A man accused of attacking police with a machete near New York’s Times Square on New Year’s Eve is now facing federal terrorism charges.
NEW YORK — A man accused of attacking police with a machete near New York’s Times Square on New Year’s Eve is now facing federal terrorism charges after he became determined to wage jihad against the U.S. government, authorities announced Tuesday.
Bickford, 19, of Wells, Maine, began studying radical Islamic ideology last summer, authorities said.They said he decided in November to wage jihad against U.S. officials and officials of other governments he thought to be anti-Muslim. The complaint said Bickford claimed he didn’t agree with the Taliban’s use of violence against civilians and had no intention of joining al-Qaida.It said he began reading the Quran in May or June and attending mosques, but he didn’t think the mosques were adequate, so he began following imams on YouTube.
They reported that he also began researching the Taliban and expressed interest in traveling to Afghanistan to join the Taliban before buying a crossbow that he planned to bring with him to Afghanistan, the complaint said.
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