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Taylor Swift shows in Vienna canceled after 2 arrested for planning ISIS-inspired terror plot
ABC NEWS ^ | 8-7-24 | Aaron Katersky, Felix Franz, Will Gretsky, Emily Shapiro, Josh Margolin, and Luke Barr

Posted on 08/08/2024 10:39:59 AM PDT by AirForceVet1988

Taylor Swift's three concerts in Vienna this week have been canceled after two suspects were arrested for allegedly plotting a terror attack, authorities said.

"We have no choice but to cancel the three scheduled shows for everyone's safety," a message from Barracuda Music said. "All tickets will be automatically refunded."

The cancellation comes hours after authorities announced a 19-year-old Austrian citizen was arrested Wednesday morning and a second suspect was arrested in the afternoon.

The suspects allegedly radicalized themselves online, Franz Ruf, director-general for public safety in the Ministry of the Interior, said at a press conference. The 19-year-old suspect allegedly pledged allegiance to the leader of the Islamic State at the beginning of July, Ruf said.

Vienna was a target of their planned attack and the 19-year-old suspect had a particular focus on Swift's Vienna concert, Ruf said.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: isis; jihad; moslem; swift; taylor; teenagers; terrorism; vienna
I still can't find info if these 3 teens were Muslim immigrants or local Austrians. But the story is fresh. It'll come out eventually.
1 posted on 08/08/2024 10:39:59 AM PDT by AirForceVet1988
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To: AirForceVet1988

Coming to your country, if they aren’t already here, Taylor.


2 posted on 08/08/2024 10:42:36 AM PDT by brownsfan (It's going to take real, serious, hard times to wake the American public.)
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To: AirForceVet1988

Ah yes, 19 year-old “Austrians.”

Admirers of Mozart no doubt, who are distressed by pop-music.


3 posted on 08/08/2024 10:43:39 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: AirForceVet1988

Immigrants, but from Albania or one of the other Slavic countries with a high Islamic population. Slavs though.


4 posted on 08/08/2024 10:44:06 AM PDT by Hieronymus ( )
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To: brownsfan

She’ll keep voting this stuff in and endorsing it as well!


5 posted on 08/08/2024 10:48:51 AM PDT by mikelets456
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To: AirForceVet1988

Still can’t see why she is this famed talent. Good manager I suppose. Talent?? Yes...I suppose...she got rich off whatever talent she has. Maybe that’s the talent..


6 posted on 08/08/2024 10:54:09 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: AirForceVet1988

BS meter is twitching. Swift is on their side. This is a publicity stunt or a prelude to war.


7 posted on 08/08/2024 11:00:22 AM PDT by Wilderness Conservative (Nature is the ultimate conservative)
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To: Wilderness Conservative

Swift is a terrorist?

Lol


8 posted on 08/08/2024 11:06:01 AM PDT by Fuzz
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To: Wilderness Conservative

They don’t see it that way.


9 posted on 08/08/2024 11:10:05 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: Fuzz

Too many cute girls not wearing the prescribed costume.


10 posted on 08/08/2024 12:15:51 PM PDT by mykroar ("It's Not the Nature of the Evidence; It's the Seriousness of the Charge." - El Rushbo)
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To: nickcarraway

They work for the same people.


11 posted on 08/08/2024 12:36:13 PM PDT by Wilderness Conservative (Nature is the ultimate conservative)
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To: AirForceVet1988

Maybe T Swift could write a new song - “feeling 72”…..about an ex-bf Mo, they break up, he blows up, takes her with him, and she gets to be one of his 72 virgins.


12 posted on 08/08/2024 12:43:08 PM PDT by Repeat Offender (While the wicked stand confounded, call me with Thy saints surrounded.)
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To: mikelets456

I have no idea what a Taylor Swift is. Some kind of bird?

I looked it up, here’s the really funny description on line:

“The swifts are a family, Apodidae, of highly aerial birds. They are superficially SIMILAR TO SWALLOWS but are not closely related to any passerine species.


13 posted on 08/08/2024 12:43:11 PM PDT by Veto! (FJB Sucks Rocks)
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To: Wilderness Conservative

I think you are confusing things. You think Muslim terrorists like U.S. popstars? Leftists use Muslims for their own ends. As soon as they are done with them, they will destroy them. Leftists use Muslims to distract people from their real enemy and it usually works.


14 posted on 08/08/2024 12:49:45 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

I think the same powers control the leftist, terrorists, pop stars, etc.


15 posted on 08/08/2024 2:13:30 PM PDT by Wilderness Conservative (Nature is the ultimate conservative)
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To: AirForceVet1988

Austria is in a sense the epitome of anti-semitism. When Nazi hunters, decades ago, went to Austria to find nazis they were essentially told to go to hell by Austrians.


16 posted on 08/08/2024 2:37:38 PM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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To: Wilderness Conservative

I don’t know there. There is a story over at the Bee where Swift launched a counter strike.


17 posted on 08/08/2024 2:39:44 PM PDT by Texas resident (Que Mala= Bad Juju.)
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