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15 Dec 2025, 5:25 pm

FBI arrests four people it says were planning to detonate pipe bombs on New Year’s Eve in California

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The Justice Department on Monday said it has arrested four people in the Los Angeles area for allegedly working together on a bomb plot that was set to take place around the city on New Year’s Eve.

The four people arrested – Audrey Ilene Carroll, Dante Garfield, Zachary Aaron Page, and Tina Lai – were identified as members of the Turtle Island Liberation Front, which according to the Justice Department and FBI, has an anti-government ideology.

“The subjects self-identified as members of a radical offshoot of the Turtle Island Liberation Front (TILF), an extremist group motivated by pro-Palestinian, anti-law-enforcement, and anti-government ideology. They were allegedly planning coordinated IED bombing attacks on New Year’s Eve, targeting five separate locations across Los Angeles,” FBI Director Kash Patel said in a statement on X.

The members planning to carry out the attack were using the encrypted messaging platform, Signal, the FBI alleges in the complaint. Carroll, the document says, “provided a list that identified components, chemicals, and tools along with prices which would be required to create the pipe bombs needed to go through with the planned attack.”

The Signal group chat was titled “Order of the Black Lotus,” according to the Justice Department.

On December 12, the group allegedly went to the Mojave Desert to construct and test the explosive devices.

“Based on an FBI Bomb Technician’s review of the materials found at the co-conspirators’ campsite, the FBI Bomb Technician determined that the components could likely be used to build both (1) improvised explosive devices and (2) Molotov cocktail devices, and that the components were readily assemblable,” the complaint says.

First Assistant US Attorney Bill Essayli tied the arrests to a push by the Trump administration “to extinguishing the far-left-terror threats,” in the US.

“This case is another reminder about the dangers that radicalized Antifa-like groups pose to people public safety and the rule of law,” Essayli said during a press conference. The complaint against the group does not name Antifa specifically.

Essayli said that the group was targeting “US companies” with their bombs, but he did not elaborate on the companies they were targeting. The bombs were set to blow up at the same time on New Year’s Eve.

The complaint also alleges that the four involved in the plot were not attempting to kill people, and if they saw anyone in the area of their bombs, they would try and warn them.


This type of “left wing” terrorism targeting corporate properties not people is a throwback to the 1970s. Even “liberation front” in their name harkens back to that era.


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15 Dec 2025, 8:01 pm

Great, now the right-wing terrorists can commit whatever act of murder they themselves have planned without any interference because Maggats have taken over.



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18 Dec 2025, 4:58 pm

Terrorism is terrorism.



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18 Dec 2025, 6:29 pm

Quoted from above:
Based on an FBI Bomb Technician’s review of the materials found at the co-conspirators’ campsite, the FBI Bomb Technician determined that the components could likely be used to build both (1) improvised explosive devices and (2) Molotov cocktail devices, and that the components were readily assemblable,” the complaint says.

Have seen prosecuetors in court , Use this kind of fabricated pretense to harass and abuse individuals . Calling this Turtle group Who was probably just 3 people. Having themselves.A possible or not possible plans that,they may have or had not actually done.Calling them co—conspirators ? (Online friends? that get together)
But the issue that really gets me , Is the exact wording of the FBIs version. Of these evidence items they found
." could be likely" phrase or " components readily assemblable," phrase These exact words admits that they found NO bombs or explosive devises . Worst of all ..Quoted :" Molotov cocktail devices, and that the components were readily assemblable,” the complaint says. So , if I understand this acurrately. Possession of Two bottles of Liqour and a rag or a piece of cloth to stick in the neck of the bottle. IS being considered a components readily assemblable .

Am thinking If any three people get together for a camping trip ,or whatever. And they take liqour with them on the trip.
And are wearing clothing . That could be stuck in the neck of a bottle ? They could be arrested by the FBI. As having Molotov cocktailsMaybe it was the name of the group .{And btw , where is Turtle Island?}. Maybe they were defending the rights of Turtles?
And of Course ,there is no actual listing of any place they blew up, with these devises.??? So do we now have a FBI
dept of Pre- Crime ? Please do not misconstrue my interpetation,in anyway being support of any thing terrorist related.
Honesty in Law Enforcement ,would be more important than trying to indite any person, engaged in any sort of stuff criminal or otherwise.But perhaps all the real facts are not included? 8O :roll:


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18 Dec 2025, 6:57 pm

Jakki wrote:
Quoted from above:
Based on an FBI Bomb Technician’s review of the materials found at the co-conspirators’ campsite, the FBI Bomb Technician determined that the components could likely be used to build both (1) improvised explosive devices and (2) Molotov cocktail devices, and that the components were readily assemblable,” the complaint says.

Have seen prosecuetors in court , Use this kind of fabricated pretense to harass and abuse individuals . Calling this Turtle group Who was probably just 3 people. Having themselves.A possible or not possible plans that,they may have or had not actually done.Calling them co—conspirators ? (Online friends? that get together)
But the issue that really gets me , Is the exact wording of the FBIs version. Of these evidence items they found
." could be likely" phrase or " components readily assemblable," phrase These exact words admits that they found NO bombs or explosive devises . Worst of all ..Quoted :" Molotov cocktail devices, and that the components were readily assemblable,” the complaint says. So , if I understand this acurrately. Possession of Two bottles of Liqour and a rag or a piece of cloth to stick in the neck of the bottle. IS being considered a components readily assemblable .

Am thinking If any three people get together for a camping trip ,or whatever. And they take liqour with them on the trip.
And are wearing clothing . That could be stuck in the neck of a bottle ? They could be arrested by the FBI. As having Molotov cocktailsMaybe it was the name of the group .{And btw , where is Turtle Island?}. Maybe they were defending the rights of Turtles?
And of Course ,there is no actual listing of any place they blew up, with these devises.??? So do we now have a FBI
dept of Pre- Crime ? Please do not misconstrue my interpetation,in anyway being support of any thing terrorist related.
Honesty in Law Enforcement ,would be more important than trying to indite any person, engaged in any sort of stuff criminal or otherwise.But perhaps all the real facts are not included? 8O :roll:



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Turtle Island is a name for Earth or North America, used by some American Indian peoples, as well as by some Indigenous rights activists. The name is based on an oral history once common to the indigenous peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands of North America.

A number of contemporary works continue to use and/or tell the Turtle Island creation story


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18 Dec 2025, 7:38 pm

Well it seems, if in fact Wiki is correct , Then perhaps the goal was to harass any first Nations people OR their supporters . Hhmmm.. Thought the Indian Wars/ persecuetion , Efforts had ended long ago by the Federal Gov.
If in fact the FBI thought the name was a threat.?


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