FBI foils New Year’s Eve bombing plot in Los Angeles
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The FBI claims to have thwarted a terrorist plot to carry out coordinated bombings in Los Angeles on New Year's Eve, arresting five members of a pro-Palestinian extremist group accused of planning attacks in the City of Angels,
A radical, pro-Palestinian group known as the Turtle Island Liberation Front plotted to carry out coordinated bombings against several targets in Southern California beginning on New Year’s Eve, according to federal authorities.
Multiple splinter cell members of the radical Turtle Island Liberation Front, which posts disturbing slogans such as “Death to America” on social media, were arrested last Friday for allegedly plotting a New Year’s Eve terror attack in the Los Angeles area.
A suspected New Year’s Eve terror plot involving an obscure extremist group has been disrupted in southern California, according to US federal authorities, prompting fresh scrutiny of the Turtle Island Liberation Front and its ideology.