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Wed Aug 21, 2024, 11:23 AM Aug 21

Police in Argentina arrest 7 accused of plotting terror attacks on Jewish targets

Police in Argentina arrested seven people Saturday during raids against what they said was an Islamic terrorist organization planning an attack on Jewish targets, including synagogues.

Argentina’s Jewish political umbrella organization, DAIA, said the raids had followed its own complaint to Argentina’s Federal Police after a Jewish journalist in Mendoza faced a threat that it did not detail. The group said in a statement that the group had “spread anti-Christian and anti-Jewish language via Telegram and WhatsApp” and also suggested that the group had ties to ISIS and the Taliban.

Local news in the western Argentina province reported that the threats had been made on the journalist’s Facebook page in 2023 but did not name the journalist or specify the threats. According to the reports, the investigation was titled “Salafist Brothers,” a reference to the fundamentalist movement of Sunni Islam.

Patricia Bullrich, Argentina’s minister of security, tweeted footage from the raids, which were conducted at private homes, the Cristo Redentor Border Crossing that connects Argentina and Chile and at the International Airport of Ezeiza in Buenos Aires. The footage showed guns, knives and ammunition as well as Islamic literature and material.

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