[1] Jaelyn Young, a former honors student and cheerleader, isolated herself from former friends and began wearing the traditional Muslim faith garment, a niqab, around the Mississippi State campus.
[2] In 2014 and 2015, the pair watched a number of ISIS propaganda videos featuring Anjem Choudary, and came to believe that the American media offered a "complete cloud of falsehood."
The FBI found additional evidence that Dakhlalla made statements asserting his usefulness in computers, education and media, and combat for ISIS.
[4] While they made elaborate plans for their journey,[5] the two hid their intentions so poorly they came to the attention of various monitoring groups, including the Program on Extremism at George Washington University.
[6] They were arrested at Golden Triangle Regional Airport in Columbus, MS, on August 10, 2015, while attempting to board a flight to Turkey (via Europe) to meet their ISIS recruiter.