As the WLT Report previously reported, on Saturday afternoon, two Muslim men were arrested near Mayor Zohran Madani’s Gracie Mansion after carrying out a terror attack against anti-Islam protesters.
The men were identified as Emir Balat and Ibrahim Kayumi and were arrested after they threw two homemade bombs filled with nails, which have since been confirmed to be live bombs, at protesters and police officers.
Now the FBI has found more explosives connected to the two men inside a storage unit in Pennsylvania.
NBC News provided more details on the findings by the FBI:
The FBI said Tuesday that it found “explosive residue” in a Pennsylvania storage unit believed to be connected to what authorities described as an “ISIS-inspired terrorism” incident near New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s residence over the weekend.
In a post on X, the FBI said that it found the explosives and that authorities “conducted a controlled detonation to ensure the safety of law enforcement and others in the area.” The explosives are “believed to be connected” to Saturday’s incident, in which improvised explosive devices were thrown outside Gracie Mansion during weekend protests.
Two Pennsylvania teenagers — Ibrahim Kayumi, 19, and Emir Balat, 18 — are facing federal charges in connection with the Saturday incident.
None of the devices were detonated and nobody was injured.
A senior law enforcement official briefed on the investigation said several components and chemicals were removed from the Pennsylvania storage facility. The official added that local police detonated some of those components out of precaution as part of their ongoing investigation late last evening.
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🚨BREAKING: Multiple EXPLOSIVES have been found by the FBI at a Pennsylvania storage unit linked to the Muslim bombers, Emir Balat and Ibrahim Kayumi, in New York City: pic.twitter.com/lJMArsNnMl
— Morse Report (@MorseReport) March 10, 2026
CBS reported in detail what charges the two men face:
On Monday, the Southern District of New York charged Balat and Kayumi with five counts, including attempted support to a designated foreign terrorist organization (ISIS), use of a weapon of mass destruction and transportation of explosive material.
New York Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch told reporters Monday both admitted to being inspired by ISIS. Balat told investigators he wanted to carry out a bigger attack, Tirsch said.
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Emir Balat, 18, and Ibrahim Kayumi, 19, face a judge for the first time since their arrests. March 9, 2026.
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“[Balat] also told investigators that he hoped to carry out an attack even bigger than the Boston Marathon bombing, which he noted resulted in ‘only three deaths,'” Tisch said.Tisch said that Balat and Kayumi both waived their Miranda rights, and Kayumi told police he watched ISIS propaganda on his phone. While waiving his rights, Balat wrote a statement and declared his allegiance to the Islamic State, Tisch said.
“This was an alleged ISIS-inspired act of terrorism that could have killed American citizens. We will not allow ISIS’s poisonous, anti-American ideology to threaten this nation — our law enforcement officers will remain vigilant, as they were when these devices were brought to a protest,” U.S. Attorney General Pamela Bondi said in a statement.
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