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Thu Nov 10, 2022, 02:34 PM Nov 2022

(Jewish Group) 18-year-old arrested for threat that prompted FBI warning for synagogues

An 18-year-old was arrested Thursday for allegedly transmitting an online threat that prompted warnings from the FBI of a broad threat to the Jewish community in New Jersey.

Last week’s threat -- which the FBI later said had been "mitigated" -- sent police scrambling to add extra patrols at New Jersey's synagogues and Jewish centers.

Federal prosecutors in Newark have charged Omar Alkattoul of Sayreville, New Jersey, with one count of transmitting a threat in interstate and foreign commerce.

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He allegedly wrote: "I did target a synagogue for a really good reason according to myself and a lot of Muslims who have a brain. ... This attack was just to remind the Jews that as long as 1 Muslim remains in this world they will never live a pleasant life until the Muslims in Palestine, Syria, West Africa, and South Asia are living a pleasant life. The Jews support terror against the muslimeen and they always have."

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That is some spectacular bigotry on display!

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