Plans to attack a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna in early August are said to have been even more devastating than previously thought.
The deputy director of the CIA has confirmed that the planned terrorist attack on Taylor Swift’s concerts in Vienna in early August was aimed at killing “a large number” of people – including Americans, according to US media reports.
David S. Cohen revealed at the Intelligence and National Security Summit, according to the New York Post: “They were planning to kill a large number of people, tens of thousands of people at that concert, I’m sure many Americans,” Cohen said. “The Austrians were able to make these arrests because the agency and our partners in the intelligence community provided them with information about the plans of this ISIS-affiliated group.”
Pledged allegiance to IS
According to findings by the Directorate of State Security and Intelligence (DSN), the 19-year-old suspect with North Macedonian roots is said to have joined the radical Islamic terrorist militia Islamic State (IS) and taken an oath of allegiance to the new state. IS leader on July 7 and planned to die on August 8 or 9. He tried to get as close as possible to the Ernst Happel Stadium using a blue light and a horn in his car and murder the Taylor Swift fans gathered in front of it with a homemade explosive or a machete and knives.
He was arrested on August 7. A 17-year-old from the main suspect’s neighborhood and an 18-year-old are also in custody.
Swift talks about fear and guilt
Taylor Swift only commented on the cancellation of her concerts after her European tour ended. The cancellation of the concerts in Vienna was “devastating” for her, Swift said. The singer said the reason for the cancellations filled her with “fear and enormous guilt” because so many people wanted to come to the shows.
But she was also deeply grateful to the authorities, “because because of them we were grieving concerts and not lives,” Swift explained, and was touched by the “love and unity” of her fans. The singer defended her long silence on the cancellations, saying she wanted to finish her “Eras Tour” safely before making a public statement.
Swift did not comment on whether the Vienna concerts could be rescheduled. She will continue her tour in October, but before that she will take a “much-needed break,” it was said.
Source: Krone
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