Young King

Tonight, we have disturbing news

about homegrown terror.

Last week, three Ohio men were convicted of plotting attacks

against the US military.

And as it turns out, this was not an isolated case.

These are new roadside bombs in Iraq,

more sophisticated and far more powerful than before.

The insurgents trained with weapons

and learned how to make suicide vests.

But this didn't happen in Iraq, Afghanistan

or Pakistan.

This training played out in Toledo, Ohio,

and involved three Americans drawn to the call of jihad.

Emails and phone calls connect the Toledo cell

to terror suspects in at least three other North American

cities.

Making the road safer for other soldiers

may often feel like an impossible mission,

but they do manage to clear three out of four bombs that

are found on every journey.

And never far from their thoughts

are the memories of colleagues who haven't returned.

I see you attended Central Piedmont Community.

College.

Yes, ma'am.

Well, don't call me ma'am.

Candice is fine, thank you.

You have your associate's degree?

No, ma'am... no, Candice.

I enlisted before I could finish.

How long were you active?

March 2000 to December '05.

OK.

Our clients request office personnel.

It's administrative in nature.

I'm so sorry.

It's challenging to translate your military skills

to the services that we provide.

We might be able to place you in a mail room position that's

available at First Union.

It's for two months.

It's $6.15 an hour.

Honestly, without references, there's not much I can do.

What are you working on?

You know, just '99 Lincoln.

Nice.

Nice one.

Yeah.

What's the damage on this door?

Be $45.

All right.

Going to the auction?

Yeah, I figured I'd go there and see

what I can come up on.

I'll see you there.

All right now.

There you go.

Thank you.

See you next time.

All right.

All right, have a good day.

Come on.

Jump.

Jump for me, baby, come on.

Hey, Dre.

Hey, mother.

I finished the car.

It just needed the alternator change, that's all.

Oh, that's good.

I appreciate you.

Could you stay here for a moment?

OK now.

Oh, what's this for?

Oh, come on.

You fixed the car.

No, no, mother.

I can't take your money.

I'm sorry.

I just can't take your money.

Well, thank you, and God bless you.

All right, now.

Have a good day.

You too.

If you are having thoughts of suicide,

press seven now to be connected to the Veteran Crisis Line.

To continue, please state your last and first name.

Howell, Diondre.

You good?

Hot, hmm?

Hmm?

Good?

I'm hot.

Why don't you help me dig the hole, huh?

Hmm?

Yeah, I thought so.

The Toledo Trio was in frequent contact

with two Chicago men, who are now

charged with plotting attacks of their own.

All were busted, but the connections

show there is an active network of support for homegrown

radicals looking to do us harm.

Oh, look.

You already know.

Hey, hey, hey.

I know y'all ain't playing without me.

Uncle Dre.

What's good?

What's good, man?

Oh.

What's up?

Hey, so you want to play a game of 21 tomorrow?

21?

Yeah.

So I can beat you tomorrow?

There you go.

What up, baby?

What up?

My guy.

My guy.

What's happening?

How you been?

What's up with you, man.

What up, man?

I'm good, man.

Oh, yeah, man.

Thank you.

Get you a drink.

For real, it's grow business.

Go ahead.

Uncle Dre, we still gonna play 21 tomorrow?

Tre.

Yeah, we run tomorrow.

Go in the house.

We do that tomorrow, too.

It's adult business out here.

Go ahead.

Night, night.

All right.

Time don't play, boy.

You ain't lying, boy.

They going to be your height soon.

Already.

I need to put a little bit more fear in them, huh?

Make them think twice.

The chosen one.

Brother, like he like.

LeBron all the way, for sure.

High school look like his hairline is 45.

That's why he wear the headband to hide his shit.

That's why you wear the headband.

Hide that shit back here.

Hey, what made you enlist?

Why you signed up for it?

I come from a long line of soldiers, man.

A bloodline for the people who just served their time.

Mmm.

You know.

When it's my time to do it, I do my time.

That was...

Amen.

Yeah.

As my daddy told me, man, it's the right thing to do.

It was the right thing to do.

A couple of reasons.

Of course, they was giving out the money

in college and all that.

That's what they was telling them.

But after that 9/11 shit,

I thought I could really go make a difference and help out and do

something positive.

That's the dream I was sold.

I didn't know I'd be actually giving me away in the process.

So, I wanted to help and make a difference.

I was part of the QRF, quick response force,

you know what I mean?

It's where you get sent out when there's

mortars or rockets being, like, lobbed at the base.

They send us out.

Yep.

So one day, we're getting hit bases

like boom, boom.

It's indirect.

It's not direct fire, so it's indirect,

but we still got to fucking go out.

So we go out, you know what I mean?

With a little three Humvee, little convoy, go out,

LTs and command, lieutenant.

We go out looking for these motherfuckers in the village.

Out of nowhere, though.

I see dots.

I see one dot.

One dot turned to three.

Three turned to five.

Five turned to 12.

It's like doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, dot, dot,

dot.

And I'm like, what the fuck?

They get closer and closer.

And the first thing that popped in my mind

was like, how the hell do they get our uniforms?