The US Army Veteran accused of plotting wide-scale terror attacks across southern California reportedly plotted his terror campaign as retribution for a series of Mosque shootings in New Zealand.
“A U.S. Army veteran was plotting a large-scale terror attack in Los Angeles as revenge for the mass shootings at two mosques in New Zealand, according to court papers released Monday,” reports NBC News.
“Mark Steven Domingo, 26, boasted about amassing an arsenal of weapons, including 80 pounds of nails for a bomb, to carry out the attack in retaliation for the killing of Muslims by a white supremacist in the city of Christchurch, according to an affidavit supporting the criminal complaint,” adds the author.
According to the report, Domingo said his ultimate goal after launching his terror campaign was, “Martyrdom, Bro.”
Read the full report at NBC News.
BE VIGILANT: US State Dept. Warns of ‘Christmas’ Terror Threat for Americans in Spain
The United States Department of State issued a chilling warning to Americans vacationing in Spain over the Christmas holiday; urging travelers in Barcelona to be vigilant against potential terror attacks in major tourist hotspots throughout the city.
“Exercise heightened caution around areas of vehicle movement, including buses, in the Las Ramblas area of Barcelona during Christmas and New Year’s. Terrorists may attack with little or no warning, targeting tourist locations, transportation hubs, and other public areas,” posted the department on social media.
#Spain: Exercise heightened caution around areas of vehicle movement, including buses, in the Las Ramblas area of Barcelona during Christmas and New Year’s. Terrorists may attack with little or no warning, targeting tourist locations, transportation hubs, and other public areas. pic.twitter.com/MPGiZwMwxq
— Travel – State Dept (@TravelGov) December 23, 2018
Las Ramblas and the surrounding area was hit with a major terror attack in summer 2017 when an ISIS-inspired fighter drove a van into a crowded pedestrian walkway; killing fourteen people and injuring over 100.
BERNIE’S BACKLASH: Team Trump BLASTS Sanders’ Plan to Allow ‘Terrorists, Murderers’ to Vote
President Trump’s re-election campaign unloaded on Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders newest radical proposal Wednesday; blasting his plan to permit convicted “terrorists and murderers” to vote from prisons across the country.
“The extremity and radicalism of the 2020 Democrats knows no bounds,” said Trump campaign press secretary Kayleigh McEnany.
“Giving imprisoned terrorists, sex offenders, and murderers the right to vote is an outrageous proposal that is deeply offensive to innocent victims across this country, some of whom lost their lives and are forever disenfranchised by the very killers that 2020 Democrats seek to empower,” she added.
Senator Sanders stunned viewers during a televised town hall event Monday when he said the Boston Marathon bomber and other convicted mass murderers should “have the right to vote” while incarcerated.
Read the full report at Fox News.