{"id":67355,"date":"2024-10-20T20:00:42","date_gmt":"2024-10-20T11:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/oct\/20\/election-islamic-state-us-attacks"},"modified":"2024-10-20T20:00:42","modified_gmt":"2024-10-20T11:00:42","slug":"you-are-next-online-posts-show-islamic-state-interest-in-attacks-on-us-ahead-of-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=67355","title":{"rendered":"\u2018You are next\u2019: online posts show Islamic State interest in attacks on US ahead of election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Internet chatter and Oklahoma arrest of alleged would-be IS attacker indicate terror group\u2019s planning<\/p>\n<p>After the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/oct\/09\/election-plot-afghan-national-fbi\">FBI arrested an Afghan man in Oklahoma<\/a> planning an election day shooting on behalf of the Islamic State, the terrorist organization re-entered what has become one of the most chaotic news cycles leading up to a November vote.<\/p>\n<p>Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi, 27, of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/oklahoma-city\">Oklahoma City<\/a> admitted to investigators he and a co-conspirator expected to die as IS martyrs as they opened fire on crowds on election day, according to charging documents.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/oct\/20\/election-islamic-state-us-attacks\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Internet chatter and Oklahoma arrest of alleged would-be IS attacker indicate terror group\u2019s planningAfter the FBI arrested an Afghan man in Oklahoma planning an election day shooting on behalf of the Islamic State, the terrorist organization re-entere&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4448,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[246,41,221,471,212,1466,52,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas","category-asia-pacific","category-europe","category-islamic-state","category-middle-east-and-north-africa","category-oklahoma","category-uk-news","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4448"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67356,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67355\/revisions\/67356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}