{"id":159655,"date":"2026-03-10T21:29:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T21:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/159655\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T21:29:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T21:29:24","slug":"cnn-deletes-outrageous-post-downplaying-moment-suspected-terrorists-hurled-bombs-near-gracie-mansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/159655\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN deletes outrageous post downplaying moment suspected terrorists hurled bombs near Gracie Mansion"},"content":{"rendered":"

CNN deleted a social media post Tuesday after outraged critics flamed it for trivializing the self-radicalized ISIS fanatics accused of hurling bombs at Gracie Mansion<\/a> \u2014 calling them two \u201cteenagers\u201d who entered New York City for \u201cwhat could\u2019ve been a normal day.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cTwo Pennsylvania teenagers crossed into New York City Saturday morning for what could\u2019ve been a normal day enjoying the city during abnormally warm weather,\u201d said the tweet from the lefty news outlet, which was also the since-removed summary accompanying the full article, according to screenshots.<\/p>\n

A CNN post describing the two teenagers accused of throwing IEDs near Gracie Mansion. CNN\/X<\/p>\n

\u201cBut in less than an hour, their lives would drastically change as the pair would be arrested for throwing homemade bombs.\u201d<\/p>\n

By Tuesday morning, a link to the social media post produced an error message and the news outlet released a statement acknowledging it was deleted.<\/p>\n

\u201cA post regarding the two individuals arrested for throwing homemade bombs outside of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani\u2019s home failed to reflect the gravity of the incident thereby breaching the editorial standards we require for all our reporting. It has therefore been deleted,\u201d CNN said in a statement.<\/p>\n

The full article remained available on CNN\u2019s site, notably referring to Ibraham Kayumi, 19, and Emir Balat, 18,<\/a> as \u201ctwo Pennsylvania men,\u201d not \u201cteenagers,\u201d and omitting the flowery language on the weather and \u201cwhat could\u2019ve been a normal day.\u201d<\/p>\n

An editor\u2019s note from CNN said a previous version of the story included a summary that was removed for the same breach of editorial standards.<\/p>\n

Social media users blasted the post online, questioning how it made it through the editing process and mocking the writer\u2019s casual tone.<\/p>\n

Emir Balat is detained by the NYPD after throwing IEDs near Gracie Mansion. REUTERS<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat sort of country do we live in, where two Pennsylvania teenagers aren\u2019t allowed to enjoy a lovely spring day throwing bombs at people?\u201d one user wrote.<\/p>\n

Another joked: \u201cTwo guys on a day out in Manhattan. Plan: 1. A walk through sunny Central Park. 2. Brunch at a stylish cafe. 3. A little routine terrorism. 4. Haircut, maybe a manicure.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThey framed two people who built homemade bombs as sympathetic figures whose lives were \u2018drastically changed,\u2019\u201d yet another wrote. \u201cThat\u2019s not a lapse in editorial standards, that\u2019s the editorial standard working exactly as intended.\u201d<\/p>\n

Emir Balat was seen running with the smoking bomb before he hurled it near Gracie Mansion. AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Another social media user questioned how the tweet ever made it out of the draft stage, saying, \u201cSomeone signed off on both the headline and the social media post, and that person is drawing a paycheck from you. The people you hire are a direct reflection of your standards, and they seem pretty low.\u201d<\/p>\n

The FBI has raided the swanky homes <\/a>of the two ISIS-inspired extremists accused of throwing homemade bombs near Gracie Mansion during a violent clash Saturday afternoon between right-wing agitators backing Jake Lang and pro-Muslim counter-protesters.<\/p>\n

Kayumi and Balat both self-radicalized in recent years and traveled to Turkey, Saudi Arabia and other terror-training hot spots, The Post previously reported.<\/p>\n

The pair admitted to cops that they also watched ISIS videos and tossed the bomb at right-wing agitators because they felt their religion was being insulted, according to law enforcement sources.<\/p>\n

The homemade explosives \u2014 which did not detonate \u2014 were sports drink bottles filled with triacetone triperoxide, or TATP, a substance known as \u201cMother of Satan\u201d<\/a> and favored by terrorists since it can be made using household ingredients, The Post reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CNN deleted a social media post Tuesday after outraged critics flamed it for trivializing the self-radicalized ISIS fanatics…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159656,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[31360,5058,8409,1208,9,24,55,54,56,17534,82],"class_list":["post-159655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-bomb","tag-cnn","tag-gracie-mansion","tag-media","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-x-formerly-twitter","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}