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Mass Hoax Bomb Threat Hits Thousands of Italian Schools

Numerous schools across Italy were evacuated on Wednesday after some 6,300 education centers received a hoax bomb threat via email.

The public broadcaster Rai reports that thousands of Italian schools received the threatening email during the morning hours of Wednesday, right as a new school day was underway. The situation prompted the evacuation of some, but not all of the thousands of schools. Police officers searched through the premises of the evacuated centers, but found nothing.

Italian Education Minister Giuseppe Valditara affirmed to reporters that there was a “non-existent risk” derived from the hoax email, but pointed out to the recent string of false bomb threats across Europe.

Rai, and other Italian outlets, published the contents of the hoax threat — which was reportedly sent to the schools through email addresses from Taiwan. In the text, an anonymous individual claiming to be “Mikhail Andropov” from the Vilayat (“Province” in Arabic) of “Misoginistan” threatened with the “annihilation” and “genocide” of  Italians.

“I have been preparing for this for a long time: to kill every single one of you. I have just left a powerful explosive device with a remote detonator inside a plastic bag in your building,” the hoax email reportedly read.

“I positioned it so that the shock wave will spread throughout the entire building. All that will remain of you are bones and a bloody pulp,” the text continued.

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‘The Clock Is Ticking’: Chilling Bomb Threats Force Evacuations at Europe’s Top Television Stations

Television stations across Europe were evacuated Friday after receiving a series of bomb threats warning that “the clock is ticking.”

Ireland’s national broadcaster RTE, Britain’s Sky News and Bulgaria’s Nova TV were among the targeted outlets.

No explosives were ultimately discovered.

The threatening emails claimed that an explosive device had been planted inside the relevant buildings and would detonate within 45 minutes.

“We want the whole world to know about us, which is why one of our operatives has planted an explosive device in your building,” one message read.

“It will detonate in 45 minutes. The clock is ticking.”

Dublin-based RTE was forced to suspend normal programming for several hours while police conducted an extensive search of its Dublin headquarters.

Employees were eventually permitted to return after the building was declared safe.

Nova’s newsroom in Sofia was similarly evacuated and searched, although its broadcasts remained on air.

The threats come after a wave of apparent hoax bomb warnings targeting passenger flights across Europe in recent days.

This has resulted in diversions, emergency landings and security operations. Authorities have so far reported finding no explosives.

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Ukrainian Intelligence Just Tried Its Own Version Of The Israeli Pager Attack

It appears Ukrainian intelligence has attempted to do its own version of the Israeli pager bomb attacks that decimated many Hezbollah commanders in September 2024.

Russian authorities announced Monday the uncovering of a bizarre and twisted plot involving boobytrapped goggles for military drone operators.

The FSB security service said Monday it thwarted a shipment of drone goggles rigged with explosives that were meant to be distributed across drone units.

“During an X-ray examination, explosives specialists established that Ukrainian special services had embedded improvised explosive devices into the first-person view goggles where cooling fans are normally placed,” the FSB said.

Per the official statement and claims, the explosives would have detonated the moment the goggles were turned on, resulting in immediate death or injury.

It was undisclosed just how many headsets were intercepted, but likely border authorities are on high alert protecting against any further shipments or severe security breaches.

The rigged shipment in question was first discovered in the southern Volgograd region – but then other shipments were intercepted elsewhere. The shipments were presented as part of ‘volunteer’ donations.

This isn’t the first time that electronic items had bombs planted in them allegedly by Ukrainian intelligence operatives. Russian authorities are on the lookout for pontentially tampered items including speaker systems, power banks, laptops, or even car parts.

The incident is being compared to the prior similar Israeli operation which was years in planning that rocked Lebanon at the height of the recent Israel-Hezbolllah war there. As we featured at the time:

Former Mossad agents revealed new details of Israel’s pager and walkie-talkie terror attacks carried out against members of Hezbollah in interviews with the CBS News program 60 Minutes this week..

According to a former Israeli intelligence agent known as Michael, Hezbollah bought more than 16,000 of the exploding devices. When Mossad chief David Barnea gave the green light for the attack in September, the pagers and walkie-talkies were detonated on subsequent days.

Some 42 people were killed, including two children, while about 4,000 were injured. Many lost their hands and eyes or had their stomachs ripped open by the explosions. Michael said the walkie-talkie batteries, which included explosive devices, were made in Israel at a Mossad facility.

Drone warfare has become front and center in the longrunning Ukraine war, and has fundamentally transformed the battlefield. And so drone parts and operating equipment continue to be in high demand among both warring sides.

In some cases loitering drones have even been known to attack and bomb single individuals in gruesome scenes. Both sides have been deploying these tactics.

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High school student arrested after being accused of attempting to make explosives for ISIS

A 15-year-old high school student in Alachua County, Florida, was arrested after an investigation by local authorities and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) purportedly discovered that he was attempting to build explosives for a terrorist organization.

The Alachua County Sheriff’s Office (ACSO) and FBI conducted a joint search on Friday at the home of 15-year-old Jude Sleeper, after investigators discovered he was communicating online with members and supporters of the Islamist terrorist group ISIS.

Sleeper was charged with making or attempting to make a destructive device after authorities discovered he was seeking advice on how to build drones and explosives to attack people at an unknown location. Additional charges are possible as the investigation continues, ACSO and the FBI noted on Tuesday.

The ACSO office also added that they spoke with the15-year-old’s parents, who allowed police to search their home and their child’s phone.

Upon searching Sleeper’s phone, they reportedly found files containing instructions for making explosive devices and chemical compounds — as well as ISIS-related content and propaganda.

Inside his bedroom, investigators found two jars. Sleeper reportedly admitted they contained chemicals used to manufacture triacetone triperoxide (TATP), a highly volatile explosive. The residence was immediately evacuated, and the ACSO Bomb Squad responded to secure the scene and evaluate the hazardous materials.

Once the home was rendered safe, ACSO detectives obtained and executed a second search warrant.

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Suspect Arrested in ICE Office Firebombing Attempt Case: ‘Despicable, Terroristic Crime’

A 31-year-old man was arrested Friday and accused of throwing a Molotov cocktail at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) field office in Atlanta, Georgia, on Tuesday.

The suspect was identified as Inique Hinton of Douglasville who was arrested in Cobb County and is now facing federal charges in the case, WSB-TV reported Friday.

Hinton was allegedly caught on camera walking near the ICE building at 180 Ted Turner Drive when he allegedly ignited an object and threw it toward the building. The object hit the fence and burst into flames. Investigators found burned cloth, lighter fluid, a glass bottle, and a lighter when they arrived at the scene.

Hinton reportedly walked away from the area before authorities arrived.

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Utah man federally charged after allegedly making threats online to ‘blow up’ a synagogue

A Utah man who allegedly posted “I wanna blow up a synagogue” online has been indicted on federal charges after investigators recovered six pipe bombs, two rifles, and ammunition from his home, according to the Department of Justice.

Skyler AJ Rose, 22, of Ogden, was indicted Wednesday by a federal grand jury in Salt Lake City. The charges include attempting to commit a hate crime, possession of an unregistered destructive device, and threatening to kill and injure people and destroy a building with an explosive, the Justice Department announced Thursday.

According to court documents, Rose made multiple threatening social media posts on December 23, 2025, including the threat to bomb a synagogue. Investigators traced the posts to an IP address associated with the home where he lived.

The FBI contacted the Ogden City Police Department for assistance visiting the residence, and investigators confirmed that the social media handle belonged to Rose, authorities said.

During a search of the home, law enforcement allegedly recovered six improvised explosive pipe bombs, one inert device, and materials and components that could be used to build additional pipe bombs. Investigators also seized two rifles with accompanying magazines and ammunition, along with a Samsung cellphone.

A subsequent search of the phone allegedly revealed that Rose had searched online for a synagogue near him in November 2025, a month before the threatening posts. Authorities also alleged that the phone contained hundreds of cached images and screenshots depicting child sexual abuse material.

“Today’s indictment stops in its tracks an alleged plan to carry out a violent attack on a synagogue,” said Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. “The Department of Justice will take decisive action to protect American worshippers from violent threats, no matter where they occur.”

US Attorney Melissa Holyoak credited federal investigators and local police with stopping the alleged threats before anyone was harmed.

“Let these charges serve as a clear warning: if you attack or attempt to attack a place of worship, you will face the full force of the federal government,” Holyoak said.

Rose’s initial appearance is scheduled for Friday, October 23, at 1:30 pm at the Orrin G. Hatch US Courthouse in Salt Lake City.

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New Oklahoma City Revelations Raise More Questions

One of the enduring mysteries of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing case is the little-known but well-documented and indisputable fact that Timothy McVeigh and the “others unknown” involved in the bombing used two different Ryder trucks in the later stages of the bombing plot.

What happened to this second truck, where it was obtained (FBI documents indicate that the bureau may have believed it was purchased at auction—more on those documents in a moment), and its final purpose remain unknown today.

Dozens of witnesses in Kansas observed two distinctly different Ryder trucks between April 11 and April 18—both parked at Geary Lake and the Dreamland Motel. One of the trucks was smaller, frequently described as “faded yellow,” with either no visible Ryder logo or one that was barely visible, and with a cab-overhang on the front of the truck. This detail would also capture the attention of the FBI, who began asking witnesses whether the truck they saw had the cab-overhang and showed them a Ryder company flyer depicting several trucks, asking which type they had observed.

The other of the two trucks was described as much larger—the 20-foot model—and by witnesses as “cleaner” and “newer,” even “more aerodynamic.” This was the truck rented from Elliott’s body shop on April 17 and ultimately used to deliver the bomb.

The second truck, with a few exceptions, is generally omitted from most contemporary accounts of the bombing, yet its existence is confirmed in numerous FBI documents.

A half dozen people at the Dreamland Motel—where McVeigh stayed the week before the bombing—place McVeigh parking the smaller Ryder truck at the Dreamland Motel on Easter Sunday and Friday and Saturday—days before the larger bomb truck was rented at Elliott’s on Monday, April 17.

Consider the following account from Apache helicopter mechanic Shane Boyd, who stayed in room #28 at the Dreamland Motel for several weeks in April 1995 while working at nearby Ft. Riley. Boyd told FBI SA Mark Bouton that around 6:00 AM on Friday, April 14, he saw a Ryder truck with a steel-framed trailer pull out of the Dreamland Motel’s parking lot. Boyd also told the FBI that he is sure he saw the Ryder truck parked at the Dreamland Motel again on Saturday and on Easter Sunday.

Consider the accounts of Dreamland residents David King and his mother, Herta King. Both Kings saw the smaller Ryder truck the weekend before the bomb truck’s rental. FBI special agents Robert Knox and Leslie Gardner interviewed David King on April 27 about activities at and around the motel. David told the FBI that on Easter Sunday, his mother visited him at the Dreamland around half past noon. King stated that both he and his mother saw a yellow Ryder truck parked directly in front of his room that Sunday afternoon.

Herta King later testified at the McVeigh trial that she saw the Ryder truck parked at the Dreamland on Easter Sunday. She stated that she was friends with the motel owner, Lea McGown, and that they had discussed the truck being there on Easter Sunday. King said that Lea McGown told her, “it doesn’t make sense that a truck was there on Sunday, if McVeigh rented it on Monday.”

Indeed, it doesn’t make sense. McVeigh rented a truck on Monday, April 17, yet we have a half dozen witnesses who saw a yellow moving truck with McVeigh prior.

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Netanyahu brings ‘killer pager’ to UN

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held up a pager at the UN General Assembly, invoking the deadly 2024 covert sabotage operation against Hezbollah in Lebanon, which killed dozens and severely wounded thousands, including women and children.

Thousands of pagers carried by Hezbollah members exploded across Lebanon on September 17, 2024, followed by hundreds of weaponized walkie-talkies the next day. The attacks killed dozens and injured up to 4,000 people, including numerous civilian bystanders, healthcare workers, and their families. Israel later acknowledged responsibility for the operation.

Speaking at the General Assembly on Thursday, Netanyahu held up a pager, saying: “You remember the beepers? Remember these? Hezbollah certainly remembers them.”

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Leftist Teen Who Plotted to BOMB and BEHEAD ICE Agents in Portland Walks With 3 Years Probation — Sen. Mike Lee: “Insufficient Punishment for TERROR PLOTS”

An Oregon leftist who wrote a manifesto, built Molotov cocktails, ordered an AR-15, and planned to stalk ICE agents home, murder them, and take their heads as trophies is going back into society.

Rayden Tanner Coleman, 19, of Columbia City, Oregon, pleaded guilty Tuesday to two counts of unlawful manufacture of a destructive device.

As part of the sweetheart agreement, prosecutors dismissed 13 other charges, including attempted first-degree domestic terrorism, second-degree domestic terrorism, attempted assault, and several destructive-device offenses.

Coleman must continue receiving mental-health treatment, undergo evaluations, surrender the weapons seized by authorities, and pay $550 in fines and fees.

Judge Michael T. Clarke sentenced him to 36 months of supervised probation and 75 days in jail with credit for time already served. That means zero additional days behind bars.

Probation. For a terror plot.

The Gateway Pundit previously reported that Coleman was arrested in February after acquaintances alerted police to his alleged plans to attack ICE agents operating out of Portland.

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Nord Stream bombing suspect arrested while working on film about attack

A Ukrainian man arrested in the Nord Stream bombing was detained while working on a Hollywood movie about the gas pipeline attack starring Adrien Brody and Sean Penn, a report said Thursday.

Police in Pula, Croatia on Wednesday arrested Volodymyr Zhuravlyov under a European arrest warrant put out by Germany, which is seeking his extradition.

German prosecutors say Zhuravlyov is a trained diver and accuse him of helping plant explosives on the Baltic Sea energy link between Russia and Germany that destroyed three of the four pipelines in 2022.

Germany’s Legal Tribune Online reported he was arrested while working on the set for the movie “Snake Island” by US director Doug Liman (“Bourne Identity”), with Brody and three-time Oscar winner Penn.

Zhuravlyov worked as an advisor for the film, according to media reports AFP was unable to immediately verify with German or Croatian authorities.

The Ukrainian suspect had previously been held in Poland for his alleged role in destroying the pipelines.

But authorities there refused to extradite him and let him go, judging that any such Ukrainian attack would have been a legitimate act of war rather than a crime.

The Baltic Sea sabotage attack came months after Moscow’s February 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

German investigators believe the attack was ordered by a Ukrainian state agency with the aim of depriving Russia of future energy revenues to finance its war in Ukraine.

Prosecutors charge Zhuravlyov worked closely with Sergiy Kuznetsov, another Ukrainian man who was arrested in Italy last year before being extradited to Germany.

The case is politically awkward for Germany and Ukraine, as Berlin has strongly backed Kyiv in its fight against Russia.

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