CIA report on ISIS preparation for bloodbath at Taylor Swift concert
According to the online news report, “David Cohen”, the deputy director of the CIA, also said that the attackers who were connected with ISIS wanted to kill a large number of people, including Americans, at the American singer's concert in Vienna and wanted to carry out their plan.
According to Isna, he noted that the American security forces were able to arrest the suspects because the CIA and its partners in the intelligence community provided and shared a series of data that these ISIS-related terrorists wanted to do such an act at this concert. .
“There were people in the CIA and other intelligence agencies who thought something was going to happen that day at the Swift concert,” he said during a speech at an intelligence meeting in Washington, D.C., according to Rashatudi news network.
According to reports, terrorists planned to attack one of Swift's three concerts in Vienna; The concerts were scheduled to begin on August 8 as part of the European leg of his Eras tour. However, the plans were canceled by the concert organizers after authorities were informed of the foiled plot.
According to Austrian authorities, the main suspect of this plot was arrested on August 6 along with a 17-year-old accomplice. On August 8, another 18-year-old suspect was also arrested.
Officials said the unidentified mastermind behind the attack, who is 19 years old, pledged allegiance to ISIS after radicalizing himself online.
The attack was apparently planned to take place outside the stadium, where around 65,000 people were expected to attend the concert. After discovering chemicals and special technical equipment in the house of this 19-year-old youth, the police said that the terrorists probably planned to carry out the attack using a knife and an improvised explosive device.
According to the Austrian authorities, the main suspect is also said to have planned a Chinese plot to kill many people outside the concert venue.
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