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Thursday, November 19, 2015

FBI Braces For Holiday Terror Attacks

In the wee hours of July 4, FBI counter-terrorism agents in the Boston area scrambled to thwart the last of a string of Islamic State terror plots they feared could be conducted during the patriotic holiday or soon after.

Just weeks earlier, an agent and Boston officers had shot and killed an ISIS sympathizer on the same streets, right before he boarded a bus armed with a military-style knife and plans to attack cops and behead a woman.

Now, an undercover operative set up a weapons buy on the streets with a young Massachusetts man, the son of a respected cop but now someone who had been radicalized by the Islamic State. Agents believed he was plotting to shoot or blow up students at an out-of-state campus with bombs laced with Styrofoam, which sticks to skin and worsens the burns.

The buy went down, the young man was arrested and a search of his apartment quickly confirmed agents’ fears.

The harrowing ending to the two Boston cases this summer seemed ripped from a Hollywood movie script — except the threats were real and the consequences of stumbling could have been lethal.

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7 comments:

Anonymous said...

vote for Trump

Anonymous said...

Your vote doesn't even count if you live in MD. When will you people understand how the electoral college works? Keep wasting your time cheering for your GOP heros all you want, but realize it makes no difference.

Anonymous said...

10:17 I understand your sentiment but giving up does not help, we did elect Hogan

Anonymous said...

Federal election not state election. Yes you did, He is what the 3 rd republican governor in past 50 years? It is a start but the damage is done and most of it cannot be reversed. Me and my money won't be returning to MD as a resident and I'm waiting for some rebound in RE market to liquidate some properties there too.

Anonymous said...

10:54 DID you really elect Hogan????

If you knew how the system works, you would know voting is a waste of time and your vote doesn't count... MORON...

You have a blinded view of how voting works in this country... And I agree we cannot give up, but voting isn't the way... You have to protest, or help others who are trying to stop this, but being informed and doing due-diligence... When someone calls for help or to stand, then you stand, not sit at home running your mouth over the internet about how you think you got some man elected... You didn't get him elected, the powers at be LET HIM GET ELECTED...

Watch how this governor will not do anything for medical marijuana nor gun laws, he even said he wouldn't fix or change or help those laws...

Anonymous said...

11:40 your bluster and personal agenda is not a platform to be a tool... if marijuana is your activism.. project it ..don't attack another citizen because it has your nerve synapses in flames

Anonymous said...

Elitists run the country not the working class voter.