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UPDATE: A suspect in the New York City weekend terrorist attack near
Gracie Mansion allegedly planned an assault obigger than the Boston
Marathon bombing,o federal prosecutors said in a criminal complaint
Monday. Click here to get my breaking news alerts delivered to your inbox.

Emir Balat allegedly made the statement after his arrest. Prosecutors say
he told investigators that he and co-defendant Ibrahim Kayumi wanted to
stage an attack exceeding the 2013 bombing that killed three people and injured more than 500 others.

The complaint alleges that on Saturday, Balat and Kayumi attempted to
detonate two apparent explosive devices during a oStop the Islamic
Takeover of New York Cityo protest and counter-protest near Mayor Zohran MamdaniAs residence.

LIVE COVERAGE: Two Muslim men hurled improvised explosive devices at conservative protesters in New York City. The incident happened near
Gracie Mansion, the residence of the mayor. The devices were jars wrapped
in black tape packed with nuts, bolts, screws, and a fuse. Video shows one suspect handing it off before they were arrested. Click here to get my breaking news alerts delivered to your inbox.

Emir Balat, 18, the counterprotester accused of throwing that device and another smoking projectile, and Ibrahim Nikk, 19, who is accused of
supplying one of them, were arrested on Saturday, the police said. No explosions or injuries from the devices were reported.

The Muslims attacked a protest led by Jake Lang called oStop the Islamic Takeover of New York City.o

In response, Mayor Zohran Mamdani, a Muslim, condemned Lang and blamed him
for the violence.

Mamdani called Mr. Lang a owhite supremacisto whose protest was orooted in bigotry and racism,o but he added that owhat followed was even more disturbing.o

oThe attempt to use an explosive device and hurt others is not only
criminal, it is reprehensible and the antithesis of who we are,o the mayor said.

The following is a statement from the NYPD:

NYPD Bomb Squad has conducted a preliminary analysis of a device that was ignited and deployed at a protest yesterday and has determined that it is
not a hoax device or a smoke bomb. It is, in fact, an improvised explosive device that could have caused serious injury or death. Further analysis
will be conducted, including on a second device. Emir Balat and Ibrahim
Kayumi were arrested on scene yesterday and are in custody in connection
with this matter. The NYPD is working on this investigation with our
partners at the U.S. AttorneyAs Office for the Southern District of New
York and the FBI through our Joint Terrorism Task Force. I want to again
thank the brave members of the NYPD who ran towards the danger without hesitation and quickly apprehended the suspects.

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