{"id":252477,"date":"2025-10-31T14:38:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T14:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/252477\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T14:38:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T14:38:11","slug":"potential-terrorist-attack-over-halloween-weekend-thwarted-fbi-director-national","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/252477\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Potential terrorist attack\u2019 over Halloween weekend thwarted: FBI director &#8211; National"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A potential\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/terrorist-attack\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">terrorist attack<\/a> allegedly planned for the <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/halloween\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Halloween<\/a> weekend has been thwarted, according to the director of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1761814748_447_70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The plot was described by <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/kash-patel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">FBI Director Kash Patel<\/a> on social media Friday as \u201cviolent\u201d in nature.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis morning the FBI thwarted a potential terrorist attack and arrested multiple subjects in Michigan who were allegedly plotting a violent attack over Halloween weekend. More details to come,\u201d Patel said.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1761854947_61_national.jpg\" alt=\"For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet breaking National news<\/p>\n<p>For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThanks to the men and women of FBI and law enforcement everywhere standing guard 24\/7 and crushing our mission to defend the homeland.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This morning the FBI thwarted a potential terrorist attack and arrested multiple subjects in Michigan who were allegedly plotting a violent attack over Halloween weekend. More details to come. Thanks to the men and women of FBI and law enforcement everywhere standing guard 24\/7\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 FBI Director Kash Patel (@FBIDirectorKash) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FBIDirectorKash\/status\/1984222011158102097?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">October 31, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>It isn\u2019t clear yet what or who the intended targets were in the thwarted attack.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u00a0This is a developing story<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on World<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A potential\u00a0terrorist attack allegedly planned for the Halloween weekend has been thwarted, according to the director of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252478,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2169,26072,43,44,117783,41,39,42,40,2845,3275],"class_list":{"0":"post-252477","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-crime","9":"tag-fbi","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-terrorist-attack","13":"tag-top-news","14":"tag-top-stories","15":"tag-topnews","16":"tag-topstories","17":"tag-u-s-news","18":"tag-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}