New Jersey Jihadist wanted to mutilate gays, blow up high school as troubled teen

Terror suspects Mohamed Mahmood Alessa (l.) and Carlos Eduardo Almonte had trouble pasts as young New Jersey men.

The other turned to hate after high school and has had multiple run-ins with cops.

One of the Jersey Jihadists was radicalized in his early teens and boasted about wanting to mutilate gays and blow up his school.

Mohamed Mahmood Alessa, 20, and Carlos Eduardo Almonte, 24, were nabbed Saturday as they tried to board flights to wage jihad in Africa, authorities say.

Six years earlier, Alessa was barred from attending classes at North Bergen High School because officials deemed him dangerous.

"He was exhibiting this crazy, radicalized behavior," a source told the Daily News. "He was threatening classmates, threatening staff - all as part of this radicalized terroristic behavior."

Hints of Alessa's radicalization came when he was only 14.

The son of Palestinian immigrants transferred to North Bergen High School from the Al Huda School, a private Islamic school in Paterson, in the fall of 2004. Within months, officials placed Alessa on "home instruction," forcing him to be taught alone at the North Bergen Public Libraryunder the watchful eye of a school security guard.

A school official who was at KAS at the time told the Bergen Record Alessa talked about mutilating homosexuals, subordinating women in the name of Islam and blowing up the school with a gang of Muslims. NYDaily News