A Muslim high school dropout has been convicted of conspiring to join a foreign terrorist group so he could kill U.S. troops in Afghanistan

Betim Kaziu faces life in prison for the jihadi adventure that took him to Saudi Arabia, Egypt and finally Kosovo - where he was arrested in 2009. The jury deliberated for less than four hours before reaching a verdict in the two-week trial in Brooklyn Federal Court. Kaziu smiled and waved to his parents, who emigrated from Macedonia. Kaziu, 23, wanted to become a member of the Taliban or the Somali-based Al Shabbab so he could die a Muslim martyr on a battlefield in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Palestine or Africa.