Ohio Man Pleads Guilty To Plotting July 4th Terrorist Attack In Attempt To Aid Al Qaeda

An Ohio man has pleaded guilty in an attempt to provide material aid to by plotting a terrorist attack on July 4^th.

The Maple Heights man, Demetrius Nathaniel Pitts (also known as Abdur Raheem Rafeeq and Salah ad-Deen Osama Waleed) spent two years expressing anti-American sentiments and a “desire to recruit people to kill Americans,” the Department of Justice said in a statement released Tuesday. Pitts, 50, “pleaded guilty to attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization, threats against the President of the United States and threats against family members of the President of the United States,” the statement said.