All articles tagged with #foiled attack
An attempted attack in New Orleans was prevented when ex-marine Micah James Legnon was arrested with weapons and body armor, linked to an extremist anti-government group planning violence, including a bomb plot in California and a deadly attack in New Orleans' French Quarter.
Swedish police have foiled an attack on the Israeli Embassy in Stockholm, preventing a potential security threat.
Israel's Mossad intelligence agency announced that it carried out an operation in Iran to capture the suspected leader of an Iranian plot to attack Israeli businesspeople in Cyprus, successfully foiling the attack. The captured suspect, Yousef Shahabazi Abbasalilu, confessed to receiving instructions and weapons from senior officials in Iran's Revolutionary Guards. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu emphasized that Israel will continue to defend itself against any threats, including Iran's alleged nuclear ambitions, regardless of any nuclear deal between the United States and Tehran.
Austrian security services have arrested three people between the ages of 14 and 20 on suspicion of planning an attack at the Vienna Pride Parade. The suspects are Austrian citizens with Bosnian and Chechen roots and are sympathizers of the "Islamic State" terrorist group. Police seized items that were prohibited under Austria's weapons law after executing a search warrant at the people's homes. The parade was attended by 300,000 people, and the Austrian chancellor expressed gratitude to the investigators for preventing a possible Islamist attack in Vienna.