For the first time Monday, it was revealed that 19-year-old Mohammed Hamzah Khan also purchased airfare for two teenage siblings and tried to take them overseas with him. They didn’t make it any further than O’Hare International Airport though.
Prosecutors say Khan was nabbed by the FBI’s Chicago Joint Terrorism Task Force while trying to get onto an Austrian Airlines flight to Istanbul, via Vienna — and that he left a trail of evidence of his desire to join the terror group.
While Khan was still at O’Hare, agents found a map with a hand-drawn arrow pointing from the U.S. to Turkey and then on to Syria and Iraq, documents state. A drawing of the ISIS logo with the words “Come to jihad” was also allegedly found.
And in his note for his parents, Khan allegedly wrote, “I extend an invitation, to my family, to join me in the Islamic State.
”We are the lions of war,” it continued.