CBS: Mississippi Couple Planned to Join ISIS Using Honeymoon as Cover

O’DONNELL: “A young couple accused of trying to join ISIS is due in court this morning in Mississippi. Jaelyn Young and her new husband Muhammad Dakhlalla were arrested over the weekend at a local airport. Jeff Pegues is in Washington with new information on these arrests. Jeff, good morning.”

PEGUES: “Good morning. Investigator say, the couple planned to join ISIS overseas and intended to use their honeymoon as a cover but the Mississippi couple never made it out of the U.S. The FBI arrested them before they could get on a plane. On Saturday, authorities arrested Jaelyn Young and Muhammad Dakhlalla at the Golden Triangle regional airport in Columbus, Mississippi. They planned to bound Delta Airlines flight to Atlanta and then were headed overseas to Amsterdam and finally to Istanbul, Turkey. The pair allegedly got married in June in the U.S. and according to investigators, planned to conceal their true intent of crossing the Turkish border into Syria and fighting for ISIS by posing as honeymooners. The newspaper in Vicksburg, Mississippi, reports young was an honor roll student in high school and a member of the homecoming court. Dakhlalla graduated from MSU in May with a degree in psychology. Both are U.S. citizens. What the couple didn’t know was that the FBI has had undercover agents working this case in the last four months. It is one of the hundreds of ISIS related investigations that the bureau has right now across the country.”