BREAKING: 'Truly Horrific' - FBI Makes Bone Chilling Arrest

Hey ladies and gentlemen, this is Carmine Sabia for Explain America with some truly horrific breaking news

Before we get started, please make sure you like, comment, share, and subscribe

Those little things really help us out, and they help our channel continue to grow

The FBI has made an arrest of an 18 year old Iowa man

who apparently was planning a horrific attack on an unimaginable scale against Christian and Catholic churches

Now the details of the scale of the crime are astronomical. We're talking about

going in and you know with whatever weapon he was using to mow down all the people in the church and then burn the churches to the ground

He says he was doing this on behalf of ISIS. Now how he got caught is they were

the FBI was investigating somebody else in a different scheme with the same name

They happened to stumble upon this guy. Now this guy was talking to an FBI agent, but he didn't know that

He thought this guy could help get him into ISIS. So, terrifying situation here. It is just breaking. The story is still developing

We're absolutely gonna have more on it here for you as it develops. In the meantime though

check this detailed report out and let me know what you think in the comments guys. As always

please remember to like, comment, share, and subscribe. It really helps us out

I'm Carmine Sabia for Explained America. We love you guys. God bless you. Take care everybody

Developing this morning, an 18 year old in Idaho could face up to 20 years in prison after allegedly planning an ISIS attack on multiple churches

In messages, the suspect allegedly said he wanted to kill as many as possible using knives, firearms, and fire

CNN's Zach Cohen here with the details Zach. What are you learning? Yeah, John, the FBI is saying that they were able to arrest 18 year old Alexander Mercurio

before he could go on this killing rampage that he was allegedly planning to carry out in the name of ISIS. And look

the FBI is pointing to a series of messages that date back all the way to 2022 when they said they almost stumbled upon Alexander Mercurio on this online

chat room as they were investigating a completely different issue related to cryptocurrency

But ultimately as they continued to monitor the messages between who they later learned to be Mercurio, they noticed that he was expressing pro-ISIS views and was increasingly

talking about carrying out actual acts of violence as he was becoming radicalized online

But a law enforcement official is telling CNN that these efforts to plan and carry out an actual attack seemed to intensify after

last month's attack in Moscow, the ISIS attack against a concert hall in Moscow

That left over 140 people dead. You know, they point to this video that was posted

allegedly posted showing Mercurio swearing an oath of allegiance to ISIS standing in front of an ISIS flag with what appears to be a knife

They also point to a series of messages again between someone who Mercurio thought could help him join ISIS

overseas, but was actually working for the FBI. The first message or one of the first messages is from March 21st, 2024

It says Mercurio types, I have motivation for nothing but fighting like some kind of insatiable bloodlust for the life juice of these

idolaters, a craving for mayhem and murder to terrorize those around me. I need some better weapons than knives

So a couple days later on March 25th and 26th, Mercurio again messages the same person

allegedly and seems to outline what his plan was to carry out this attack against churches in Idaho

He says the plan is basically this, equip the weapons and storm the temple, kill as many as possible

before they inevitably disperse, scatter, then burn the temple to the ground and flee the scene, then move on to the next church, rinse and

repeat for all 21 plus churches in the town until killed. So, you know, the FBI is saying that Mercurio clearly making his intentions or stating his intentions in those messages

He, they said that he was planning to carry out this attack on April 7th, but again was taken into custody before that. And as you mentioned, he does face up to 20 years in federal prison

We're waiting for him to make his first court appearance here in the next day or so

All right. We know you're following this very closely, Zach. Thanks so much for being with us this morning