20-year-old plotted to blow up Capitol building, FBI claims

A 20-year-old man’s Twitter posts sympathising with Islamic terrorists led to an undercover FBI operation and the man’s arrest on charges that he plotted to blow up the US Capitol and kill government officials.

Christopher Lee Cornell, also known as Raheel Mahrus Ubaydah, told an FBI informant they should “wage jihad”, and showed his plans for bombing the Capitol and shooting people, according to a criminal complaint filed in federal court in Ohio.