FBI Foils New Year's Eve Attacks in Southern California
20 hours ago
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- Four individuals arrested in Los Angeles for allegedly plotting New Year’s Eve bombings.
- Suspects identified as members of the Turtle Island Liberation Front (TILF), an anti-government extremist group.
- Planned attacks involved planting IEDs (improvised explosive devices) at multiple locations across Los Angeles.
- Group allegedly used encrypted messaging (Signal) and tested explosives in the Mojave Desert.
- FBI found materials capable of constructing IEDs and Molotov cocktails at the suspects' campsite.
- Suspects claimed they did not intend to kill people and would warn bystanders.
- Arrests linked to broader efforts to counter far-left extremist threats in the U.S.
- Defendants expected to appear in federal court in Los Angeles.