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Student arrested at Blaine border charged with terrorism

Mar 17, 2014, 12:44 PM | Updated: 1:55 pm

An Army National Guard private and college student from California was pulled off a bus at the Blaine, Wash. border crossing, accused of plotting terrorism.

FBI agents claim Nicholas Teausant, 20, of Acampo, Calif. admitted to a confidential informant starting last October that he wanted to deal a “maximum blow” to America and that he wanted to travel to Syria to train fighters to shoot properly.

Investigators claim that Teausant declared, in secretly recorded meetings with the informant that he would not return to America until after President Obama is dead, Congress is gone, and there is anarchy and chaos.

Investigators say Teausant declared that he was willing to bomb his daughter’s daycare because it was located in a “Zionist reform church” and that he would kill his mother if she was to “jeopardize something that I had going.”

Eventually, Teausant met with an undercover FBI agent and confirmed his plans to travel to Canada and then to Syria, according to a federal complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Sacramento.

The FBI watched Teausant board a train to Seattle Saturday night and then switch to a bus on Sunday bound for Canada. He faces a single terrorism charge “attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization.” He was due in court in Seattle Monday afternoon.

According to investigators with the Modesto/ Stockton Joint Terrorism Task Force, Teausant planned to join a terrorist group linked to al-Qaida.

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