[DoughtyOne]

First question: What U.S. Citizen goes to Yemen, unless they’ve already been radicalized, and are seeking terrorist training?

I realize former Yemeni nationals would. Certain business people would too. But as a convert to Islam in the U.S. with no family or business ties to Yemen, it doesn’t make any sense at all to go to Yemen, unless...

[johniegrad]

Of course. The reasons he went there in the first place were altruistic.

[Steel Wolf]

First question: What U.S. Citizen goes to Yemen, unless they’ve already been radicalized, and are seeking terrorist training?

You're exactly right. The FBI can't just magically spring you from a foreign jail. You commit a crime in an extremist country like Yemen, you're going to be f@%@$#$g savagely treated in a barbaric prison.

So, he blamed the FBI for leaving him in prison? Why was he in prison? Why was he in Yemen? None of those things had anything to do with the FBI. This is the flimsiest of defenses. He was in Yemen for a reason, and it wasn't sightseeing. He started the path of jihad himself, and followed it to it's natural conclusion.