{"id":160386,"date":"2026-03-11T15:09:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T15:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/160386\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T15:09:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T15:09:11","slug":"nyc-gracie-mansion-terror-suspect-emir-balat-purchased-fireworks-fuse-in-pennsylvania-before-isis-inspired-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/160386\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC Gracie Mansion terror suspect Emir Balat purchased fireworks fuse in Pennsylvania before ISIS inspired attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/03\/09\/us-news\/shackled-terrorist-defiantly-flashes-isis-salute-after-hes-busted-for-tossing-explosive-device-near-gracie-mansion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">alleged ISIS-loving<\/a>\u00a0wannabe terrorists nabbed in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/03\/09\/us-news\/nyc-bomb-attack-suspects-launch-slew-of-chilling-isis-inspired-threats-after-arrest\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">the Gracie Mansion bomb plot<\/a>\u00a0was allegedly caught on surveillance video buying a fireworks fuse in Pennsylvania\u00a0just days before the attack.<\/p>\n<p>Cameras captured Emir Balat, 18,\u00a0coughing up $6.89 for the 20-foot consumer firework safety fuse Phantom Fireworks in Penndel on March 2, 6ABC reported.<\/p>\n<p>The company discovered the footage after searching Balat\u2019s name in their sales records to see if he or his co-accused,\u00a019-year-old Ibrahim Kayumi, had ever shopped at the store before.<\/p>\n<p>Emir Balat, 18, of Langhorne, appears to have purchased a 20-foot roll of consumer safety fuse from Phantom Fireworks in Penndel, Penn. on March 2, 2026. CBS News\/YouTube<\/p>\n<p>Phantom Fireworks immediately turned over the surveillance footage to federal investigators, the company said.<\/p>\n<p>Balat\u00a0and Kayumi\u00a0\u2014 who sources said had self-radicalized and taken on the hateful ISIS cause \u2014 were arrested on federal charges after they allegedly<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/03\/08\/us-news\/explosive-at-gracie-mansion-protest-determined-to-be-ied-nypd\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">\u00a0hurled a pair of homemade bombs<\/a>\u00a0outside Mayor Zohran Mamdani\u2019s residence on the Upper East Side where an anti-Islam protest\u00a0was taking place on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The devices were packed with an explosive material known as \u201cMother of Satan\u201d favored by terrorists, investigators said.<\/p>\n<p>Footage captured\u00a0Balat\u00a0tossing one of the devices near cops before being handed another IED by Kayumi, prosecutors alleged.<\/p>\n<p>He briefly moves out of camera view before returning to the counter with the fuse, speaking with a retail associate and completing the $6.89 purchase in a checkout lane. CBS News\/YouTube<\/p>\n<p>Neither bombs detonated during the chaos.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the latest on the bombs thrown outside Gracie Mansion<\/p>\n<p>Balat and Kayumi\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/03\/10\/us-news\/hero-nypd-chief-who-chased-down-bomb-suspects-breaks-silence-once-a-cop-always-a-cop\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">were quickly taken down by NYPD officers\u00a0<\/a>who charged toward the pair as they tried to flee.<\/p>\n<p>The teens both later allegedly admitted to harboring radical Islamist motives.<\/p>\n<p>An unexploded homemade explosive device sits on the sidewalk. AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Emir Balat runs away after throwing a homemade explosive device at a protest outside Gracie Mansion on March 7, 2026. REUTERS<\/p>\n<p>Balat chillingly said he hoped the failed attack would be deadlier than the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, prosecutors alleged.<\/p>\n<p>The teen duo, who are both US citizens, faces federal charges of providing material aid to ISIS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the\u00a0alleged ISIS-loving\u00a0wannabe terrorists nabbed in\u00a0the Gracie Mansion bomb plot\u00a0was allegedly caught on surveillance video buying a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160387,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[7080,8406,8409,13057,75,57,9,56,63,65,64,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-160386","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-bombings","9":"tag-fireworks","10":"tag-gracie-mansion","11":"tag-isis","12":"tag-manhattan","13":"tag-metro","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-nyc-headlines","18":"tag-nyc-news","19":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160386","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=160386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}