SAN ANTONIO, Texas — The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation worked frantically to locate and arrest a suspect connected to a “credible threat” to attack the Texas State Capitol in Austin, Texas on October 1. The suspect, 40-year-old Benny Caldera Jr., was taken into custody early Wednesday morning after a DPS SWAT team located him at his residence in Converse, a suburban city 13 miles northeast of San Antonio.
Federal officials have declined to answer questions about the immigration status of Muhammad Shahzeb Khan, citing privacy laws, and said only that they are reviewing how he came to Canada.
The terrorists were planning to kill the Pope because of his visit to Jakarta’s Istiqlal mosque and “the government’s appeal to television stations to refrain from the usual broadcasting of azan (Islamic call to prayer) while a live broadcast of Pope Francis’ visit was in session.”
Security guards noticed the man visibly brandishing the weapon outside the Yavne school in Marseille and then trying to enter a kosher market where he was detained.
The attack was allegedly planned for March 15 – the second anniversary of the attack by Australian terrorist Brenton Tarrant, who shot and killed 51 people at two mosques in the city in 2019.
Baker has been charged with transmission of a threat to kidnap or injure, and could be facing up to five years of prison time for distributing flyers and posting a plan online to surround and attack pro-Trump protestors at the Florida Capitol this coming Sunday.
In a stunning and disgraceful decision, the Canadian Parole Board has granted Muhammad Shareef Abdelhaleem day parole, 14 years into his life sentence for being a key architect of the Toronto 18 terrorist plot.
