Posted on 10/06/2017 2:32:33 PM PDT by SSS Two
Investigators said the goal was to injure and maim as many people as possible, but the suspect was arrested before obtaining any weapons
Authorities have arrested three men in connection with an alleged ISIS-inspired plot to target music concerts, landmarks and crowded subways in New York, federal prosecutors announced Friday afternoon.
Three men, Abdulrahman El Bahnasawy, a 19-year-old Canadian citizen; Talha Haroon, a 19-year-old U.S. citizen based in Pakistan; and Russell Salic, a 37-year-old Philippines citizen were all arrested on terror-related charges in the alleged plot that would have targeted New York City during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan in 2016, according to Acting U.S. Attorney Joon H. Kim.
El Bahnasawy was arrested on May 21, 2016, in New Jersey and was preparing to carry out the attacks; he has since pleaded guilty to multiple terrorism offenses. Haroon had allegeldy made plans to travel to New York to join El Bahnasawy and was arrested in Pakistan. Salic, who allegedly wired money to the U.S. to fund the attack, was arrested in his home country.
Attorney information for the three men wasn't immediately available.
Kim's office said this latest New York terror plot was more aspirational than operational, but the trio talked about setting off bombs in Times Square and the subway system. Prosecutors said that Al Bahnasawy also communicated with an undercover agent posing as an ISIS sympathizer about wanting to "shoot up concerts cuz they kill lots of people."
"We just need guns in our hands," El Bahnasawy said. "That's how the Paris guys did it."
Haroon, meanwhile, told the undercover agent that he saw the subway as a "perfect" attack for the Ramadan attack, and that they should shoot as many train riders as possible before setting off suicide vests. He even talked about getting supplies to make explosives for the attack.
"When we runout of bullets we let the vests go off," he said on May 5, 2016.
Then, three days later Haroon added, "NY Needs to fall. It's a must."
News that a major New York area venue hosting a concert could have been in the ISIS crosshairs comes days after a lone actor with no link to any terror group opened fire on a crowd at a country music festival in Las Vegas. Stephen Paddock killed 58 people before taking his own life in his hotel room.
They kept this secret this long??
Things that make you say hmmm...
Yet the Second Amendment is the bogeyman
Oh yeah, and white males
This is pr for the fibbers. Maybe they had paddock under surveillance too, and things went bad.
So very true.
How many Filipino women work these days in the Casinos as “hostesses”,”cocktail waitresses”, “bartenders”, etc. and how many are connected to the Filipino Jihadists?
Things that make you go hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm one of the suspects is from the Philippines, maybe he’s related to Marylou Danley..
This thing is getting weirder by the minute. Drudge has a link on his page regarding a possible ISIS connection.
Yeah this government we got right now has never been more corrupt, this is the crap Trump is dealing with, it’s just himself and us going against these sc*mbags who are on orders from the Deep state Dumocrap treasonists. Notice how right on a dime as soon as this shooting happened, same day, they all attacked the NRA at once as if the NRA is responsible for making this wacko kill people. All the freakin’ RINOs, Rats even Rats not in office like Hillary right aways attacked it. That’s why they don’t want the truth to come out because it goes against their agenda which is to repeal the 2nd. Now it’s put a ban on the bumper stock as if any criminal is going to follow the law.
They tell us this almost 1 1/2 years after they were arrested ? And some stooges want us to wait until they tell us something about Vegas ?
A wolf walks into a bar with a parrot on his head. The bartender says “Where’d you get that?” The parrot says “United States. It’s full of ‘em.”
Better punch line: “ISIS. It’s full of ‘em.”
“....May 21, 2016....”
Talk about “slow walking” a story!!!!!! Wonder what the FBI’s motive was in dredging up a year old story?
Don’t forget, Las Vegas was the largest Mass Murder since Bill Clinton and Janet Reno burned 76 Men, Women and Children (20 or more) to death in the Branch Davidian Compound in Waco Texas.
Of course they were just a bunch of Religious (NOT MUSLIM)Nuts so no big deal.
“Al Bahnasawy also communicated with an undercover agent posing as an ISIS sympathizer about wanting to ‘shoot up concerts cuz they kill lots of people.’”
Paddock?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3592652/posts
...Prosecutors said that Al Bahnasawy also communicated with an undercover agent posing as an ISIS sympathizer about wanting to “shoot up concerts cuz they kill lots of people.”
Think about it. Looks like Paddock was identified as an agent by the peace-loving muzzies and the Mandalay Bay event was his death warrant. There were 59 victims.
The complete blackout of any rational news at all, and practically no irrational “news”, about the massacre in Las Vegas is very strange. Not a single thing is known about Paddock, according to the media.
If you were an Agent for the FBI, the less known about you, the better.
Compelling is the word.
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