Christmas, New Year's Eve time major terror attacks averted in Los Angeles, New Orleans? Five 'far-left' persons arrested for planning IED bombing attacks

Four people have been arrested in connection with an alleged plot by a "far-left" anti-government group to stage bomb attacks on New Year's Eve in Los Angeles, officials said Monday.

The suspects were members of a "radical offshoot" of a group known as the Turtle Island Liberation Front (TILF), FBI Director Kash Patel said on X.

Patel described the TILF as "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," he said.

The FBI director said bureau agents in New Orleans had arrested a fifth person linked to the TILF who was allegedly planning a "separate violent attack."

Attorney General Pam Bondi said the arrests "prevented what would have been a massive and horrific terror plot" in Orange County and Los Angeles.

Bondi described the TILF as a "far-left, pro-Palestine, anti-government, and anti-capitalist group."

In addition to the threat of multiple bombings in California, the group also allegedly planned to target agents and vehicles used by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to carry out President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown, Bondi said on X.