Editor’s Note:  The New York Times published a story today about former Vero Beach resident, Moner Mohammad Abusalha. The Times’ report includes a video of Abusalha providing new details into his mind-set before he died in an attack in May in northern Syria.  Twenty-two-year-old Abu-Salha was the son of Mohammad Abusalha and Michelle Abusalha of Vero Beach.

WASHINGTON — When Moner Mohammad Abusalha drove a truck packed with explosives into a restaurant in northern Syria in May, American authorities conceded that they knew little about how a young man who grew up a basketball-obsessed teenager in a Florida gated community had become a suicide bomber.

And they have never publicly acknowledged the startling discovery they made weeks into their investigation: that after receiving training by an extremist group in Syria, Mr. Abusalha had returned to the United States for several months before leaving the country for the last time. MORE…