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.
Someone on youtube was claiming the elevators where shut off at some point. Do you know if that is true?
Thanks
All I recall at the moment without checking various articles is that one (Campos) said he was on the floor as a result of a report that a doorway (fire exit?) was jammed and the other,(Schuck sp?) said he was sent to the floor for the same reason, found Campos wounded on the floor and Campos called out to him ‘take cover’
The door in question was directly opposite the second entry to the hotel suite. Very handy for an exit...
I imagine that fire door (leading to stairs?) allowed the perps to make their exit. Up or down? Easy to blend with hotel guests and leave the hotel. I imagine exit from the stairs would be to any chosen floor...
If you’ve had an epiphany, it’s no great mystery.
http://cfcarts.com/about/book-us-for-your-event/
I can’t see the text from the video on that site...
From their web site:
Managing the Unexpected
No one can plan for every emergency; that’s when the unexpected can become a crisis. Understanding the issue and how to manage it requires structure, clear thinking and candor. Managing the issue also requires the knowledge and experience necessary to navigate the media channels and defuse the crisis. Crisis Communication: It’s what we do.
Managing Corporate Communication
Look who’s talking; it seems like it’s everybody. Ensuring that your stakeholders – be they clients or employees – hear and understand your message requires the right language and in the appropriate format. We know what needs to be said, by whom and how, to ensure that your voice will be heard and your message received loud and clear
In other words this Sara Brady organization works with a theatrical performing arts organization working that also works with News media to help them create content in emergency unexpected situations. This was on the T-Shirt of the brother that was killed in the mass murder.
Also, the car in the driveway at Eric house in Las Vagus was from Florida. Same state the theater is in on the other side of the country.
Still can’t link to that text. Can you direct me? Not doubting your info, it fits.
Sorry, missed something.
What theater and what brother was killed?
Sara Brady...
http://sarabradypr.com/crisis-reputation-management/
“...To deal with these challenges, you need a professional who has managed some of the biggest crisis and reputation management challenges in recent memory. Sara Brady worked with Pulse Nightclub after the shocking shooting that made news around the world in June of 2016...”
Central Florida community arts theater which was the website on Eric Paddocks T-Shirt brother of the accused mass murderer. The theater works with the Sara Brady organization. Sara Brady organization helps the Media build stories.
Something went wrong and it blew up in their face.
Got it now...Sara Brady supports the Central Florida Community Arts...
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She’s the crisis management identity and Eric is a member of CFCA according to his T shirt, and Eric’s brother Stephen was in the middle of the greatest shooting event in US history.
It’s going to take a while. Looks like ‘we have a crisis, better get onto the people who handled PR for the Pulse Nightclub’
No wonder Eric Paddock sounded so weird.
Ok, thanks.
I noticed the T-shirt many days ago. Didn’t know the significance.
I’ve studied the faces of the people in the audience, some are smiling as the bullets pop around them, some are holding their drinks carefully so as not to spill them. There are men in law enforcement uniforms leaning against vehicles showing absolutely no tension on their faces...it all begins to feel like Alice Through The Looking Glass.
Two hundred rounds fired through a door and just a small sprinkling of bullet holes. Something went wrong alright. Sara Brady has got her work cut out for her, explaining the numerous anomalies. Let’s see how well she does it.
On one side of Alice’s mirror is what really happened, on the other side of the same mirror is the fabricated scenario.
Who is paying Sara Brady?
The FBI seems to be playing along.
Some did die...because the sting didn’t go the way it should have. The ‘clients’ killed the agent, then turned the weapons on the crowd.
I’m thinking the crisis actors didn’t expect live bullets.
The Courier Mail (Brisbane Australia) has this article:
excerpt:
“...Wendy Miller from Cooroy, on the Sunshine Coast, was also caught up in the attack.
She was at a bar in the nearby Luxor Hotel with her husband when she saw what she described as a “man of interest” run by.
“We managed to make our way back to our room…” she told The Courier-Mail.
“We are in lock down.
“Our door is dead locked and a chair against the door.”
Ms Miller said the man sprinted through her hotel after coming off an escalator from the Mandalay Bay.
“The man that they [security] were chasing was wearing a security jacket like them,” she said.”
Las Vegas guard Jesus Campos vanished after visiting urgent-care clinic, union leader says
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