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I Looked Into Why Terrorists Are Being Let Into Our Country. It’s Worse Than You Think.

I Looked Into Why Terrorists Are Being Let Into Our Country. It's Worse Than You Think.

ISIS

Matt Walsh

Murder

Old Dominion University

Opinion

Radical Islamic Terror

ROTC

Virginia

The Department of Justice charged the man accused of selling a firearm to the Old Dominion University shooter, who had already been convicted of supporting terrorism.
Feds charged Kenya Chapman Friday for allegedly carrying out the sale to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/old-dominion-university-gunman-identified-as-ex-national-guardsman-turned-isis-operative?author=Jennie+Taer&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=2&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Old+Dominion+University+Gunman+Identified+As+Ex-National+Guardsman+Turned+ISIS+Operative">Mohamed Bailor Jalloh</a>, a former National Guard soldier who was previously convicted of supporting ISIS, but released early in 2024 after completing a drug program, <a href="https://apnews.com/article/old-dominion-university-shooting-rotc-3e9049d15354b33bba37035a98a5299f" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the Associated Press.
Jalloh, 36, killed an ROTC professor, who was a decorated war hero, during the Thursday attack. Two other service members were injured before heroic students intervened to subdue him.
Chapman told authorities that he had no idea Jalloh planned to carry out the attack, the news outlet reported. He faces charges for making a false statement during a firearm purchase and engaging in the business of firearms dealing without a license.
Chapman said he stole the gun from a car in Newport News, Virginia, about a year ago, before he recently sold it to Jalloh, the Associated Press reported. After the pair met at work, Jalloh told Chapman he needed a gun for protection as a delivery driver. Chapman said he knew Jalloh was previously incarcerated, but claimed he didn&#8217;t know of his past felony conviction.
It&#8217;s not the first time Chapman has been the subject of a federal investigation, according to the Associated Press. In 2021, federal authorities issued Chapman a &#8220;straw purchaser warning letter.&#8221;
Chapman later sent an apology letter admitting to selling guns to buyers who intended to give the firearms to people who can&#8217;t legally purchase them, per the AP.
The serial number on the gun Jalloh allegedly used Thursday was partially destroyed. Authorities combed through phone records, finding that Chapman and Jalloh had multiple calls in the week before the shooting.
For his terrorism case, Jalloh was sentenced to 11 years behind bars and an additional five years of supervised release. He was released early in 2024 for completing a drug program, <a href="https://apnews.com/article/jalloh-old-dominion-university-shooting-islamic-state-b257727b0167982fbffafae2eb8548fd" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the AP.
He was convicted after traveling to Africa with his father in 2015, where he met with an ISIS recruiter, according to NBC4. He later went to Sierra Leone to stay with the group’s facilitator and made plans to visit Libya to join the terrorist organization, but that never happened.
He also went to Niger to join ISIS and even boarded a truck full of other terror recruits, but bailed out after 18 hours, according to NBC4.
At one point, he sent $500 to a man he believed was an ISIS member, who was actually an undercover FBI agent.
In October 2016, Jalloh pleaded guilty to attempting to provide material support to ISIS.
Jalloh, who is a naturalized American citizen from Sierra Leone, stormed the ROTC classroom Thursday, shooting the professor several times, according to the New York Post.
The instructor died at the hospital, according to the news outlet.
&#8220;A group of brave students &#8230; stepped in and subdued&#8221; Jalloh, FBI Director Kash Patel said Thursday.
“The FBI is now investigating the shooting as an act of terrorism. Our Joint Terrorism Task Force is fully engaged, embedded with local authorities, and providing all resources necessary in the investigation,” Patel said.
The attack happened hours before a man rammed a vehicle into a Michigan synagogue and opened fire on the building before meeting his demise.

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Feds Nab Man Accused Of Arming Old Dominion Terrorist

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“You’re worried about Islamic terrorism? That is a false flag or an op.”
If you believe the people who tell you this, you are the sucker.
And if America ignores the very real problem of radical Islam, and you happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, you&#8217;ll end up dead. 
That is the message across America for the last couple of weeks, and it&#8217;s coming in loud and clear.
Yesterday alone, there were two Islamic terror attacks. The first happened at Old Dominion in Virginia, when ISIS-linked Mohamed Bailor Jalloh, 26, stormed a classroom and demanded to know if it was an ROTC class. He then shouted — wait for it — “Allahu akbar!”
I know: you&#8217;re shocked.
He shot and killed the professor, Army Lt. Col. Brandon A. Shah, a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Operation Enduring Freedom, and Atlantic Resolve, before a group of heroic cadets jumped into action and stabbed Jalloh to death.
So who was the terrorist? According to the New York Post, he was a naturalized citizen from Sierra Leone and a former Virginia National Guard member.
Were there any red flags? Just a few.
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Fox News reports that Jalloh was forced to leave the military after he tried to provide material support to ISIS. He was a follower of Anwar al Awlaki, the now-dead leader of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.
The DOJ prosecution documents show Jalloh praised a July 2015 terror attack in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in which a radical Islamist killed four Marines and a Navy sailor. He was actually arrested in 2016 after attempting to buy an assault rifle in Northern Virginia and then sentenced to 11 years in prison. Then he was released just 15 months ago for good behavior.
Good behavior.
So we released an actual, honest-to-God, ISIS-affiliated terrorist into the population for “good behavior.” Did he drop his terror support somehow? If so, what was the evidence that he had? Why did America owe him a free run of the country after he decided to side with an actual, honest-to-God terrorist group?
It should be noted that Jalloh received the victim treatment from leftists in the media. In 2016, The Intercept, a far-left publication, printed a sympathetic piece quoting his family, who said he was set up by the FBI. His brother told The Intercept that Jalloh was just another “Mohammad” who got set up.
The problem, you see, was really Islamophobia. Never radical Islam, just Islamophobia.
So was that attack at Old Dominion the only radical Islamic terror attack of the day? Of course not. Halfway across the country, at one of the biggest Reform Jewish synagogues in America, a radical Muslim suspect named Ayman Mohamed Ghazali, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Lebanon who received a visa as the spouse of a U.S. citizen and was naturalized under the Obama administration, tried to drive an explosive-laden car into the entrance of a preschool with 140 students in attendance. 
According to the New York Post, “He barreled down the hallway before security opened fire, killing the suspect.” That attack started a fire in the building. The driver was killed while he was in the car. Police found in the car a rifle and mortar shells.
The suspect allegedly came from Dearborn Heights, Michigan. The synagogue was located 20 miles north of Dearborn, an Islam-dominated city represented in Congress by radical Islamic terror apologist Rashida Tlaib.
How radicalized is Dearborn? In recent days, some Dearborn mosques have been praising Ayatollah Khamenei. In 2025, the city decided to honor terror-supporting activist Osama Siblani with a street sign. Siblani is a radical Muslim who openly speaks of his pride in terror leaders like deceased Hezbollah head Hassan Nasrallah, whom he called a great leader, saying he was “proud” of him. He also advocated for Hezbollah to make Israel “taste the Lebanon poison.”
When a resident of Dearborn showed up at a city council meeting to protest naming a street after this radical Islamist, the mayor of Dearborn told him to get out of the city and then called him — wait for it — wait for it — wait for it — an Islamophobe.
Unsurprisingly, there were some people in the media who found excuses for the terror attack at the synagogue. Over on GB News, one commentator explained that this was an “Israeli temple” and thus presumably deserving of its fate. The argument here seems to be that if you are a pro-Israel Jew in the United States, then it&#8217;s totally fine for a terrorist to drive a car laden with explosives into your synagogue.
Ryan Grim, formerly of The Intercept, reported that the terrorist had family members recently killed by Israel and its current action against Hezbollah in Lebanon. Even if that&#8217;s true, it makes for a rather strange defense of these terrorist actions. The mass murder of 1,200 Jews on October 7 in Israel has caused precisely zero Jews, zero, to drive an explosives-laden car into a mosque or near a Muslim school.
There&#8217;s just something about radical Islam that isn&#8217;t quite the same.
Of course, as we have been following, the two attacks yesterday were not the first attacks of the last few weeks. Last week, we reported on a radical Islamic terror attack in Austin, Texas, in which a 53-year-old Senegalese immigrant to the United States killed three people and wounded 13 more. He happened to be wearing a sweatshirt that read —wait for it, wait for it — “Property of Allah.”
I know, you&#8217;re shocked.
Over the last weekend, we saw two ISIS-affiliated radical Muslims throw IEDs at a rally outside Gracie Mansion, all of which led the mayor of New York to spend extraordinary efforts condemning — wait for it, wait for it, you&#8217;re not going to believe it — Islamophobia.
How does this radical ideology spread in America?
The answer is twofold. First, we import people who are sympathetic to terrorism, and then addle-pated Americans argue that they ought to be mainstreamed.
That&#8217;s how you end up with Zohran Mamdani — yes, he is a terrorist supporter — as mayor of New York. It&#8217;s how Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar end up in Congress.
What should we do about it? First, we can stop future immigration from radical Islamic countries and other third-world areas where we can&#8217;t vet our immigrants at the source. You cannot import problems from other parts of the world, require zero assimilation, and then pretend that the big issue is “Islamophobia.”
Unfortunately, there are people dedicated to forcing our border wide open.
Secondly, we ought to enforce the law to revoke the citizenship of people who associate with terrorist groups or who favor totalitarian forms of government. That is, in fact, the law under title VIII, U.S. code, section 1484.
If enforced properly, this would mean revocation of citizenship for a wide variety of radical Islamists living in the United States right now. This law is difficult to enforce; it requires a high degree of evidentiary demonstration. But that degree ought to be met when you affiliate with an actual terrorist group, and if it is not, then the law itself ought to be changed to allow for revocation of such citizenship.
It is not our duty to people who seek to destroy America in the name of radical Islam.
Until the law is either enforced to the letter or changed, we have an enormous number of people in the United States who are devotees of radical Islam. What&#8217;s more, we&#8217;ve been told by one entire political party that mentioning this inconvenient fact is tantamount to Islamophobia.
Have Americans seen enough?

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The Deadly Cost Of Denial

Ben Shapiro

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On Thursday, Mohamed Bailor Jalloh — an ex-National Guard soldier previously convicted of terrorism charges — opened fire at Old Dominion University, killing a decorated service member.
Jalloh, originally from Sierra Leone, is the latest naturalized American citizen to commit a violent attack in the United States. There have been at least three attacks carried out by naturalized citizens in the last two weeks, leading many to call for a change to the naturalization process that allows these attackers into the country.
It&#8217;s not that simple.
&#8220;If a naturalized U.S. citizen commits a heinous act of terrorism, that&#8217;s not a way to take away somebody&#8217;s [citizenship],&#8221; immigration attorney Matthew Kolken told The Daily Wire. &#8220;They&#8217;ve done everything right from an immigration standpoint.&#8221;
&#8220;The law does not allow you to just take away someone&#8217;s citizenship. They can be convicted of a crime and go to jail for the rest of their life, but they&#8217;ll die a United States citizen,&#8221; Kolken said.
Jalloh, for instance, was sentenced to 11 years in prison with another five years of supervised release in his terrorism case and was let out early in December 2024, according to the New York Post.
If the feds wanted to denaturalize Jalloh, they would&#8217;ve had to have found evidence of &#8220;fraud&#8221; tied to his immigration case.
&#8220;We&#8217;re not talking about a crime, we&#8217;re talking about an immigration law violation,&#8221; Kolken said.
&#8220;Even though you want to the United States wants to denaturalize somebody because they engaged in an act of terrorism and murdered people in this country, the way that you would effectuate a denaturalization is if you discover a fraud that was not disclosed in furtherance of their immigration journey,&#8221; Kolken said.
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After the SAVE America Act, we must pass the SCAM Act so we can denaturalize &amp; deport those who are here to hurt Americans.
We must denaturalize those who shouldn&#8217;t be here.
Will is exactly right. <a href="https://t.co/z31zdDvzMZ">https://t.co/z31zdDvzMZ</a> <a href="https://t.co/QPN58EoJRX">pic.twitter.com/QPN58EoJRX</a>
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In addition to committing immigration fraud, an individual can become denaturalized if they join the Communist Party or another &#8220;subversive organization&#8221; within five years of gaining citizenship, George Fishman, senior fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, said.
But Fishman warned that denaturalization is &#8220;tough,&#8221; adding that in Jalloh&#8217;s case, &#8220;unless the government can come up with evidence that he lied, he concealed a material fact during his naturalization, I&#8217;m not sure there&#8217;s really a viable way forward.&#8221;
Naturalized citizens can also lose their citizenship if they are discharged from the military &#8220;under other than honorable conditions&#8221; after obtaining citizenship based on their military service, according to the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services. They must have been discharged before having served honorably for &#8220;at least five years.&#8221;
The federal government naturalized 818,500 new citizens in fiscal year 2024, which ran between October 2023 and September 2024, according to federal data.
With the mountain of cases, it may be difficult to go back and audit those who&#8217;ve already been naturalized, Fishman said, adding that the federal government should &#8220;be much more deliberative in deciding whether to naturalize someone in the first place.&#8221;
For any future cases, Congress &#8220;could &#8230; toughen the standards for naturalization,&#8221; Fishman said.
Missouri Senator Eric Schmitt (R) has introduced legislation to make it easier for the United States to denaturalize immigrants who pose a national security threat.
His proposed legislation, the Stop Citizenship Abuse and Misrepresentation (SCAM) Act, seeks to denaturalize those who commit welfare fraud, aggravated felonies, and espionage. It also applies to individuals with ties to drug cartels or foreign terrorist groups.
&#8220;We must denaturalize those who shouldn&#8217;t be here,&#8221; Schmitt said on X Thursday.

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A bomb threat affecting two libraries at the University of Virginia was cleared after a three-hour police investigation on Friday. The threat came just one day after an ISIS-supporting terrorist shot three people, killing one, across the state at Old Dominion University.
University of Virginia police <a href="https://x.com/UVAPolice/status/2032469083707342863">told</a> people to &#8220;avoid the area&#8221; at Shannon Library on the Charlottesville campus just before 10:50 a.m. over reports of a bomb threat. The university&#8217;s Department of Safety and Security later <a href="https://x.com/UVASafety/status/2032471777801043981">added</a> that authorities were &#8220;investigating evacuating both Clemmons and Shannon Libraries.&#8221; The libraries are across the street from each other.
University authorities <a href="https://x.com/UVASafety/status/2032512601624568026">said</a> at 1:42 p.m. ET that the threat was &#8220;cleared&#8221; and &#8220;no device&#8221; was found on campus.
&#8220;Shannon and Clemons Libraries are returning to normal operations. You may resume normal activity. No further updates,&#8221; the Department of Safety and Security said.
The bomb scare added to heightened fears in the United States following a suspected terrorist attack in New York City last week, where two men are accused of attempting to throw homemade bombs into a crowd of people and police officers outside Gracie Mansion.
On Thursday, terrorist Mohamed Bailor Jalloh, who was previously convicted of supporting ISIS, killed one person and wounded two more were wounded when he opened fire in an ROTC classroom at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. Norfolk is around 170 miles southeast of Charlottesville.
Lieutenant Colonel Brandon Shah, a decorated military here who was teaching the class, was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/decorated-military-hero-idd-as-victim-of-old-dominion-terrorist-attack?author=Jennie+Taer&amp;category=undefined&amp;elementPosition=10&amp;row=3&amp;rowHeadline=Latest+News&amp;rowType=Vertical+Carousel&amp;title=Decorated+Military+Hero+ID%E2%80%99d+As+Victim+Of+Old+Dominion+Terrorist+Attack">killed</a> after Jalloh shot him multiple times. The terrorist was killed by “a group of brave students who stepped in and subdued him,” according to FBI Director Kash Patel.
Shortly after the terrorist attack at Old Dominion, a man rammed his vehicle into a synagogue in West Bloomfield, Michigan, and opened fire. The attacker, Ayman Ghazali, was killed by security personnel in a shootout after ramming his vehicle, which was reportedly full of explosives, into Temple Israel, the largest Jewish Reform synagogue in the United States. One security guard was wounded in the attack, but no one else in the synagogue, which also houses a preschool, was injured.

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Bomb Threat Cleared At University Of Virginia Day After Old Dominion Terrorist Attack

Bomb Threat Forces Evacuations At University Of Virginia Day After Old Dominion Terrorist Attack

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The gunman who opened fire at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, on Thursday has been identified as Mohamed Bailor Jalloh, a former National Guard soldier who was previously convicted of supporting ISIS, according to multiple reports.
Jalloh, 36, discussed plans to carry out a Fort Hood-style attack with a government informant he believed was an ISIS terrorist, <a href="https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/ex-national-guard-member-from-virginia-sentenced-to-11-years-for-terrorism-after-supporting-isis/35484/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to NBC4 Washington. Jalloh was sentenced to 11 years behind bars and an additional five years of supervised release.
He was let out early in December 2024, <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/03/12/us-news/old-dominion-university-gunman-idd-as-former-national-guardsman-convicted-of-plotting-attack-to-support-islamic-state/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the New York Post.
Jalloh traveled to Africa with his father in 2015, where he met with an ISIS recruiter, according to NBC4. That same year, he went to Sierra Leone to stay with the group&#8217;s facilitator and planned to go to Libya to join the terrorist organization, but that never happened.
At one point, he ventured to Niger to join ISIS and even boarded a truck full of other terror recruits, but bailed out after 18 hours, according to NBC4.
Jalloh praised the gunman who killed five soldiers in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in July 2015, to the informant, <a href="https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/former-army-national-guard-member-arrested-attempting-provide-material-support-isil" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the Department of Justice. He also sent $500 to a man he believed was an ISIS member, who was actually an undercover FBI agent.
He pleaded guilty in October 2015 to attempting to provide material support to ISIS.
Jalloh, who is a naturalized American citizen from Sierra Leone, stormed into a classroom on Thursday and asked if it was an ROTC course, according to the New York Post. When someone confirmed that it was, he opened fire, shooting the professor several times.
The professor, a retired military officer, died at the hospital, according to the news outlet. One of the students heroically stabbed Jalloh to death to stop him from harming others.
FBI Director Kash Patel confirmed on X that one person is dead and two others were wounded in the shooting.
The shooter, he <a href="https://x.com/FBIDirectorKash/status/2032183663350214858">said</a>, &#8220;is now deceased thanks to a group of brave students who stepped in and subdued him – actions that undoubtedly saved lives along with the quick response of law enforcement.&#8221;
&#8220;The FBI is now investigating the shooting as an act of terrorism. Our Joint Terrorism Task Force is fully engaged, embedded with local authorities, and providing all resources necessary in the investigation,&#8221; Patel said.
Secretary of the Army Dan Driscoll <a href="https://x.com/SecArmy/status/2032170679404024043" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> the injured victims were &#8220;Army personnel.&#8221;
The shooting occurred hours before an attacker rammed a vehicle into a Michigan synagogue and opened fire on the building.

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A heated debate over public schools in the South Carolina House of Representatives took a dramatic turn this week when a Democratic lawmaker referred to the parental advocacy group Moms for Liberty as a “terrorist group” during remarks on the House floor.
The comment came from Gilda Cobb-Hunter, a longtime Democratic representative from Orangeburg, during a broader debate about the state’s public school system and education policy. “We as a state are running headfirst, headlong, into a public school crisis,” Cobb-Hunter said during her floor speech, criticizing the direction of education policy in South Carolina.
As she urged lawmakers to listen to teachers and parents in struggling public schools, Cobb-Hunter mocked references to parental activist groups supporting school choice.
“I heard a reference up here about some PTA or some — Moms for Liberty? Please,” she said. “They are a terrorist group.” The remark immediately prompted a point of order from another lawmaker calling for decorum on the House floor.
But Cobb-Hunter did not walk back the comment when given the opportunity to respond.
“Mr. Speaker, I would suggest to you that what I just said has been widely used in publications, it has been widely used in a whole lot of arenas,” Cobb-Hunter said in response. “Quite frankly, I would caution us to be very careful using the whole decorum language when some of us get up here and do some things that quite frankly I think beg the question of do we even know what decorum means.”
The exchange quickly drew attention because of the growing national profile of <a href="https://www.momsforliberty.org/about/">Moms for Liberty</a>, a grassroots organization founded in 2021 that advocates for parental rights in education. The group, which now claims hundreds of local chapters across the United States, rose to prominence during debates over COVID-era school closures, mask mandates, and curriculum issues such as gender ideology and race-related instruction in classrooms.
Supporters describe the organization as a parents’ rights movement focused on increasing transparency in schools and expanding educational choice.
Critics on the left have frequently accused the group of promoting book bans or targeting LGBTQ-related materials in school libraries. Some left-wing activists and media outlets have gone as far as to <a href="https://www.npr.org/2023/06/07/1180486760/splc-moms-for-liberty-extremist-group">label the organization</a> as extremist, a characterization its leaders <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2023/06/07/moms-for-liberty-co-founder-rejects-splc-extremist-label/70298360007/">strongly reject</a>.
Moms for Liberty activists have been especially active in school board elections and education policy fights in states across the country, often supporting school choice measures and policies aimed at limiting certain curriculum topics.
The group has also drawn sharp criticism from Democrats and teachers’ unions who argue its activism has intensified political battles over education.
Cobb-Hunter’s remarks came during debate over legislation tied to school choice and education funding, issues that have become increasingly contentious in South Carolina as Republican lawmakers push for policies that would expand alternatives to traditional public schools.
The exchange is likely to further inflame the ongoing political fight over education policy in the state, where debates over school choice, curriculum, and parental rights have increasingly divided lawmakers along partisan lines.
The Daily Wire reached out to Cobb-Hunter’s office to ask whether she stands by the characterization of Moms for Liberty as a “terrorist group,” but did not receive a response by publication time.

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Democrat Places ‘Moms For Liberty’ In Same Terror Category As ISIS

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If you’re looking for a case study in how the mainstream media constructs a narrative out of thin air to protect their preferred ideological allies, look no further than CNN’s recent coverage of an attempted IED attack in New York City.
On Tuesday night, Abby Phillip and Ana Navarro didn&#8217;t just report the news; they performed a masterclass in obfuscation, deliberately mischaracterizing a terrorist act to frame it as a story of Muslim victimhood.
The facts, which CNN seemingly finds inconvenient, are these: two Pennsylvania teenagers, who reportedly pledged allegiance to ISIS, traveled to New York to detonate homemade bombs. Their target wasn&#8217;t a person, but a crowd of protesters. Yet, in the hands of Abby Phillip, this became an &#8220;attempted terror attack against New York’s Mayor Zohran Mamdani.&#8221;
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BREAKING: Abby Phillips says the IED attack was an “attempted terror attack against NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani.”
The suspects yelled “Allahu Akbar” and pledged allegiance to ISIS.
CNN deleted a tweet and issued a retraction this morning. They never learn. <a href="https://t.co/AvsQCUnhP5">pic.twitter.com/AvsQCUnhP5</a>
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By framing the attack as one directed at Mamdani — who identifies as Muslim — Phillip and Navarro attempted to pivot the conversation away from radical Islamic terrorism and toward their favorite hobby horse: Republican &#8220;bigotry.&#8221; Phillip used the false premise of an attack on Mamdani to grill guests about comments made by GOP Congressmen Andy Ogles and Randy Fine, effectively using a near-tragedy caused by ISIS sympathizers to scold Republicans for being mean.
Ana Navarro, never one to let a factual error get in the way of a partisan jab, doubled down on the lie. After she declared, “What I find ironic is, so supposedly some of these comments are as a result of the attempt against Mayor Mamdani in New York,” Republican Joe Borelli correctly pointed out that the attackers were targeting protesters, not Mamdani.
Navarro stubbornly insisted, &#8220;It was at his house,&#8221; as if proximity to a building constitutes a targeted assassination attempt. The goal was transparent: if they could convince the audience that Mamdani was the target, they could claim that any criticism of radicalism is actually an incitement to violence against Muslim officials.
Phillip offered an apology on Wednesday morning:
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I want to correct something I said last night. The bombs thrown in New York City over the weekend by ISIS inspired attackers was thrown into a crowd of anti-Muslim protestors and not specifically targeted at Mayor Mamdani. That wording was inaccurate and I didn’t catch it ahead…
&mdash; Abby D. Phillip (@abbydphillip) <a href="https://twitter.com/abbydphillip/status/2031708815469486172?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 11, 2026</a></blockquote>
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This gaslighting followed a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/see-it-cnn-quietly-deletes-tone-deaf-take-on-suspected-isis-terrorists?author=Virginia+Kruta&amp;category=undefined&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=3&amp;rowHeadline=Latest+News&amp;rowType=Vertical+Carousel&amp;title=SEE+IT%3A+CNN+Quietly+Deletes+Tone-Deaf+Take+On+Suspected+ISIS+Terrorists&amp;utm_source=chatgpt.com">humiliating retreat</a> by CNN earlier that day. The network had deleted a tweet that described the terrorists as &#8220;Pennsylvania teenagers&#8221; whose &#8220;lives would drastically change&#8221; after a &#8220;normal day&#8221; ended in arrests for throwing bombs. It was a pathetic attempt to infantilize ISIS-pledging terrorists, portraying them as wayward youths who stumbled into a felony.
Phillip and Navarro’s performance was a cynical attempt to gain sympathy for Mamdani by painting him as a target of the very radicalism the media spent all morning trying to downplay. It is a perfect circle of media dishonesty: first, humanize the terrorists; then, when that fails, lie about the target to cast your political opponents as the real villains.

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CNN Hit With One-Two Punch In Single Day Over ISIS Bomb Plot Coverage

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New York City

Zohran Mamdani

A New York City Police Department police chief who stopped a pair of ISIS-inspired men accused of trying to detonate a homemade bomb over the weekend credited his police instincts for inspiring his split-second reaction to the attempted terror attack.  
“When you see danger, you have that cop in you,” Chief Aaron Edwards <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/03/10/us-news/hero-nypd-chief-who-chased-down-bomb-suspects-breaks-silence-once-a-cop-always-a-cop/">told</a> the New York Post. “You react to it.”
On Saturday, Edwards helped detain 18-year-old Emir Balat and 19-year-old Ibrahim Kayumi after they allegedly attempted to set off multiple improvised explosive devices outside of Gracie Mansion, New York City’s official mayoral residence. Both men have been <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/everything-we-know-about-the-suspected-nyc-terrorists">charged federally</a> with terrorism and are believed to have been inspired by ISIS.
Edwards, 46, saw a device being lit on Saturday and said the only thing that went through his mind was stopping the threat. 
“Three things gotta happen right now — we’ve got to catch this person, we’ve got to get people away from this device, and we’ve got to secure this area,” he told The New York Post. “And we were able to do that.”
A photo of Edwards leaping over a fence to chase after Balat quickly went viral and was shared online by the New York City Police Department. 
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Leading up to that moment, Edwards said he was on patrol when a fellow officer tapped him on the shoulder and asked what Balat and Kayumi were doing. 
“And you know, we needed to just start running towards them. We’re giving commands, we’re making verbal commands,” he said. “We start running towards them and, you know, the rest you can see on video.”
“I don’t mind doing the work, get my hands dirty,” Edwards added. “So when this happens — and it happens rather quickly — it wasn’t a thought in my mind on the danger.”
While he was praised for quick action, Edwards said his wife had a different reaction to the viral photo of him jumping toward danger. 
“She has a screenshot of it, she has it circled. She puts it in caps — in big caps: ‘WRONG DIRECTION SIR,&#8217;” he said. 
Edwards was inspired to become a police officer in the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks. He said he was ready to respond to danger at all times. 
“I always say, we’re all cops, right?” Edwards told the New York Post. “Regardless of rank, regardless of life, regardless of position, you’re a cop first. Once a cop, always a cop.&#8221;

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Hero NYPD Chief Seen Chasing ISIS Terror Suspects Relives His Split-Second Decision

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A protest outside of Gracie Mansion in Manhattan on Saturday turned violent when two men lit two improvised explosive devices near a crowd that had gathered outside of Mayor Zohran Mamdani&#8217;s residence. Neither of the explosives detonated, and no one was injured in the attack, which authorities are investigating as &#8220;ISIS-inspired terrorism.&#8221;
The story in New York could have been much different, however.
The devices used by the suspects during the weekend attack contained triacetone triperoxide, or TATP, an explosive nicknamed the &#8220;Mother of Satan&#8221; that terrorists have used to kill hundreds of people since 2005. TATP is especially dangerous because its materials are inexpensive and easy to access.
The U.S. government <a href="https://www.dni.gov/files/NCTC/documents/jcat/firstresponderstoolbox/78--NCTC-DHS-FBI---Triacetone-Triperoxide-(TATP)-.pdf">warns</a> that even small amounts of TATP can cause major damage if detonated, and the explosive can also be packed with shrapnel — such as nuts, bolts, and screws — to increase its lethality. The devices used by two suspects in New York City over the weekend were packed with such shrapnel.
One of the suspects threw an explosive near the crowd of protesters and the other suspect dropped another device near police officers. The suspects, 19-year-old Ibrahim Kayumi and 18-year-old Emir Balat, were quickly apprehended by authorities. The New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/03/09/us-news/shackled-terrorist-defiantly-flashes-isis-salute-after-hes-busted-for-tossing-explosive-device-near-gracie-mansion/">reported</a> that one of the suspects said &#8220;Allahu Akbar&#8221; after he was questioned by investigators.
While the attack in Manhattan on Saturday has not yet been confirmed to be an ISIS attempt to kill Americans, TATP has been a primary weapon for the terrorist group for years. Since 2005, nearly 500 people throughout the world have been killed by terrorists who used the &#8220;Mother of Satan&#8221; in their attacks. Most of the terrorists who have used TATP to carry out mass killings in the past were either inspired by or part of ISIS.
<h3>2019: Sri Lanka Easter Bombings</h3>
On Easter Sunday in April 2019, ISIS terrorists used the &#8220;Mother of Satan&#8221; in bombings that targeted Christians who were worshipping in churches and at hotels throughout the small country. More than 250 people were killed in the coordinated attacks. The TATP bombs were worn by suicide bombers who pulled a strap to detonate their vests.
<h3>2017: Ariana Grande Concert Bombing</h3>
A lone suicide bomber detonated either a vest or a backpack with TATP and shrapnel at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, England, on May 22, 2017, killing 22, including 10 people under the age of 20. The terrorist reportedly made the bomb by himself. Authorities <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/jun/09/manchester-arena-bomb-designed-kill-largest-number-innocents">determined</a> that the blast was able to kill people more than 60 feet away and was &#8220;designed to kill and maim indiscriminately the largest number of innocent people.&#8221;
<h3>2016: Brussels Airport and Train Bombings</h3>
Three ISIS suicide bombers detonated &#8220;Mother of Satan&#8221; bombs at the Brussels airport and on board a train leaving a metro station in a coordinated attack on March 22, 2016. The terrorists killed 32 people and wounded nearly 350 more. Two more attackers had planned to detonate another bomb at the airport and another at the metro station, but they fled the scenes of the bombings before carrying out their part of the attack.
<h3>2015: Paris Terrorist Attack</h3>
TATP explosives were part of the arsenal for ISIS fighters who carried out the deadliest terror attack in France&#8217;s history on November 13, 2015. Terrorists killed 130 people in six different locations throughout Paris in their attack, using semi-automatic rifles and suicide belts loaded with the &#8220;Mother of Satan.&#8221;
<h3>2005: London Bombings</h3>
Radical Muslim terrorists inspired by al-Qaeda killed more than 50 people and wounded nearly 800 in one of England&#8217;s deadliest terror attacks. Investigators believe the terrorists primarily used TATP bombs for their attack on London underground trains and a double decker bus.
As investigators continue to look into the two New York City attackers who attempted to detonate explosives over the weekend, more information about the suspects is coming to light. The two men reportedly have connections to the Middle East, but as of Monday afternoon, authorities have not tied them to any terror group. Kayumi and Balat recently spent time in Turkey, and Kayumi also flew to Saudi Arabia in 2024, the New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/03/08/us-news/self-radicalized-isis-supporters-used-explosive-called-mother-of-satan-inside-bombs-thrown-at-gracie-mansion-protest-sources/">reported</a>.
It remains unclear if the two suspects were taught how to make the &#8220;Mother of Satan&#8221; bombs or if anyone else knew about their attack. Kayumi and Balat reportedly told investigators that they had watched ISIS videos and targeted right-wingers who were protesting outside of Gracie Mansion because they believed the protesters disrespected their religion. The protest, which was organized by far-right activist Jake Lang, focused on denouncing the so-called Muslim takeover of New York City.
In a social media post on Sunday, Mamdani condemned the protest, which he said was &#8220;rooted in bigotry and racism&#8221; before he added, &#8220;What followed was even more disturbing. Violence at a protest is never acceptable. The attempt to use an explosive device and hurt others is not only criminal, it is reprehensible and the antithesis of who we are.&#8221;

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Terrorists Have Killed Hundreds With ‘Mother Of Satan’ Bomb Used In NYC Attack

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WASHINGTON—The Department of Justice has charged two &#8220;alleged ISIS-inspired terrorists&#8221; who authorities say attempted to bomb a New York City protest, Attorney General Pam Bondi announced on Monday.
Defendants Emir Balat, 18, and Ibrahim Kayumi, 19, are charged with five counts, including knowingly attempting to provide &#8220;material support or resources&#8221; to ISIS, a foreign terrorist organization; use of a weapon of mass destruction (an explosive device); transportation of explosive materials, interstate transportation and receipt of explosives &#8220;with the knowledge and intent that it would be used to kill, injure, and intimidate;&#8221; and unlawful possession of destructive devices.
&#8220;We will not allow ISIS’s poisonous, anti-American ideology to threaten this nation,&#8221; Bondi said in a statement on Monday. &#8220;Our law enforcement officers will remain vigilant.&#8221;
The two alleged terrorists are accused of attempting to detonate explosive devices near Gracie Mansion in Manhattan during a protest in the area, according to the unsealed DOJ complaint. Gracie Mansion is the official residence of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani. The protest was &#8220;Stop the Islamic Takeover of New York City, Stop New York City Public Muslim Prayer,&#8221; and there was also a counterprotest called &#8220;Run Nazis Out of New York City.&#8221;
&#8220;Preliminary results of testing of one of the devices indicates that it contained a quantity of triacetone triperoxide (TATP), a highly volatile explosive material used in multiple terrorist attacks over the last decade,&#8221; the complaint states.
After the New York City Police Department arrested them, both Balat and Kayumi made statements &#8220;referring to ISIS,&#8221; authorities said.
<div id="attachment_1056151" style="width: 874px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/doj-charges-two-isis-inspired-terrorists-who-attempted-to-bomb-nyc-protest/us-politics-new-york" rel="attachment wp-att-1056151"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1056151" class="wp-image-1056151 size-large" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/03/GettyImages-2265146814-864x576.jpg" alt="" width="864" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/03/GettyImages-2265146814-864x576.jpg 864w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/03/GettyImages-2265146814-300x200.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/03/GettyImages-2265146814-768x512.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/03/GettyImages-2265146814.jpg 1024w" sizes=" (max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px" /></a>New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani speaks alongside New York City Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch (L) during a news conference at Gracie Mansion in New York City on March 9, 2026. (Photo by Leonardo MUNOZ / AFP via Getty Images)</div>
&#8220;For example,&#8221; the complaint says, &#8220;as Kayumi was being placed inside an NYPD vehicle to be transported, an individual from the surrounding crowd yelled to Kayumi and asked, in substance and in part, why he had done this. Kayumi responded, in part and as captured on NYPD body-worn camera footage, &#8216;ISIS.'&#8221;
Both Balat and Kayumi also discussed ISIS in recorded post-arrest statements that they made after they received their Miranda rights, the complaint says. Balat wrote on a piece of paper that he had &#8220;pledged allegiance to the Islamic State,&#8221; and Kayumi said that he was affiliated with ISIS, watched ISIS propaganda on his phone, and was partly inspired to &#8220;carry out his actions that day by ISIS.&#8221;
Balat also said they wanted to carry out an even bigger attack than the Boston Marathon, which he said caused only &#8220;three deaths.&#8221;
Around 12:15 pm on Sunday, Balat ignited and threw an explosive device toward the area where the protesters were gathered, according to the complaint. Pictures show the alleged terrorist holding the device. Immediately after he allegedly threw it, he ran to another location down the block where he &#8220;received a second item.&#8221; After he allegedly ignited it, he dropped the device near several police officers, ran away from them, and jumped over a barricade before he was tackled and arrested by the NYPD. His cohort, Kayumi, was also arrested at the scene.
When Balat was arrested, he had a Turkish government identification card on his person that identified him as &#8220;Emir Balat&#8221; as well as a Pennsylvania driver&#8217;s license with his photograph and name. Authorities identified Kayumi through Border Patrol facial-recognition databases, the complaint states.
This is a breaking news story. Check back for updates.

DOJ Charges Two ‘ISIS-Inspired Terrorists’ Who Attempted To Bomb NYC Protest

Islamic Jihad

Pam Bondi

The FBI on Sunday raided the homes of two men who have since been charged in an ISIS-inspired attack outside New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s official residence. 
The Pennsylvania homes of 18-year-old Emir Balat and 19-year-old Ibrahim Kayumi were searched Sunday after they allegedly attempted to light an improvised explosive device (IED) outside of Mamdani’s mayoral mansion during a protest on Saturday. The device did not detonate, but officials said it could have been deadly.
“Earlier this evening, federal and local law enforcement conducted investigative activity in Middletown Township and Newtown related to an incident that occurred yesterday near the New York City Mayor’s official residence,” <a href="https://www.facebook.com/RepBrianFitz/posts/pfbid032gNxSC8hcxCSeWb9AX95b3KbLiLX5Y3CaptNK3o3iHdmc1P5X5dUiwHwdKv5Vjd4l">said</a> Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) on Sunday. “Authorities have indicated that there is no known threat to the surrounding community, and the situation remains under the control of law enforcement. The activity was not related to immigration enforcement.”
On Monday, Attorney General Pam Bondi posted on social media: &#8220;We have charged the two alleged ISIS-inspired terrorists who attempted to bomb a protest in New York City. We will not allow ISIS’s poisonous, anti-American ideology to threaten this nation. Our law enforcement officers will remain vigilant.&#8221;
Both suspects reportedly made pro-ISIS statements while in custody, Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/warrants-served-new-jersey-pennsylvania-feds-look-possible-nyc-terrorism">reported</a>. On Monday, New York City Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said the attempted bombing was an “act of inspired ISIS terrorism.”
Police in Newtown Township, where Kayumi resides, <a href="https://crimewatch.net/us/pa/bucks/newtown-twp-pd/34824/post/police-activity-active-investigation">said</a> Sunday that they were working with the FBI on an investigation. His family&#8217;s 5,800-square-foot home is worth $2.25 million, the New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/03/09/us-news/parents-of-alleged-nyc-bomb-thrower-own-2-5m-home-are-naturalized-citizens-from-afghanistan/?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=nypost&amp;utm_source=twitter">reported</a>. His parents are <a href="https://x.com/BillMelugin_/status/2030771962973188114">repo</a><a href="https://x.com/BillMelugin_/status/2030771962973188114">rtedly</a> from Afghanistan and were naturalized between 2004 and 2009. 
The home of Balat in Middletown Township was also searched on Sunday. That 3,200-square-foot home is worth $653,000, the New York Post reported. 
“The FBI, along with specialized federal teams, is conducting a court-authorized search warrant as part of a federal investigation related to an incident that occurred yesterday in New York City,” Middletown Township said. “There is no known threat to the public at this time, and this activity is not related to immigration enforcement.”
Balat is a high school senior in the Neshaminy School District, <a href="https://www.phillyburbs.com/story/news/crime/2026/03/09/emir-balat-ibrahim-kayumi-bucks-county-terrorism-nyc-isis-iran-protest-lang-mamdani/89064102007/">according</a> to school officials. His parents are <a href="https://x.com/BillMelugin_/status/2030771962973188114">reportedly</a> from Turkey and were naturalized in 2017. 
<div id="attachment_1055941" style="width: 1557px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1055941" class="size-full wp-image-1055941" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/03/Screenshot-2026-03-09-at-11.01.53-AM.png" alt="" width="1547" height="975" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/03/Screenshot-2026-03-09-at-11.01.53-AM.png 1547w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/03/Screenshot-2026-03-09-at-11.01.53-AM-300x189.png 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/03/Screenshot-2026-03-09-at-11.01.53-AM-914x576.png 914w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/03/Screenshot-2026-03-09-at-11.01.53-AM-768x484.png 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/03/Screenshot-2026-03-09-at-11.01.53-AM-1536x968.png 1536w" sizes=" (max-width: 1547px) 100vw, 1547px" />Middletown Township Police Department.</div>
An additional residence in New Jersey was raided as part of the investigation, Fox News reported. 
“FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force is investigating the matter with our partners at NYPD as well as the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York,” the FBI said on Sunday. “Preliminary analysis confirms one of the devices ignited and deployed by the subjects was an IED explosive. Tests remain ongoing for other devices.”

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