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The young man Christopher Cornell, 20, from Ohio, who was charged with plotting to attack the US Capitol and claiming sympathy with IS militants, said in a television interview to Cincinnati's FOX 19 WXIX TV that if he had not been arrested by FBI agents in January, he would have carried out an alleged plot to plant pipe bombs on the Capitol and at the Israeli Embassy.

He said that he would also have shot President Barack Obama in the head during the attack. "What would I have done? I would have took my gun, I would have put it to Obama's head and I would have pulled the trigger," Cornell, of Cincinnati, said in a telephone interview from the Boone County, Kentucky, jail aired on Friday.

"Then I would have released more bullets on the Senate and the House of Representative members, and I would have attacked the Israeli Embassy and various other buildings full of kafir who want to wage war against us Muslims and shed our blood. That's what would happen," he said.

Cornell began plotting the attack in August, according to his indictment. He was arrested after he posted on Twitter that he supported Islamic State. He was arrested after he learnt how to make pipe bombs, purchased a rifle and ammunition and made plans to travel to Washington to carry out the plot, according to court testimony from an FBI informant.

"I got orders from the brothers overseas because I'm with the Islamic State. My brothers over there, in Syria and Iraq, gave me specific orders to carry out jihad in the West, so I did so," Cornell said.

-Kannamsai