CIA deputy says Taylor Swift plotters hoped to kill "tens of thousands"
Suspects in the foiled plot to attack Taylor Swift's concerts in Austria hoped to kill "tens of thousands" of people, CIA deputy chief says.
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Suspects in the foiled plot to attack Taylor Swift's concerts in Austria hoped to kill "tens of thousands" of people, CIA deputy chief says.
Taylor Swift will perform in the U.K. Thursday for the first show in the last stop on the international leg of her Eras Tour. CBS News' Tina Kraus is following the security precautions after an apparent terror plot was averted in Austria before a Swift concert.
A third teenager has been arrested in connection with a foiled attack on now-canceled Taylor Swift concerts in Vienna, Austria's interior minister says.
Investigators said they found extensive material related to ISIS and al Qaeda at the home of a 17-year-old Austrian citizen.
Taylor Swift was forced to cancel three shows in Austria's capital over an alleged ISIS-linked terrorist plot. Authorities arrested two young men who they say wanted to commit an attack outside of the stadium where the concerts would have taken place. CBS News Pentagon reporter and producer Ellee Watson, who traveled to Vienna to see Swift, joins with more.
At least two Austrian teenagers are in custody in connection with a suspected terror plot on the now-canceled Taylor Swift concerts in Vienna. CBS News homeland security reporter Nicole Sganga has more details from Washington, D.C. Then, Clara Broekaert, research fellow at global security nonprofit Soufan Center, joins with analysis.
Authorities said one of two suspects who had pledged allegiance to ISIS planned to pose as a police officer and drive a bomb-filled car into crowds outside the Vienna, Austria, stadium where Taylor Swift was set to perform this week. Nicole Sganga has more.
Two people arrested in connection to the Taylor Swift concert terror plot in Vienna, Austria, appear to have been radicalized online, according to officials. CBS News homeland security reporter Nicole Sganga reports.
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Taylor Swift fans gathered in Vienna, Austria, Thursday to sing songs after a foiled terror plot targeting the pop superstar's shows there forced the cancelation of three concerts. CBS News Pentagon reporter and producer Eleanor Watson was in Vienna on vacation and was supposed to attend one of the shows. She joined CBS News 24/7 to discuss the situation followed by a report from CBS News Homeland Security and Justice reporter Nicole Sganga about the investigation into the would-be attackers.
Three Taylor Swift concerts that were scheduled to take place in Vienna, Austria, this week have been canceled after authorities foiled an alleged terrorist plot and arrested two people who they say were planning the attack. BBC News correspondent Bethany Bell joined CBS News with more.
Authorities say two suspected extremists believed to be tied to ISIS appeared to be planning an attack on an event in the Vienna area.
Austrian officials say two people have been arrested over a plotted terror attack at a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna. CBS News foreign correspondent Ian Lee has the latest confirmed information on the suspects.
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