Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Monday that the FBI disrupted a "massive and horrific terror plot" by an anti-government extremist group allegedly planning a series of bombings against multiple targets in Orange County and Los Angeles, California, beginning on New Year's Eve.
Bondi said the plot by the so-called "Turtle Island Liberation Front," which she described in the announcement as a "far-left, pro-Palestine, anti-government and anti-capitalist group," also "planned to target ICE agents and vehicles."
Additional charges are expected to be filed against the suspects, Essayli said.
The FBI on Friday “intercepted a scheme by members of a violent extremist group we believe determined to detonate explosives at multiple businesses on New Year's Eve," according to Davis.
The four people arrested, whom Davis said were "members of a radical faction of the Turtle Island Liberation Front (TILF), a violent homegrown anti-government group," allegedly planned to plant backpacks containing improvised explosive devices "to be detonated at multiple locations in Southern California targeting U.S. companies."
Carroll and other participants are alleged to have formed a Signal chat known as the "Order of the Black Lotus," which Carroll deemed a "radical" faction of the TILF, and ultimately used it to discuss their bombing plot, according to the complaint.
In their Operation Midnight Sun planning book, the group is alleged to have gone into meticulous detail, arranging how they would split into teams and plant backpacks with IEDs along their "assigned buildings," the complaint says. An "off ground team member" would be assigned to monitor police scanners in the event law enforcement was alerted or responding to their
In a search of Carroll's residence, according to the complaint, investigators uncovered posters and materials associated with TILF, including one reading "DEATH TO ICE," and another reading "DEATH TO AMERICA, LONG LIVE TURTLE ISLAND & PALESTINE."
FBI Director Kash Patel also posted Monday that a fifth person "believed to be linked" to the Turtle Island Liberation Front had been arrested by the FBI in New Orleans for "allegedly planning a separate violent attack."
Just wanted to give a heartfelt thank you for posting the picture of Gary Busey's suitcase.
I only watched the one season of that show probably a decade ago at this point, and that image is about the only thing I took away from watching it. Yet it's a cherished memory.