PHOTO: Organizers of three Taylor Swift concerts in the Ernst Happel stadium in Vienna this week called them off on Wednesday after officials thwarted a terrorist plot to attack an event. (AP Photo/Heinz-Peter Bader)
Law enforcement officials averted two separate terror plots that would have resulted in a devastating loss of life. One involved a plot to “kill as many people as possible” at one or more Taylor Swift concerts in Austria. The other involved the plan to assassinate former President Trump and other public officials.
Swift abruptly canceled three concerts in Vienna this week, citing concerns for safety after authorities arrested two suspects in an alleged terror plot against the site. They are both male teenagers who are Austrian citizens. Police say one had recently pledged allegiance to the terror group ISIS, after becoming radicalized on the internet.
FBI Special Agent Richard Frankel told ABC News, “ISIS is still out there. They are still online. They are still recruiting.”
A raid on one of the suspect’s homes uncovered what appeared to be bomb-making materials. One of the two confessed to planning to “kill as many people as possible outside the concert venue.”
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