Pro-ISIS twitter account threatens attacks at London Heathrow, Los Angeles and New York’s JFK airports on July 4 weekend
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- Account warned there would be a ‘device placed’ at one of the airports
- Threat was revealed by respected counter-terror group SITE Intelligence
- It comes three days after suicide bombers killed up to 50 in Istanbul
- ISIS also claimed responsibility for Friday’s attack on cafe in Dhaka, Bangladesh
- TSA already expecting chaos as record 43 million Americans travel
- Airports and train terminals on high alert for the holiday weekend
A pro-ISIS twitter account has threatened attacks at London Heathrow, LAX and New York’s JFK airports over the July 4 holiday weekend.
The account said that attacks would be carried out on planes ‘flying from Heathrow [Airport] to the US’ and warned that ‘there will be a device placed in either Heathrow, LAX or JFK airports.’
The threat was revealed by SITE Intelligence Group – the world’s leading non-governmental counterterrorism organization – on its website.