An indictment charged two men with conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction in the homemade bomb attack near Mayor Zohran Mamdani's residence. It cited dashcam audio in which one said, “I want to start terror bro.”
The NATO mission, created in 2018, trained and advised Iraqi forces. Iraq is among the countries facing retaliatory attacks from the U.S.-Israeli war.
The suspects are accused of gathering information last summer on targets linked to the city’s Jewish community.
For many middle- and working-class New Yorkers, it’s an even more distant possibility than it used to be.