Teenage ISIS-inspired bomb suspects planned an attack bigger than Boston Marathon massacre… as their fiery words while being arrested are revealed

Federal charging documents reveal that teenage bomb suspects inspired by ISIS were planning an attack bigger than the deadly Boston Marathon massacre.

Ibrahim Kayumi and Emir Balat were charged on Monday with attempting to provide material support to ISIS, using a weapon of mass destruction and other crimes.

The pair were arrested on Saturday after throwing a homemade ‘Mother of Satan’ bomb outside the New York City mayor’s mansion during an anti-Islam protest.

According to the complaint, while being arrested on Saturday, 19-year-old Kayumi blurted out that ISIS was the reason for his behavior.

In the indictment, it was stated that 18-year-old Balat told the authorities that he had sworn allegiance to the terrorist organization, while Kayumi claimed that he had connections with the Islamic State.

‘All praise belongs to Allah, the Lord of the worlds! I pledge my allegiance [sic] To the Islamic State. die of anger [sic] infidel!’ He told investigators while in NYPD custody, the complaint said.

‘This is not a religion that survives by people mentioning the holy name of the prophet. . . We’re taking action!’

Officers asked Balat if he intended to carry out a bombing similar to the two pressure cooker bombs that exploded near the finish line of the Boston Marathon in 2013, killing three people and injuring hundreds more.

Balat responded, ‘No, even bigger,’ according to the complaint. He also noted that the Boston bomber caused only ‘three deaths’.

The couple were arrested on Saturday after the homemade ‘Mother of Satan’ bomb, pictured above, was thrown in front of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s home.

Barat and Kayumi were also charged with transportation of explosives, interstate transportation and receiving of explosives, and possession of an unlawful destructive device.

Both men have addresses in Pennsylvania, and Balat was carrying a Turkish government identification card in addition to his Pennsylvania driver’s license, according to the complaint.

Male lawyers were expected to appear in court. Efforts to reach the suspects’ families did not yield immediate results.

According to the complaint, an automatic license plate reader caught the couple entering New York from New Jersey less than an hour before the attack.

Their vehicle, registered to one of Balat’s relatives, was found a few blocks from where they were arrested Sunday.

A search of the car revealed a ‘hobby wick’ and a metal canister, as well as a written list of chemical ingredients and ingredients that could be used to make explosives, the complaint said.

The homemade devices, which did not explode, were thrown during rowdy counter-protests against an anti-Islam demonstration led by far-right activist and Mamdani critic Jake Lang on Saturday.

Mamdani and his wife were not at Gracie Mansion at the time of the incident.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani speaks with New York City Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch (second from left) in front of Gracie Mansion on Monday morning

Speaking in front of the residence on Monday morning, Mamdani said that Balat and Kayumi ‘came from Pennsylvania and were trying to bring violence to New York’.

Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said there was no indication that their alleged activities were linked to the ongoing war in Iran.

He declined to provide further information about why authorities believe the suspects were motivated by the Islamic State group, a Sunni extremist group. Iran’s population consists almost entirely of Shiites, Islam’s other main religious community.

As Mamdani and Tisch briefed reporters Monday, Lang intervened from outside the gates of Gracie Mansion.

FBI agents raided both men’s family homes in suburban Philadelphia on Sunday.

Barat, whose parents were born in Türkiye and reportedly became a US citizen in 2017, lived with his family in a $653,000 house in Langhorne.

Two men and a woman were detained in a two-storey residence of 3,200 square meters. WPVI reported.

At least 10 agents raided Kayumi’s parents’ home $2.25 million home in Newtown on Sunday, images taken WCAU showed.

A man was taken into custody in the spacious 5,800-square-foot home, which has six bedrooms and five bedrooms.

No charges were filed against the people detained in the relevant residences.

Kayumi’s parents come from Afghanistan and became U.S. citizens in 2004 and 2009.

The suspected bomber was in Istanbul for several weeks in July and August 2024. He went to Saudi Arabia in March of the same year.

Balat also went to Türkiye He has visited several times in the past year, with his most recent trip being in January.

He had previously visited the district between May 6 and August 26 last year.

Investigators are understood to be investigating the pair’s foreign travel history to learn about what they describe as ‘terrorist training grounds’.

About 20 people attended Lang’s thinly attended protest on Saturday, while about 125 demonstrators attended the counter-protest.

It was claimed that Balat lit an explosive containing nuts, bolts, screws and a ‘hobby wick’ and dropped it on the crowd in front of Gracie Mansion around 12.30. The device self-extinguished a few feet away from the police officers.

He then took a second device from Kayumi and left it on the west side of East End Boulevard, between East 86th and 87th streets. This device did not look like it would fire.

Even before the devices were thrown, the scene had become chaotic. Ian McGinnis, 21, who attended the anti-Islam protest, was arrested after pepper spraying counter-protesters, police said. McGinnis, of Philadelphia, was released without bail after pleading not guilty to assault and aggravated harassment in a New York court on Sunday, records show. A message seeking comment was left for his attorney Monday.

Three other people were detained but were released pending trial.

Following the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, Lang was charged with assaulting a police officer with a baseball bat, disrupting civil order and other crimes. He was later released from prison as part of President Donald Trump’s sweeping act of clemency. Lang recently announced he will run for the U.S. Senate in Florida.

Earlier this year, he held a rally in Minneapolis in support of Trump’s crackdown on immigrants, drawing the attention of an angry mob of counterprotesters who quickly chased him away.

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