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IED used in the NYC attack was packed with TATP, bomb throwers pledged to ISIS, travelled to Turkey and Saudi Arabia
2026-03-09
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

Self-radicalized ISIS bomb throwers used ‘Mother of Satan’ thrown at Gracie Mansion protest, more like them found Sunday in car parked nearby
Follow up to this story from yesterday.
[NYPost] A pair of ISIS-trained bully boyz were charged with hurling an IED at Gracie Mansion during a rowdy weekend protest — allegedly packing the homemade bomb with "Mother of Satan," a volatile explosive favored by international terrorists.

The two pro-Moslem fanatics — Ibraham Kayumi, 19, and Emir Balat, 18 — both self-radicalized in recent years and traveled to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...a NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all....
member, but not the most reliable...

and other terror-training hot spots, law enforcement sources close to the case told The Post.
Good to know.
Balat spent more than three months in Istanbul last year, while Ibrahim flew to Istanbul and Saudi Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula, largely made up of sand and oil rigs. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual haj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Formerly dictatorial and steeped in Olde Tyme Religion, deferring to Salafist holy men on all issues, it has now done a 180 and is making a serious effort to modernize, so as not to be left in the sand by its Gulf Arab neighbors. The holy men have been shoved to the background and the nation is now still dictatorial but somewhat rational. That doesn't make them trustworthy, but it's a start...
in 2024, and made a trip to Melbourne, Australia in 2019, the sources said.

The pair admitted to cops after getting busted at the violent mostly peaceful demonstration outside the mayor’s residence on Saturday afternoon that they also watched ISIS videos and tossed the bomb at right-wing agitators because they felt the agitators insulted their religion, the sources said.
One wonders if they’ve also partaken of the anti-Israel protests — how connected are these lone wolves, and to whom?
The homemade device consisted of sports drink bottles filled with triacetone triperoxide, or TATP, a substance favored by bully boyz and known as "Mother of Satan" — which is so volatile that it typically doesn’t require a fuse to go off, they said.
Did they learn from the old Al Qaeda Inspire magazine article “How to make a bomb in the kitchen of your mother”, or get trained more personlly while travelling abroad?
The dangerous substance can be cobbled together using household ingredients readily available at home improvement stores and pharmacies, making it cheap to produce.

"It’s designed to maim and kill," one source told The Post. "This is just luck no one is dead."

The same type of bomb was used in high-profile terror attacks in La Belle France, the UK, Belgium and New Delhi over more than a decade — often with fatal consequences.

Fortunately, it failed to go off during the Saturday afternoon clash between demonstrators backing right-wing activist Jake Lang and pro-Moslem counter-protesters.

The incident unfolded during a planned anti-Moslem protest organized by right-wing agitator Jake Lang outside Gracie Mansion — which sparked a rowdy confrontation with counter protesters that quickly turned violent mostly peaceful.

Video footage shows several scuffles that led to six arrests — including the two accused wannabe bombers.

One of Lang’s crew, a protester named Ian McGinnis, was accused of pepper spraying counter protesters and slapped with charges of assault, reckless endangerment and unlawful possession of noxious matter, according to sources.

The bomb — a sports drink bottle filled with TATP and wrapped in construction tape — was hurled at Lang’s crew during one of the encounters, police and sources said.

Police secured the device and ended the threat.

On Sunday, NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch dismissed earlier reports that the device was not dangerous and said it would have killed or maimed anyone near it had it went kaboom!.

"The NYPD Bomb Squad has conducted a preliminary analysis of a device that was ignited at a protest yesterday and has determined that it is not a hoax device or smoke bomb, Tisch wrote on X.

"It is, in fact, an improvised bomb that could have caused serious injury or death," she said."I want to again thank the brave members of the NYPD, who ran towards danger without hesitation and quickly apprehended the suspects."

Meanwhile,
...back at the Senate, Tremulus continued with his speech against Varius and his cohorts, watching as his colleagues dropped off to sleep one by one...
Mayor Zohran Mamdani denounced "white supremacist" Lang in another statement Sunday.

Mamdani said "hate has no place in New York City" — but failed to mention that the alleged bomb-hurlers were part of the pro-Moslem crowd of counter-protestors.

The NYPD and the FBI are now working the case, with search warrants being executed at the Pennsylvania homes of Kayumi and Balat on Sunday, the sources said.

Meanwhile,
...back at the Senate, Tremulus continued with his speech against Varius and his cohorts, watching as his colleagues dropped off to sleep one by one...
the NYPD Bomb Squad was back at the scene on Sunday afternoon after a bottle wrapped in tape was spotted inside the Hyundai linked to one of the suspects.

The vehicle was cleared without further incident.

Both suspects are due to be turned over to the feds, with the bomb expected to undergo further testing at FBI headquarters in Quantico, Virginia, the sources said.
Courtesy of Skidmark, Fox News adds
Retired NYPD inspector Fox News contributor Paul Mauro also noted that a vehicle registered to a relative of one of the suspects was located in the Upper East Side area.
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