执法部门消息人士告诉ABC新闻，两名被控试图实施当局所称的“伊斯兰国”启发的袭击的宾夕法尼亚州青少年在周六早上带着自制炸弹开车进入曼哈顿之前考虑了其他目标。
消息人士称，调查人员在宾夕法尼亚州巴克斯县的一个储藏室搜查，发现了一个笔记本，青少年在笔记本上写下了购物中心等软目标。没有提到具体的目标。
NYPD称，这些青少年将简易炸药带到了纽约市市长的官邸格雷西大厦，在那里，反穆斯林抗议与反示威发生了冲突。
消息人士称，笔记本和其他证据表明，埃米尔·巴拉特和易卜拉欣·卡尤米策划某种袭击至少已经有一周了。
美国广播公司新闻获得的视频显示，其中一名青少年于3月2日进入宾夕法尼亚州彭德尔的一家烟花店和购物。
“购买的单品是一个20英尺的。消费烟花保险丝的长度。“总共花费不到7美元，”幻影烟花的威廉·韦默在给美国广播公司新闻的电子邮件中说，确认视频中的男子是埃米尔·巴拉特。
美国联邦调查局对存放爆炸残留物的储存装置进行了受控引爆
巴拉特和卡尤米因恐怖主义、使用大规模杀伤性武器和其他罪名被关押。他们还没有提出抗辩。
市长周一表示，事件发生时，市长Zohran Mamdani和他的妻子Rama Duwaji都不在格雷西大厦。
“他们被怀疑来这里实施恐怖主义行动，”马姆达尼当时在一份声明中说。“让我直截了当地说:任何来到纽约市给我们的街道带来暴力的人都将被依法追究责任。”
ISIS-inspired teens considered other targets before Gracie Mansion protest: Sources
The two Pennsylvania teens charged with attempting to carry out what authorities described as an ISIS-inspired attack in New York considered other targets before driving into Manhattan late Saturday morning with homemade bombs, law enforcement sources told ABC News.
Investigators searching a storage unit in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, where the teens are from, discovered a notebook in which the teens wrote about soft targets like shopping centers, the sources said. No specific target was mentioned.
The NYPD said the teens brought improvised explosives to Gracie Mansion, the official residence of the mayor of New York City, where an anti-Muslim protest clashed with a counter demonstration.
The notebook and other evidence suggested Emir Balat and Ibrahim Kayumi had been planning some kind of an attack for at least a week, the sources said.
Video ABC News obtained appears to show one of the teens entering a fireworks store in Penndel, Pennsylvania, on March 2and making a purchase.
"The single item purchased was a 20 ft. length of consumer fireworks safety fuse. The total spend was under $7.00,” Phantom Fireworks’ William Weimer said in an email to ABC News, identifying the man in the video as Emir Balat.
The FBI carried out controlled detonations of devices in the storage unit that contained explosive residue
Balat and Kayumi are being held on terrorism charges, use of a weapon of mass destruction and other offenses. They have not yet entered a plea.
Neither Mayor Zohran Mamdani nor his wife, Rama Duwaji, were in Gracie Mansion when the incident occurred, the mayor said Monday.
"They’re suspected of coming here to commit an act of terrorism,” Mamdani said in a statement at the time. “Let me say this plainly: Anyone who comes to New York City to bring violence to our streets will be held accountable in accordance with the law.”
