, I wanna like, be the world’s known terrorist.I swear to God,” he added.

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