It looks like he is an english medium student back in Bangladesh and went to South East Missouri Sate University to study on Cyber Security.
He was brainwashed in a facebook page according to the report and by a magazine of Al Qaeda. He may or may not have the capability to carry out the attack but he expressed his desire in a extreme facebook chat room and rest is known. I do not know whether counselling could have been provided to him instead more persuade him to carry out the attack. The same thing expressed in the later part of the video.
Youth needs to be careful what he is saying and doing online specially in anonymous facebook pages or in other chat room.
No amount of counselling would change such clueless brainless idiots, in my opinion, whatever went wrong, went wrong much earlier with his upbringing. I do not feel sorry for him at all, I am glad that FBI entrapped him and caught him in the act, he deserves to rot in jail.
He was old enough, 21 and he has to take full responsibility for his actions. Not only that, unfortunately we Bangladeshi's now have to take full responsibility for creating such an idiot as a nation and community. This should teach us that we are all in this together. One idiots action can affect all of us like this. Now extend that to 1.6 billion Muslims, and then you can get a more clear picture, what is wrong with the Muslim world today. What every Muslim does on world stage affects all of us, so individuals must realize this fact and act accordingly.
What school did he go to? What did his parents do for a living? Was he a pious mosque visiting guy? Did he pick up his ideas from his family, school or mosque, that is what I am after, or is it combination of all of them.
We need a total reorientation of educational system, so people know more about how the world really works, instead of so much memorization of so many subjects. If young students like him can do this kind of thing, this is a national security threat for the entire nation. If there can be someone like him, I am worried that there are many others like him, walking time bombs, who will destroy our image as a nation. So we need to get to the source of the problem.
Lets say he got brainwashed by websites, then we need to look for his character profile what made him susceptible to such brainwashing and how his upbringing gave him this character profile.