I don’t know if it’s good or bad—but it sure seems weird.......Apparently, this young man has a clean record.
“Yasir.” If they were tracking him, they had good reason.
There is no reason to believe that this guy has a clean record. Most Jihadis have squeaky clean records all the way up until they do something horrible. The fact that his dad was a “respected member of the Muslim community” holds no water with me either. I know of at least two instances in which Jihadis were found to be sons of local Imams at the community mosques here in the USA, including a case in south Alabama of an American citizen who is now fighting for Al Qaeda in Somalia.
I’m wondering how he found out about it? Given a tip?