Police arrest US teen in alleged Illinois Hindu temple mass shooting plot - Al Jazeera

Alexandros Paporakis called himself a "sociopathic white supremacist Neo Nazi filled with hatred, fantasizing about mass murder nearly every day.”19-year-old Alexandros Paporakis was a Taco Bell cashier from Palatine, Illinois, who was arrested for an alleged plot for a potential mass shooting targeting a Hindu place of worship. It is not yet known which Hindu temple was the target. Paporakis' co-workers told police they had received digital communications from Paporakis that included a document outlining the planned attack. It also had photos of tactical gear. Paporakis openly identified as a white supremacist at work and told them he couldn’t wait to kill Indian people, according to prosecutors from the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office. Paporakis was arrested when he was leaving his home on Sunday afternoon, the same day the attack was possibly planned.'Why I fought: AKA': An eight-page manifestoPaporakis told his Taco Bell co-workers that Sunday was going to be a special day. He called a coworker saying that he reached the target location, attempted to fire his gun at a man but the gun had jammed and he left “super fast” without being seen.

Israeli settlers have attacked European diplomats, including a French mayor, near the Palestinian village of Taybeh in the occupied West Bank. The delegation was visiting Palestinian olive harvesters on Saturday when the Israeli attackers confronted the group. The attack comes a day after settlers assaulted a US journalist north of Ramallah. In Saturday’s incident, the settlers targeted Belgium’s consul general, French and Polish diplomats and Catholic representatives, Belgian Foreign Minister Maxime Prevot said. “A French mayor was assaulted and a Belgian vehicle damaged,” Prevot said, linking the attack to what he called Israel’s “illegal settlement policy” and pledging to push for further European Union sanctions. French mayor Bernard Baudoux, who was assaulted, told the AFP news agency that the violence suggests that “there is a tolerance on the part of the Israeli government” towards settler violence. Al Jazeera’s Nour Odeh, reporting from Ramallah, said the settlers surrounded the diplomats’ vehicles, pelted them with stones and smashed their windows.

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What researchers uncovered through lab testing and surveillance footage, prosecutors said, was a plot by his fellow graduate student to intentionally poison him.

Omar’s legal team says the search violated safeguards designed to protect constitutional rights of members of Congress. Lawyers for Democratic United States Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota have demanded the return of property seized in a federal raid of her Washington, DC home, accusing the US Department of Justice of conducting a politically motivated investigation and failing to follow judicial instructions during the search. “The political motivations behind this pre-election investigation and search are clear as day,” Omar’s lawyers wrote in a letter sent to federal prosecutors on Friday and obtained by The Associated Press news agency.