Posted on 08/08/2024 11:49:07 AM PDT by Rummyfan
You have probably heard about the serious attempt by ISIS sympathizers to carry out a terrorist attack at a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna and the cancelation of that leg of her tour.
Two teens, aged 17 and 19, have been arrested and a 15-year-old has been taken in for questioning. A search of one of the residences of the suspects revealed chemicals and materials to construct homemade explosives.
“The situation was serious, the situation is serious. But we can also say: A tragedy was prevented,” Austria’s Interior Minister Gerhard Karner said Thursday.
The New York Post is reporting that the plot involved driving a car into a crowd outside of Ernst Happel Stadium, the venue for all three Swift concerts, blowing it up, and attacking individuals in the crowd with machetes.
The younger suspect had just been hired on as a security guard for the venue.
We're now learning that the plot had progressed to the point where the preparations for carrying it out were almost complete. The bomb that the suspects were building was almost finished, and the younger suspect had just been hired as a security guard.
The two young men had been under surveillance by Austrian authorities, according to news sources. It's possible their social media footprint raised red flags after authorities confirmed they had both been radicalized online by the Islamic State...
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Don’t worry more self worship shows already scheduled in London didn’t even phase her
True. There’s no accounting for taste.
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