FBI say Coney Island was potential terror target of men charged in ISIS case. http://t.co/D0NOAWrHR7 pic.twitter.com/Yjhxfftfzx
— Jim Roberts (@nycjim) February 25, 2015
The three alleged terrorists arrested on Wednesday had back up plans to set off a bomb in Coney Island, if everything else fell through.
Why would the three young men -- Brooklynites Abdurasul Hasanovich Juraboev, 24, Akhror Saidakhmetov, 19, and Abror Habibov, 30 -- want to blow up a neighborhood in their adopted borough?
Speculating here: Perhaps it has something to do with the relatively large number of Russians in Coney Island.
Russia is waging an "online war" against ISIS (or ISIL), according to Aljazeera. ISIS /ISIL has released videos with threats to liberate Chechnya from Russia. Many ISIS recruits are coming from the disputed Russian territory. In fact, there's an "Islamist insurgency" there.
All three of the accused were immigrants from former Soviet republics Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan.
According to Mashable, one of the defendants attended college for a while at City Tech in Downtown Brooklyn, though not currently.
This is not the first time Brooklyn has been threatened by Islamic extremists, the Brooklyn Eagle reports. In 1997, police arrested terrorists planning to detonate bombs in the Atlantic Avenue subway station.
There have been 16 known terrorist plots against New York City since September 11, 2001.
PHOTO: 3 suspects arrested in US on plot to join Islamic State group appear at NY court http://t.co/pCCSadKbzt
— The Associated Press (@AP) February 26, 2015
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