{"id":117874,"date":"2024-12-20T17:05:53","date_gmt":"2024-12-20T15:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=117874"},"modified":"2024-12-20T10:58:03","modified_gmt":"2024-12-20T08:58:03","slug":"21-05-109","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=117874","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Proof terror knows no boundaries,\u2019 Israeli envoy in NY says of thwarted terror attack"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>\u2018Proof terror knows no boundaries,\u2019 Israeli envoy in NY says of thwarted terror attack<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n

Menachem Wecker<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cIsrael will not cower to terror,\u201d the Israeli mission to the United Nations in Manhattan stated. \u201cWe will not be silent in the face of hate and violence.\u201d<\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n

Anti-Israel protesters gather near the Consulate General of Israel in New York on Oct. 9, 2023, two days after Hamas’s terror attack in southern Israel. Photo by Adam Gray\/AFP via Getty Images.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

An Egyptian national, who is a George Mason University freshman with reported ties to ISIS, was arrested on Tuesday in Falls Church, Va., and charged with planning a terror attack on the Israeli Consulate General in New York.<\/span><\/p>\n

Between Nov. 22 and Dec. 4, Abdullah Ezzeldin Taha Mohamed Hassan, 18, allegedly distributed \u201cinformation related to explosives, destructive devices and weapons of mass destruction in furtherance of commission of a federal crime of violence\u201d of \u201cfirst-degree murder of internationally protected persons,\u201d per a criminal complaint filed with the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.<\/span><\/p>\n

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is currently going through the process of deporting Hassan, according to a 14-page affidavit that the FBI agent, who arrested the student, filed on Dec. 16 seeking an arrest warrant.<\/span><\/p>\n

Hassan operated three social media accounts that praised Osama bin Laden and ISIS, per the affidavit, which also alleges that the student wrote on social media that Hamas is an \u201carmed resistance\u201d rather than a terror group, and that the Israel Defense Forces \u201chave been committing war crimes for decades,\u201d and \u201cit\u2019s only time Palestine fight back.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

An FBI agent contacted Hassan on Aug. 24 and posed as a fellow traveler, per the affidavit. On Nov. 15, Hassan shared a pro-ISIS video with the undercover agent \u201cthat called for the killing of Jews,\u201d per the affidavit. The agent pledged to follow Hassan\u2019s lead, and in the coming days offered to act on behalf of ISIS locally. <\/span><\/p>\n

Hassan told the agent to \u201caim for government buildings,\u201d and advised him on how to make a martyrdom video and how to \u201cmask his identity, distort his voice and record the video with a blank background,\u201d per the court document. The agent asked Hassan for a target on Nov. 23 and for bomb-making guides.<\/span><\/p>\n

The defendant allegedly told the agent \u201cthat he could find a bomb-making instructions by looking for a specific search term on archive.org\u201d and gave the agent \u201cadvice for bypassing Google\u2019s potential censorship of the search results,\u201d the FBI agent stated. Hassan then sent the agent \u201ca direct link to the video with the bomb-making instructions\u201d and \u201csuggested that, based on the size of the bomb,\u201d the agent \u201cshould get a backpack to put the bomb in.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

On that same day, Nov. 23, the agent told Hassan that he was in New York, and the student told him that the city was a \u201cgoldmine of targets\u201d and told him to attack a site that represents the \u201cYahud,\u201d or Jews. On Nov. 24, Hassan directed the agent to the address of the Consulate General of Israel, per the affidavit.<\/span><\/p>\n

The affidavit further alleges that Hassan directed the agent to buy a certain kind of rifle and ammunition using bitcoin, or other untraceable means, and to scout out the site for ways to enter and escape routes, and to make a video that ISIS would publish. He subsequently told the agent to either shoot people on the site or to detonate a suicide vest within a crowd at the consulate. <\/span><\/p>\n

Hassan also allegedly told the agent to livestream the attack and how to book a flight to a country without extradition laws, particularly Borno, in Nigeria. He also recommended types of material to put in a bomb, per the affidavit.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe State of Israel deeply appreciates the swift action and cooperation of the American security services in thwarting the recent attempted attack on our consulate,\u201d stated Ofir Akunis, consul general of Israel in New York.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis attempted attack by terror organizations is an attack on the sovereign soil of the State of Israel in its entirety. It\u2019s proof that terror knows no boundaries and that we must fight it everywhere and every time,\u201d Akunis added. \u201cThe threat it poses to the Western world and its values must be fought together by all western democracies alike. Together we will prevail.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Jonathan Harounoff, international spokesman for the Israeli mission to the United Nations in New York, stated that \u201cIsrael will not cower to terror. We will not be silent in the face of hate and violence. We will not stop in our pursuit of justice and peace.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe will continue in our fight to return all 100 of our hostages still being held in Hamas terror tunnels in Gaza,\u201d Harounoff added. \u201cThank you to our American security counterparts for their collaboration in identifying and thwarting this heinous attempted act of terror in New York City.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

George Mason University has banned Hassan from campus, the Washington Post<\/em><\/a> reported.<\/span><\/p>\n

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, wrote<\/a> that she is \u201cgrateful for the quick action taken by the FBI in apprehending the suspect and preventing this cowardly act of antisemitic terror from occurring.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHate has no place in New York, and we will always stand with our Jewish neighbors,\u201d she added.<\/span><\/p>\n

Police recently found<\/a> guns and terror flags in the home of sisters, who led the George Mason chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine. The public university banned them from campus, stated<\/a> Gregory Washington, the school president. A George Mason spokesman told the Post<\/em> that the two cases appear to be unrelated.<\/span><\/p>\n

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