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Related: About this forumFeds: Terror suspect planned to kill college students, mimic Boston Marathon attack
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In this July 26, 2012 photo provided by the Northumberland News, Alexander Ciccolo participates in a peace walk through Brighton, Ontario. Law enforcement officials say Ciccolo was arrested after his father, a Boston police captain, alerted authorities that his son was talking about joining the Islamic State group and setting off bombs.
Feds: Terror suspect planned to kill college students, mimic Boston Marathon attack
Tuesday, July 14, 2015
Joe Dwinell, ORyan Johnson
The 23-year-old son of a Boston police captain said he wanted to execute sinful college students in a massacre similar to the marathon bombings and then broadcast the carnage over the Internet in a sick tribute to ISIS, federal prosecutors said yesterday.
Alexander Ciccolo is the estranged son of Boston police Capt. Robert Ciccolo, who turned his son in to authorities, a law enforcement official told bostonherald.com yesterday.
Alexander Ciccolo also known as Ali Al Amriki lived in an apartment in the Western Massachusetts town of Adams that authorities say was filled with Molotov cocktails, guns, a pressure cooker and other explosives.
Prosecutors say the younger Ciccolo faces possession of firearms charges as part of a plot to engage in terrorism in a twisted allegiance to ISIS. That plan, authorities said, included an attack on an unnamed university in another state using assault rifles and improvised explosives.
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Feds: Terror suspect planned to kill college students, mimic Boston Marathon attack (Original Post)
unhappycamper
Jul 2015
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MADem
(135,425 posts)1. He's from Adams, MA--way, way, WAY out west.
Closer to NY and VT than Boston, by far.
And he had some weird shit going on. He wanted to take over the radio/tv station and start executing people on the air. A real charmer--I think this investigation was one of the many that were being stepped up over the recent holiday. He also wanted to deploy a Tsarnaev bomb--even bought a pressure cooker at Walmart and boasted about it.
Lock him up.
merrily
(45,251 posts)2. Look at those dead eyes. What heartbreak for the Dad.