A suspected terror plot is foiled in Southern California, following an undercover operation.
A terror plot by an Army veteran who converted to Islam and planned to bomb a white supremacist rally in Southern California as retribution for the New Zealand mosque attacks was thwarted, federal prosecutors said Monday.
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Mark Steven Domingo was planning to detonate an IED at a white nationalist rally in Long Beach, California, on Sunday, federal officials said. The FBI said Domingo, given an inert improvised explosive device by an undercover agent, later was detained after he scoped out the potential attack site.
Domingo was seeking retribution for the war in Afghanistan and the New Zealand mosque massacre last month, allegedly discussing plans to target Jews, police officers, churches and a military facility, authorities said.
After the recent attacks in New Zealand and Sri Lanka, there’s been increasing concern over reprisals by ideological extremists, former FBI agent and ABC News Contributor Steve Gomez says on “Start Here.”
“It appears,” he says, “that all of these are just playing off of each other, which makes it even more difficult to deal with.”