FBI arrests 4 alleged members of radical pro-Palestinian group accused of plotting New Year’s Eve bombings

FIRST ON FOX — Federal authorities accidental they disrupted a credible violent menace implicit the weekend, arresting 4 alleged members of a extremist pro-Palestinian extremist radical accused of readying coordinated New Year’s Eve bombings successful Los Angeles.

The FBI told Fox News Digital that the members self-identified arsenic portion of a extremist offshoot of the Turtle Island Liberation Front (TILF), an extremist radical motivated by pro-Palestinian, anti-law-enforcement, and anti-government ideology. 

According to the FBI, they were allegedly readying coordinated bombing attacks connected New Year’s Eve utilizing improvised explosive devices, targeting 5 abstracted locations crossed Los Angeles.

The bureau said the 4 were arrested successful Lucerne Valley, wherever they were believed to beryllium preparing to trial explosive devices up of the planned attacks. They person each been charged with conspiracy and possession of a destructive device.

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A interruption successful the upwind offers a wide presumption northbound on Avalon Boulevard successful South Los Angeles connected Nov. 9, 2022, aft a record-setting tempest swept done the region. (Myung J. Chun/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

The FBI said Monday that a 5th idiosyncratic believed to beryllium connected to the aforesaid TILF extremist radical was arrested successful New Orleans for allegedly readying a abstracted attack.

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A TILF Instagram relationship said its founding section is successful Los Angeles, and its extremity is to escaped "Turtle Island," an Indigenous sanction utilized to notation to North America, from the "illegal American empire." 

"Free Palestine. Free Hawaii. Free Puerto Rico," the relationship posted. "Freeing the satellite from American imperialism is the lone mode to a harmless and peaceful future," it continued.

Attorney General Pam Bondi posted connected X that the Department of Justice worked with the FBI to forestall the alleged panic crippled successful the Central District of California.

She said TILF was besides readying to people United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and vehicles.

The J. Edgar Hoover FBI Building, location to the FBI headquarters, is seen connected June 9, 2023, successful Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

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"This was an unthinkable effort by our U.S. Attorneys’ Offices and the FBI to guarantee Americans tin unrecorded successful peace," Bondi wrote. "We volition proceed to prosecute these panic groups and bring them to justice."