“The ceiling was falling in,” she recalled. “I looked to my left and saw a gun. And heard, 'get in your room.'” Security at Temple Israel was responding to a gunman in a truck that burst through the building, an attack the FBI would later characterize as a Hezbollah-inspired act of terrorism targeting the largest synagogue in Michigan.
Abdullah Albadri, 34, had only arrived in the UK in a small boat from France 16 days before the attempted attack on 28 April 2025. He was arrested trying to scale the railings of the heavily-guarded embassy, and asked the armed diplomatic protection officers who detained him, 'Why are you stopping me from making crimes?'
The New IRA declared on Tuesday that it had intended to kill police coming out of the station, according to local outlet Irish News, and warned that it planned to target officers at their homes with bombs.
Beran A admitted to travelling to Dubai for the purpose of carrying out an attack, where he sought out potential victims, including tourists and soldiers, but was unable to act due to panic attacks.
The trial focused on a 2024 track by Freeze Corleone in which he compared himself to a truck, a line seen as an allusion to an attack in Nice where a man drove a 19-tonne vehicle into crowds, leaving hundreds more injured.
On August 9, 1982, three to five men threw a grenade into Jo Goldenberg, a Jewish-owned restaurant in the Rue des Rosiers, in Paris's historic Marais district, before opening fire on the street outside. Six people were killed and 22 wounded in the incident.
The prosecution said that the contents of one read as a martyrdom note, a note written by someone who intends to die, or expects to be killed, in the pursuit of a specific religious, political or ideological cause.
The threat of terrorism from the Middle East was a consequence of American involvement, not the reason for it. If the US had not been involved since the 1940s, Islamic militants would have little interest in attacking it.
