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2023-01-01 Home Front: WoT
Rookie cop attacked by alleged Islamic extremist with machete near Times Square
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Posted by Frank G 2023-01-01 09:49|| || Front Page|| [11138 views ]  Top

#1 PICTURED: Times Square 'jihadi', 19, who stabbed rookie NYPD cop in head with a machete on New Year's Eve - brother is in US Army
Posted by Skidmark 2023-01-01 10:33||   2023-01-01 10:33|| Front Page Top

#2 Subsequent NY Post article:

The alleged Islamic extremist who attacked multiple NYPD officers with a machete near the New Year’s Eve ball drop in Times Square has been identified as 19-year-old Trevor Bickford — who was already on an FBI watchlist, multiple law enforcement sources said Sunday.

Bickford, from Wells, Maine, is believed to have become a radicalized Muslim in recent years and surfaced on the federal agency’s terrorism “Guardian Watchlist,” even planning to travel to Afghanistan to fight alongside Islamic militants, sources told The Post.

He traveled to New York alone on an Amtrak train and packed camping gear, a diary and a last will and testament before he allegedly pulled off the New Year’s Eve machete attacks, the sources said.

Charges were pending against Bickford Sunday morning. He remained hospitalized at Bellevue, cops said.

A preliminary search by investigators turned up no criminal record for Bickford, police sources said.

But police sources said the FBI in Boston has an open case on him and he is on something called a guardian list because of his radicalization. Bickford’s aunt notified authorities because he apparently made statements to her indicating a desire to go fight in Afghanistan, police sources said.

Sources said it is unclear when Bickford allegedly became radicalized but said he visited a mosque near his home.

Published reports reveal that Bickford appeared to be a typical American teenager before he allegedly became radicalized in the years after sources said his father died of an overdose in 2018.

According to the Portland Press Herald, he made the honor roll as a freshman at Wells High School and was a member of the championship Wells High School Warriors football team.

In 2020, he was among the students earning awards in art, in Bickford’s case for his work in jewelry, Seacoastonline reported at the time.

Sources said it is unclear when Bickford allegedly became radicalized but said he visited a mosque near his home.

Good work on the article, Frank G, and Skidmark, as always, your supplementary link is incredibly useful — lots of solid information there.... and photos, of course. I’ve moved this to Page 1: Home Front: WoT. I s’pose we should be grateful this is the only such story today, instead of a wave of them — even the jihadis must be still recovering from shut-down mode, not thinking about taking advantage of reduced police numbers in the Democrat-run cities.
Posted by trailing wife 2023-01-01 13:04||   2023-01-01 13:04|| Front Page Top

#3 Is the Guardian List the same one that Ray Epps is on.
Posted by Super Hose 2023-01-01 13:22||   2023-01-01 13:22|| Front Page Top

#4 That's not a machete. That's a Kukri. JEEZ, people, let's keep pur knives and forks straight.
Posted by Canuckistan sniper 2023-01-01 14:03||   2023-01-01 14:03|| Front Page Top

#5 ...from the people who call armored personnel carriers and self propelled artillery tanks
Posted by Procopius2k 2023-01-01 15:44||   2023-01-01 15:44|| Front Page Top

#6 Latest from the NY Post:

The 19-year-old alleged Islamic extremist suspected of attacking NYPD cops with a machete on New Year’s Eve penned a disturbing manifesto that urged his family to “please repent to Allah and accept Islam,” police sources told The Post.

Trevor Bickford — a Maine resident who arrived in the Big Apple just days before the attack — carried the handwritten note in his backpack, along with a collection of religious material and $200 while staying at the Bowery Mission in Manhattan, the sources said.

“To my family — specifically, mother — I’m sorry for not having been a good enough son,” the note read, according to a police source.

“I fear greatly that you will not repent to Allah,” it said. “And therefore I hold hope in my heart that a piece of you believes so that you may be taken out to the hellfire.

“To [my brother] Travis. Of anyone I’ve known who I have felt is closest to faith — it’s you,” he allegedly wrote. “Of anyone I’ve ever wanted to accept Islam with me — it’s you. Please repent to Allah and accept Islam. I fear for you.

Bickford’s radical shift put him on the FBI radar, and sources said his name surfaced on an FBI “Guardian Watchlist” before he hopped an Amtrak train and traveled to New York, arriving on Dec. 29, according to sources.

Around 10 p.m. on Saturday he allegedly attacked cops working the Times Square detail, including a rookie on his first assignment, police said.

It is unclear how long Bickford had been staying at the Bowery Mission, but police sources said investigators found a sheath for the machete, a variety of other knives, and a collection of religious material.
Posted by trailing wife 2023-01-01 15:59||   2023-01-01 15:59|| Front Page Top

#7 
Posted by Besoeker 2023-01-01 17:51||   2023-01-01 17:51|| Front Page Top

#8 ^ Love that, B!
Posted by Frank G 2023-01-01 17:53||   2023-01-01 17:53|| Front Page Top

#9 ZERO - 'Radicalized' Times Square Attacker Was On FBI Watchlist.

Boston FBI office was it ?

Posted by Besoeker 2023-01-01 17:56||   2023-01-01 17:56|| Front Page Top

#10 Oh fok, NOT AGAIN !

Posted by Besoeker 2023-01-01 17:58||   2023-01-01 17:58|| Front Page Top

#11 It’s sounding more like everyone is on the watch list. Also there is an active investigation on everyone so that they can’t answer any questions. It was the same with the Stasi. When everyone is under surveillance, proactivity is an impossiblility.
Posted by Super Hose 2023-01-01 18:43||   2023-01-01 18:43|| Front Page Top

#12 /\ They HAVE to say they are doing something. The extent of the 'something' is what is not revealed.
Posted by Besoeker 2023-01-01 18:47||   2023-01-01 18:47|| Front Page Top

#13 FBI too busy with political retribution cases to enforce law.
I have words.....
Posted by Xyz 2023-01-01 19:09||   2023-01-01 19:09|| Front Page Top

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