String of Global ISIS New Year’s Eve Attacks Foiled
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A string of global ISIS-backed New Year’s Eve terror attacks were foiled by security officials.
In New York, US federal authorities announced a man was arrested and charged with planning an attack on a bar to prove to ISIS that he was worthy of joining up with jihadists in Syria.
25-year-old Emanuel Lutchman was charged by prosecutors with attempting to provide material support to terrorists. He was taken down by officials in an FBI sting.
According to a federal complaint, Lutchman is a self-professed convert to Islam. He claimed to have received instructions from an overseas ISIS member and planned to attack a bar in the Rochester area on Thursday evening. He purchased knives and a machete to carry out the attack.
Court documents obtained by the International Business Times stated that Lutchman planned to “do operations and kill some kuftar.” He was prepared to “give up everything” for ISIS.
The FBI revealed that Lutchman was not acting along. Initially, Lutchman recruited two friends to form a terror cell. One friend dropped out and the second was working with the FBI, unknown to Lutchman.
The report added that Lutchman first considered carrying out a bombing attack and then kidnapping and killing civilians. On Tuesday night, he purchased from a Walmart store masks, knives, gloves, zip ties, duct tape, ammonia and a machete.
On Wednesday, the day of his arrest, Lutchman filmed a video on his phone swearing allegiance to ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
In a separate incident, police in Munich warned of a “serious, imminent threat” by ISIS suicide bombers on New Year’s Eve. Authorities told people to stay away from the city’s main train station as the train station in the Pasing neighborhood.
Munich police president Hubertus Andrae told the media that German authorities were tipped off to the attack by a foreign intelligence service. Police spokesman Werner Kraus told the Associated Press that “after evaluating the situation, we started evacuating the train stations and also asked partygoers to stay away from big crowds outside.”
According to German news agency dpa, ISIS was planning attacks with five to seven suicide bombers. The warning was only handed over to German official’s hours before the new year.
550 security officers were deployed across the city to track down and arrest the suspects, as well as secure the suspected sites.
Read more at http://www.breakingisraelnews.com/57698/string-global-isis-new-years-eve-attacks-foiled-terror-watch/#uGWSQLIiOjJzRorK.99
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