An Ohio man who claimed solidarity with the Islamic State terror group was arrested Wednesday after plotting to bomb the U.S. Capitol and shoot federal government officials as they fled, prosecutors announced in Washington and Ohio. The man, identified as 20-year-old Christopher Lee Cornell of Green Township near Cincinnati, was charged in a criminal complaint and arrested by federal anti-terror agents and Ohio police. The complaint was filed in federal court, where Cornell had not yet entered a plea in the case. In court documents, FBI special agent T.A. Staderman said that Cornell came to the attention of authorities after he began posting statements online in support of Islamic State last summer under the alias, Raheel Mahrus Ubaydah. “I believe that we should just wage jihad under our own orders and plan attacks and everything,” he allegedly said in one posting. Read more http://www.latimes.com/nation/natio...n-in-plot-to-bomb-capitol-20150114-story.html
