{"id":308,"date":"2024-08-09T09:01:23","date_gmt":"2024-08-09T09:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/09\/iraqi-teen-detained-in-vienna-after-taylor-swift-attack-plot-foiled\/"},"modified":"2024-08-09T09:01:23","modified_gmt":"2024-08-09T09:01:23","slug":"iraqi-teen-detained-in-vienna-after-taylor-swift-attack-plot-foiled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/09\/iraqi-teen-detained-in-vienna-after-taylor-swift-attack-plot-foiled\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraqi\u00a0teen\u00a0detained in Vienna after Taylor Swift attack plot foiled"},"content":{"rendered":"

An 18-year-old\u00a0Iraqi\u00a0national was detained in Vienna in connection with investigations into an alleged plot to strike a Taylor Swift concert in the Austrian capital, the interior ministry said on Friday. <\/p>\n

The\u00a0Iraqi\u00a0national is said to have come from the same circle as the main suspect, a 19-year-old Austrian with North Macedonian roots, according to the ministry. <\/p>\n

The main suspect, who had vowed loyalty to Islamic State (IS), was planning a lethal assault among the estimated 20,000 \u201cSwiftie\u201d fans set to gather outside Vienna\u2019s Ernst Happel Stadium. <\/p>\n

The US popstar had planned concerts in Vienna on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. All three were canceled late Wednesday over security concerns. <\/p>\n

Two other Austrian youths aged 17 and 15 were detained on Wednesday over the reported plot. <\/p>\n

The 15-year-old has meanwhile been released and is being treated as a witness, the Kurier newspaper reported on Friday. <\/p>\n

The\u00a0Iraqi\u00a0suspect is reported to have sworn allegiance to IS on Aug. 6, but it remains unclear whether he had anything to do with the planned attack, the newspaper reported. <\/p>\n

This is a developing story and will be updated. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An 18-year-old\u00a0Iraqi\u00a0national was detained in Vienna in connection with investigations into an alleged plot to strike a Taylor Swift concert in the Austrian capital, the interior ministry said on Friday. The\u00a0Iraqi\u00a0national is said to have come from the same circle as the main suspect, a 19-year-old Austrian with North Macedonian roots, according to the ministry. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":309,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}