>> on the client role streak in virginia, residents along thomasville road watched as federal agents raided this home yesterday. according to neighbors, he and his wife and children rented the house the past two years. no one knew them very well. >> just waving, saying hi. there were a lot of vehicles up and down the road, and people going in and out of the house. obviously, with materials -- >> still in street clothes, alex soueid told a federal judge in the first court appearance he wanted his own attorney. for now, he'll remain in federal custody. in a 15-page indictment, the u.s. government alleges he collected both video and audio of people protesting against the syria government; then passed it along to them to be used to silence them. it described a recent trip to syria, a meeting between soueid and an e-mail to the syria embassy in washington, d.c.. >> if we knew something was going on on the street here, they had been following him quite a while. this is a photo taken from the twitter page. there's only five tweets all from last january. sources tell me, he's worked at a var