A citizen of Bangladesh who had been living in Maryland has been charged with attempting to provide material support and resources to the Islamic State group.

A court document says that 24 years old Nelash Mohamed Das of Hyattsville was ready to carry out what he thought was an attack on a member of the U.S. military when he had been arrested on Friday. The supposed attack had been set up by a confidential informant for the FBI.

Das, a legal permanent resident of the United States, made his first appearance in federal court on Monday. He has been ordered held until a detention hearing on Thursday. Online court records did not list an attorney for him, though a spokeswoman for the United States Attorney for the District of Maryland said Das had been assigned a public defender.

According to court documents filed in his case, Das voiced support on his social media accounts for the Islamic State group from late 2015 to early 2016, including support for attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, California, and had taken a training and submitted fingerprints in order to get a handgun permit. He told a confidential informant for the FBI that he wanted to kill U.S military personnel.

Das reportedly told the informant, that Conducting an attack is "like my goal in life," t.

Das met the FBI's confidential informant in May 2016 and thought he was a like-minded supporter of the Islamic State group, the court documents say.

The confidential informant told Das that he had gotten information about a target, member of the U.S. military, from an Islamic State group contact in Iraq. Das reportedly said that he wanted to help carry out an attack on the person and bought ammunition for it. Das believed that the confidential informant's contact in Iraq would pay $80,000 in exchange for the attack.

Das had been arrested after loading a gun and traveling with the informant to a location where he believed they would conduct the attack.

By Prakriti Neogi