Two young men from Pennsylvania plotted to kill as many as 60 people in an ISIS-inspired bombing outside the New York City mayor’s residence, federal prosecutors alleged in an indictment released Tuesday. The charges describe a chilling, premeditated attempt at domestic terrorism that failed only because the explosives did not detonate as planned.
Emir Balat, 18, and Ibrahim Kayumi, 19, are charged with attempting to detonate two explosives outside Gracie Mansion on March 7 during an anti-Islam protest. A third bomb was found in their car. Neither device went off as intended, and no one was injured, but the indictment paints a picture of two U.S. citizens who wanted their attack to rival the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing.
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