ISIS inspired suspects who threw IED at NYC Gracie Mansion anti-Islam protestor: NYPD
Molly Crane-Newman, Josephine Stratman, Rocco Parascandola, John Annese, New York Daily News
Mon, March 9, 2026 at 10:33 AM EDT
ISIS inspired suspects who threw IED at NYC Gracie Mansion anti-Islam protestor: NYPD
The Gracie Mansion counterprotesters accused of throwing homemade bombs came to New York with a powerful powder explosive nicknamed “Mother of Satan,” a notebook filled with handwritten notes — and a plan to go “bigger” than the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, federal prosecutors said Monday.
Ibraham Kayumi, 19, and Emir Balat, 18, were radicalized by ISIS and bent on destruction when they arrived at an “Americans Against Islamification” protest staged by Jan. 6 rioter and right-wing provocateur Jake Lang Saturday afternoon, police and the feds allege. The teens live in Pennsylvania.
The duo had two devices ready to go with a third left behind in their car, police and federal prosecutors said. Bayat allegedly lit and hurled a duct-tape-wrapped mason jar with a fuse and triacetone triperoxide, the hallmark explosive seen in bombings around the world, NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said at a Monday press conference at Gracie Mansion.
The device landed near Lang, members of his group and a nearby Daily News reporter covering the protest, but didn’t explode. Kayumi handed Bayat a second device, but Bayat dropped it as he tried to run off, Tisch said.
After his arrest, when law enforcement agents asked Balat if he had hoped to accomplish something akin to the Boston Marathon bombing, he replied, “No, even bigger. It was only three deaths.”
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