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According to the complaint, Heifler spoke on a video call in February with a group that included an undercover law enforcement officer about his interest in training for \u201cself-defense\u201d and wanting space where he could throw Molotov cocktails.<\/p>\n
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The next day, the complaint said, Heifler and the undercover officer met in person and he discussed wanting to vandalize Kiswani\u2019s home. She is identified in the document as \u201cVictim-1.\u201d He said he had Kiswani\u2019s address and spoke to the undercover officer about making Molotov cocktails and his plan to flee the country after the attack, the complaint said.<\/p>\n
Heifler was planning to leave the country at the end of April but he later told the undercover officer that would be delayed until mid-May, according to the complaint.<\/p>\n
On March 4, Heifler and the undercover officer drove to Kiswani\u2019s residence to \u201cconduct surveillance\u201d and discussed making a dozen Molotov cocktails, the complaint said. In addition to throwing them at Kiswani\u2019s home, Heifler suggested throwing two of them at cars parked outside, the complaint said.<\/p>\n
On Thursday, the undercover officer and Heifler met at Heifler\u2019s Hoboken residence, the complaint said. Heifler was carrying a large bottle of Everclear, a liquor with a high alcohol content level and had other components to make the Molotov cocktails at his home, the complaint said.<\/p>\n
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According to the complaint, Heifler reiterated that some of the Molotov cocktails would be thrown directly into Kiswani\u2019s residence, while others would be thrown at cars.<\/p>\n
After they built eight Molotov cocktails, law enforcement officers executed a search warrant at the residence and recovered the eight Molotov cocktails, the complaint said. A preliminary analysis by FBI bomb technicians tested positive for the presence of ethanol and concluded that the Molotov cocktails were destructive devices, the complaint said<\/p>\n
Kiwani, 31, said she was shell-shocked by the news, but not surprised.<\/p>\n
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\u201cI feel very blessed that they were able to thwart this, but it\u2019s something that is a constant possibility for people who speak up on behalf of Palestine,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FILE – Police detain Nerdeen Kiswani, an organizer of pro-Palestinian demonstration group “Within Our Lifetime” during a protest,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177396,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[71810,71811,71809,1066,9,24,63,833,834,3065,2336,829,831,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-177395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-alexander-heifler","tag-andrew-heifler","tag-fbi-nypd-nerdeen-kiswani","tag-new-jersey","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-package-100024-ap-online","tag-package-100373-mc-complete-state-national","tag-product-30083-ap-new-york-city-news-no-weather","tag-product-30085-ap-new-york-state-news-no-weather","tag-product-30598-ap-national-news-report-a-wire","tag-product-31998-ap-online-national-news","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177395","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=177395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}